Daily food for thought + other stuff 11/05/2013
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Ligurian Farinata (Savory Italian Pancake or Flatbread) – 112403 – Recipezaar
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Aji Criollo (Ecuadorian Hot Sauce) : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz
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What’s Old is New Again – a look at the Corpse Reviver (a fave of mine)
“”This is one of my favorite drinks on the planet,” he says. He’s talking about Corpse Reviver #2, which sounds like a name for a punch a college kid would pre-funk with before seeing the latest zombie flick.\n\nApparently I don’t know the history of my drinks. The original version, Corpse Reviver # 1 was a common drink from the 20′3 and 30’s and is a combination of brandy and Calvados and sweet vermouth. It was consumed as a morning drink, after a night out and before the next night out, said Toby.\n\nCorpse Reviver #2 is made of gin, Kina Lillet, cointreau and lemon juice. It’s quite incredible, and that’s not just the alcohol talking. It’s so fresh, almost powdery. The Lillet tastes a little dusty. The flavor is warming, herbal, citrus-y and dare I say it, tasting slightly of bubble gum?”
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Breakfast Patties Recipe at Epicurious.com
Vegan breakfast recipe from Morgan Spurlock’s wife Alex – looks lovely!
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Low Fat Vegan Black Bean Brownies Recipe | | HappyHerbivore.com
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Healthy. Happy. Life.: Sweet Potato Tofu Hash. Vegan Comfort Food.
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Another Challenge for Ethical Eating – Plants Want to Live, Too – NYTimes.com
Just because we humans can’t hear them doesn’t mean plants don’t howl. Some of the compounds that plants generate in response to insect mastication — their feedback, you might say — are volatile chemicals that serve as cries for help. Such airborne alarm calls have been shown to attract both large predatory insects like dragon flies, which delight in caterpillar meat, and tiny parasitic insects, which can infect a caterpillar and destroy it from within.
Enemies of the plant’s enemies are not the only ones to tune into the emergency broadcast. “Some of these cues, some of these volatiles that are released when a focal plant is damaged,” said Richard Karban of the University of California, Davis, “cause other plants of the same species, or even of another species, to likewise become more resistant to herbivores.”
Yes, it’s best to nip trouble in the bud.
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Visiting NOLA from NYC, Need Must Eat Spots – New Orleans – Chowhound
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Recipe – Roasted Sweet Potato Salad With Black Beans and Chili Dressing – NYTimes.com
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The Pioneer Woman Cooks: hot crash potatoes
We’ve been making our own variations of these, calling them hot smashed potatoes. Funny that others have a similar name – or maybe not and I’m just that easily amused 🙂
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