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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'
Many many years ago, as a young single touring Europe alone, I arrived on the beautiful Mykonos, met a Greek cutie within a hour off the ferry, only to switch my "affection" within the next hour to his friend -- who became my near-constant tour guide and meal master for a week which ended too soon. My first meal, that night, was a huge, just-caught lobster. He showed me all around the island, and we would join his friends. I especially enjoyed a home meal with a big, noisy group of his relatives. Mostly we ate at small restaurants where he knew the owners, and nearly always al fresco. Sometimes we went into their kitchens, and chose our meal by pointing to the pots of food which looked to us. Now there's a menu! I quickly learned to have a salad and retsina with whatever else we ate at lunch and dinner, and to have an occasional ouzo! Great sunshine-y fun! Perfect, perfect.
Cook the Book: 'Kneadlessly Simple'
Current favorite is rustic sourdough, that is, sourdough lite, not so much tang. It's fav mostly because it's the first venture into yeast breads and using a starter (as opposed to mix 'n quick breads). But I'll be branching out. Pumpernickel is next up. If I can pull that off, it will then be the favorite!
Dinner Tonight: Cold Sesame Noodles with Kimchi
hobcat57, would love to have your recipe if you care to share. The couple of times I bought jarred kimchi put a dent in my desire to aimlessly explore commercial offerings. I am psyched, too, by piccola's comments -- never occurred to me to try to find kimchi made fresh locally. Great idea.
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I can see it would be easier to roast a number of chiles that way, rather than one by one over the burner. But ... doesn't the steam captured by the bowl then drip down onto the stove below? I'm thinking "messy, messy" with condensation dripping down on the stove and, worse, through the small open space (around the burner) to that dark netherland below. ~~~ A small caveat about the wire screen suggestion. I've had wire mesh actually melt (yes, metal wire) when in direct contact with flames. Not all wire mesh will hold up to direct fire. I'd try test flaming before using over a gas burner. FWIW.