The Way Yan Style #Garlic #Ginger

The Way Yan Style #Garlic #Ginger
Crushed How too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRrsifp2FpA&list=PLw9ytrb_idpPl01K7jslphg1Jp-J70Xqz

Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves

Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves
Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango ;Srzgarakarika

Nightshade cloves, hemlock groves, the cauldron starts to boil
-Elvenking (Witches Gather)

Originally shared by Jon “the chef” Hole

Cloves 丁香, كبش قرنفل, लौंग, Céngké, கிராம்பு
Used plant part
Flower buds. The buds are harvested shortly before the flower would open.
Sensory qual­ity
Strong­ly aro­matic and very inten­sive fra­grance; fiery and burn­ing taste.

Etymology
The name clove, as well as Spanish clavo, Catalan clau, Por­tuguese cravinho and Tagalog clovas, ulti­mately derives from Latin clavus nail (be­cause of shape resem­blance).

The word made its way into English via Old French clou.
The word clove is related to the verb cleave (which is what you can do with a nail) and therefore also to clove as in a clove of garlic.

Cloves are named nail spice in other languages, too; for example, take Russian gvozdika [гвоздика] which comes from gvozd’ [гвоздь] nail.

Cloves are an ancient spice and, because of their exceptional aromatic strength, have always been held in high esteem by cooks in Europe, Northern Africa the greater part of Asia.

Trade between the clove island Ternate and Imperial China goes back at least to the Han dynasty, some 2500 years ago; a much older archeo­logigal find at an Meso­potamian site in Northern Syria is of doubtful nature.

In China, cloves were not only used for cooking but also for deodorization; anyone having an audience with the Han emperor had to chew cloves to prevent any undesired smell.
Arab traders brought cloves to Europe in in late antiquity; they were very expensive.

The clove is the only spice that is smoked more than eaten.
You are probably familiar with the sweet odor of kretek, the clove cigarettes from Indonesia.
More than half the world's clove production is ground with tobacco to make kretek.

When the Euro­peans, in the Age of Ex­plora­tion, finally found the clove pro­ducing islands, they took enor­mous inter­est in securing a constant spice supply:
The few tourists visiting the small island of Ternate (9 km dia­meter) will be surprised to find crumbling remnants of about 10 fortresses, built by Portuguese, Spanish, British and finally Dutch soldiers in the 16.th and early 17.th century.
During all of the 17.th century, the Dutch kept an effective monopoly in the clove trade, which guaranteed high profits to them.

It is impossible to mention all cuisines where cloves are used; they are much loved by the Chinese, play an important rôle in Sri Lankan cooking, are extensively used in the Moghul cuisine of Northern India (see black cumin), enjoy high popularity in the Middle East and many Arab countries and are a common spice in Northern Africa.

In all these countries, they are preferred for meat dishes; frequently, rice is aromatized with a few cloves.

In Ethiopia, coffee is often roasted together with some cloves in the so-called coffee ceremony.

Cloves have less use in Europe, where their strong flavour is not so much appreciated.
They are much used for special types of sweets or sweet breads, but especially for stewed fruits (together with cinnamon).
Plain rice is often flavoured one or two cloves.
In France, cloves often go into long-simmered meat stews or hearty meat broths.

In England, they are most popular in pickles.

Many spice mixtures contain cloves. They form an essential part in the Chinese five spice powder.

The taste of the famous Wor­cester­shire sauce (also spelled Wor­cester), an Indo-British con­tribu­tion to inter­national cuisine, is markedly domi­nated by clove aroma.

The sauce is com­posed of several spices (besides cloves, garlic, tamarind, paprika or chiles are most fre­quent­ly found), fish extract, soy sauce, treacle, vinegar (or lemon juice) and salt.

Folklore says that sucking on two whole Cloves without chewing or swallowing them helps to curb the desire for alcohol

Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango Srzgarakarika

#Spices #Cloves

C u r t i s M a y f i e l d - F r e d d i e ' s D e a d 1972 Redux

C u r t i s M a y f i e l d - F r e d d i e ' s D e a d 1972 Redux
It was the first single from his 1972 soundtrack album for the film
Super Fly
From the
Pied Piper London
Deep House Nu-Jazz Pioneer the Pied Piper London
Maverick Producer, Arranger, DJ, Songwriter, Composer, Drummer, Percussionist, Audio Engineer, Remixer, Editor, Multi-Instrumentalist
(Jamming circa. 1983)
(DEEP HOUSE, HOUSE, NU-JAZZ, NU-FUNK, NU-DISCO, AMBIENTAL

*An English judge had said so after the Jacobites’ great defeat at Culloden in 1746; a piper was a fighter like the rest, and his music was his weapon*

On U #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/funkingham/f-r-e-d-d-i-e-s-d-e-a-d-pied-piper-redux

Coffee Jelly is a popular jelly dessert in Japan.

Coffee Jelly is a popular jelly dessert in Japan. It is a mix of an agar jelly with sweetened coffee, and was developed in the Taishō period (1912–1926).

It is often cut into cubes and served in a variety of dessert dishes and beverages.
Cubes of coffee jelly are sometimes added to milkshakes, at the bottom of an ice cream float, or to garnish an ice cream sundae.
Coffee jelly is often added to a cup of hot or iced coffee, with cream and gum syrup added. Condensed milk is poured over cubes of chilled coffee jelly in a bowl.

Coffee jelly can be made using instant mix or from scratch. It is served in restaurants and cafés, and is sometimes a part of students' lunches served at public schools in Japan.

#CoffeeTime

Image credit : https://goo.gl/JIhZJj

Nandos Lunch Nando's is an international casual dining restaurant chain originating from South Africa, with a...

Nandos Lunch Nando's is an international casual dining restaurant chain originating from South Africa, with a Mozambican/Portuguese theme.
Founded in 1987, Nando's operates about 1,000 outlets in 30 countries.

Nando's specialises in chicken dishes with lemon and herb, mango and lime, medium, hot, extra hot or extra extra hot piri-piri marinades

The restaurant was founded in 1987 in the Johannesburg suburb Rosettenville when Portuguese-born audio engineer Fernando Duarte took his entrepreneur friend Robert Brozin to a Portuguese takeaway called Chickenland for a meal.

After trying the chicken – cooked in piri piri, a chilli sauce originating in Mozambique – they bought the restaurant for about 80,000 Rand (equivalent of about £25,000 at the time).

They renamed the restaurant Nando's, after Fernando. After two years the restaurant had four outlets – three in Johannesburg and one in Portugal.
By 2013, around 1,000 Nando's branches were located in 35 countries.

In 2010, Advertising Age magazine named Nando's as one of the world's top 30 hottest marketing brands.
As of July 2014, the Nando's restaurant group is ultimately owned by South African businessman Dick Enthoven and his family.

Enthoven's son, Robby Enthoven, was responsible for expanding the Nando's chain in the United Kingdom.
#Nandos

#CinematicFunk on a Friday on U #SoundCloud

#CinematicFunk on a Friday on U #SoundCloud
from Alex.
Huge tones and cinematic feel, with some great energy as well
#Blaxploitation
https://soundcloud.com/alex-cortiz/funk-machine

Know your Onions ?

Know your Onions ?
The onion plant (Allium cepa) is unknown in the wild but has been grown and selectively bred in cultivation for at least 7,000 years.

The ancient Egyptians worshipped it
believing its spherical shape and concentric rings symbolized eternal life.
Onions were even used in Egyptian burials, as evidenced by onion traces being found in the eye sockets of Ramesses IV.

The Onion Futures Act passed in 1958, bans the trading of futures contracts on onions in the United States.
This prohibition came into force after farmers complained about alleged market manipulation by Sam Seigel and Vincent Kosuga at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange two years earlier.
The subsequent investigation provided economists with a unique case study into the effects of futures trading on agricultural prices. The act remains in effect as of 2013.

Great post +Lacerant Plainer thanks
#knowyouronions #onions

Originally shared by Lacerant Plainer

The Onion :  The onion (Allium cepa) is used as a vegetable and is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The humble Onion has been cultivated and modified by humans for over 5000 years.  Onions have been used for their medicinal properties and in food down the ages.

What makes you cry when cutting an Onion? : The component in an onion that makes your eyes water is called lachrymatory factor, from Latin lacrima, or “tear.” (How appropriate is that!) Lachrymatory factor irritates the eyes and stimulate the tear glands to produce tears, much like the action of a tear gas. Onions are rich in two health-benefiting compounds: flavonoids and sulfur-containing compounds. Flavonoids are potential antioxidants that could protect us against cancer, heart disease, and aging. They are often found at high concentrations in the skins and outer layers of onions with yellow or brown color (but some are masked by red or purple color). http://goo.gl/T7mPtI

Tear-free (GM) onions have been developed by Crop & Food Research (NZ) and in Japan : As a matter of fact, inhibiting lachrymatory-factor synthase would not only stop onions from making your eyes water, but would also increase the yield of thiosulfinate because all the sulfur compounds released from onions will be converted into thiosulfinate. So the onions lacking lachrymatory-factor synthase activity would be tear-free but retain that odor and flavor distinct to fresh onions. http://goo.gl/T7mPtI

How temperature affects potency : When temperatures drop, reactions take place more slowly because all the molecules have less energy. So, chilling onions in the fridge before chopping them reduces the amount of syn-propanethial-S-oxide that can be produced. Freezing the onions works even better, in fact it completely disables the enzyme, although it might make chopping a bit more challenging. http://goo.gl/zqhNxL

Common myths : Powering an Ipod with an onion, rubbing your hands with stainless steel reduces the smell of onions (This is a commonly held belief, but there is no scientific evidence to support it, though one can theorize why it may happen). Rub an onion on your foot and you can smell it 30 minutes later....This is definitely not true. Can onions reduce the smell of fresh paint (fumes)? .... there is some truth in this, though part of it is psychological.

Medicinal uses : Onions have been shown to improve cardiovascular health, blood sugar lowering abilities and blood thinning properties.

Smelly Chemicals (The organic Chemist's view) : http://goo.gl/KuEzqE

Wikipedia link : http://goo.gl/YfZ9yV (link to main pic on left).
PBS link: http://goo.gl/RAErfT

Additional reference: academics.hamilton.edu/foodforthought/our_research_files/allium.pdf

A little bit of history : http://goo.gl/S0HuA1

Pic credit for pic on right: http://goo.gl/vAXA8t

#onion #science  

Coffee Time Two Sous per Dish, Sugar Included 1689 ( Photo )

Coffee Time Two Sous per Dish, Sugar Included 1689 ( Photo )
The discovery of coffee has enlarged the realm of illusion and given more promise to hope Isid Bourdon

Coffee keeps, so to say, the balance between bodily and spiritual nourishment Emile Souvestre (1806–1854)

An old Bourbon proverb "To an old man a cup of coffee is like the door post of an old house—it sustains and strengthens him."

"What first made coffee-houses suspicious to those in authority, however, is their true resource—the advantages they offer for meeting one's kind, for social converse and the contemplation of life.
Hence it must be that they have so happy a tact for locality.

They seek shade, pleasant corners, open squares, the prospect of water or wide landscapes.
In Constantinople they enjoy an infinite choice of site, so huge is the extent of that city, so broken by hill and sea, so varied in its spectacle of life.
The commonest type of city coffee-room looks out upon the passing world from under a grape-vine or a climbing wistaria.
Credit WILLIAM H. UKERS, M.A. 1922

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch
― Orson Welles

Originally shared by Jon “the chef” Hole

The Whole Duty of a Woman 1737 by William Kenrick

Dripping Pudding

"Make a good Batter as for Pancakes, put it in a hot Toss-pan over the Fire with a Bit of Butter to fry the Bottom a little, then put the Pan and Batter under a Shoulder of Mutton instead of a Dripping-pan, keeping frequently shaking it by the Handle and it will be light and savoury and fit to take up when your Mutton is enough; then turn it in a Dish, and serve it hot."

It will come as no surprise that historically batter is a common base for a wide range of food stuffs in the British kitchen.
Batter was boiled in a cloth to produce puddings, used to produce various fritter or made into pancakes.
It is this latter batter that is essentially the basis of the Yorkshire Pudding. Many early historical recipes produce products that are very similar to the Yorkshire Pudding

William Kenrick (c. 1725 – 10 June 1779) was an English novelist, playwright, translator and satirist, who spent much of his career libelling and lampooning his fellow writers. #Satire

Rowan Jelly Flavour of

Rowan Jelly Flavour of
*Intensely woody Fruits of the forest sweetness
Bitter Orange marmalade earthy bitterness
Red currant sweetness Vodka wormwood like bitters
Plumy plum skin
Dark chocolate bitter*


and i think a dash of Angostura bitters that a be the mix more or less


Originally shared by Jon “the chef” Hole

Rowan Jelly "Rowan is the tree of power, causing life and magic to flower."
Common name Mountain Ash
Uses: The hard pale brown wood of the rowan was used to make bows in the middle ages, also used for tool handles, bowls and plates and for general woodcraft.
The berries were used to make rowan jelly which was eaten with meat and helped prevent gout.

Containing high concentrations of Vitamin C, the berries were also ingested to cure scurvy

A rowan wand or walking stick will protect you from being harmed on a journey and bring spiritual enlightenment along your path.

Scottish tradition did not allow for the use of Rowan wood for any other purpose than ritual.

Rowan Jelly
4 lb Rowan berries, washed and stalks removed
3 lb Crab apples, quartered
1 lb Sugar for each pint juice

Preparation:
Put all the fruit in a large preserving pan and barely cover with water. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 20 minutes or until the fruit is soft. Allow to drip through a jelly bag overnight

Measure the juice and weigh out the correct amount of sugar. Add the juice and sugar to the cleaned preserving pan, and simmer over a low heat for 10 minutes until the sugar has dissolved.

Increase the heat and cook at a full rolling boil for 5 minutes, then test for a set. 104 C
When the jelly has reached setting point, pot into hot, sterilized jars, seal and label.

Rowan Jelly, has a unique bitter/sweet flavor is traditionally served with game especially venison but it is a delicious accompaniment to any meats and poultry.Cold or hot

Warning Berries are poison when raw cooking destroys poison.

Rowan's name means "a secret" or "to whisper" and shares it's origin with rune.

"Rowan is not to be forgotten, set aside, or ignored.
She is the power within you to call forth your elegance and mastery of your logical mind as it intermingles with your intuitive powers.
She calls you into the path of future planning, use of symbology, and talismans to form order to your designs.

Let this time be the time you put your dreams into a sequence of architectural designs.
Perform an act of accomplishment for each step of your unfolding plan.

Use your act as a building block to bring your dreams to fruition. Trusting your intuition and logical intelligence will give you insights for more planning.
Let prophetic insights assist you."

The Faces of WomanSpirit
A Celtic Oracle of Avalon
by Katherine Torres, Ph.D.

Picture Jon Hole #Rowan