Author: doodledweller
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Salt Cured Cod Roe
Salt cured fish roe is appreciated across the world for centuries. It is bottarga in Italy and surrounding regions, karasumi in Japan, eoran in Korea, and wuyutsu in Taiwan. It is considered a delicacy and correspondingly expensive. Making salt cured fish roe is not difficult, but of course, provided that you have access to unprocessed…
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Fermented Tofu
During the 2nd century BCE when soybean was being fermented, it was also made into curds, aka tofu. Tofu, then being fermented, was known as stinky tofu. As it ages, fermented tofu becomes pungent, fruity, and cheesy. Unlike fermented soybean, fermented tofu has not gained world-wide popularity, however remains a staple food in China. Doufu-ru,…
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Fermented Soybean
Fermented soybean originated from China during the 2nd century BCE. By the year 200 CE, it had become a staple condiment. Though losing its place to soy sauce by the year 1600 in China, thanks to Buddhist monks, its popularity had spread across East and Southeast Asia and westward as far as North East India.…
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Fall Footage
**************************************** **************************************** October 11th is Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Dance Reel by Sewam Dance ***Pictures taken at Filoli Garden
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Keep It Classified
In high school, I dated a tall and handsome boy from Pakistan. He was well-spoken and soft-spoken, studious and focused. He knew that one day, he was going to become a doctor, a plastic surgeon. We got along well, but I knew it couldn’t amount to much. I was just 17; the world was too…
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Salt Cured
To preserve fresh fish by fermenting it with carbohydrates has been a long-time tradition for both Northern Europe and Asia regions. The original form of sushi was narezushi, made with rice and carp. As sushi means to sour, bacteria digests rice to produce acids to not only protect the fish against spoilage, but also to…
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Edible Molds
I wanted to learn about growing molds so that I could ferment soybean. A basic white rice mold, called Kōji Rice, can be purchased online to make Miso. But in order to make other types of fermented soybean, I needed to delve deeper. For example, sweet rice molds are used to make Vietnamese fermented soybean,…
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Late Summer
I split the fig in twomarveled at the milky sap dripping, smearing this fertile womb these tiny flowers, reddened pilgrims swimming to the motherland. I slid my fingers into the slit softly tender, it tugged against my skin. I stuffed it behind my lips its flesh spread open, yielding under my teeth. I thought of how this was once hard, green until a wasp came inside inseminated it a late summer sweetness.
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Being Sick
Recently, I had Covid. My symptoms were not any different than ones from a cold, but I knew for sure because my kid tested positive. The first day, my throat started to close and my body ached. So I took pain medication and carried on with my daily tasks. One way to figure out how…
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Full Moon
Want to see LunaAn Autumn Night has fallenHalf a lifetime’s come evenThe cinnamon has ripenAnd I’ve been waitin’for the banyan tree’s invitationto meet a friend or drown in sadnesssee winds and clouds to float with joyAugust’s Full Moon,Lean on me and laugh all the way down.–Translated from Tản Đà Every full moon is special, but August’s full moon,…
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