Do you have what it takes to snatch the 'Food Meister' title? (Warning: this game may cause a period of procrastination!)
Below is the photo of the side dish I had for lunch which is pretty much anything I could find in our fridge (i.e. pickled ATCHARA i made 2 months ago, tomato, gerkin, bok choy and hotdog ). 😄.
The mystery food are the pickled
round green stuff near the sliced tomato and atchara.
Jamie Oliver, a world famous chef, likes to drown his dishes with oil extracted from these fruit 😱 . There's your major clue !
[Edited: 2011 Jun 23 04:13 - josworld:15287 ]
Reply to this Or to be more specific, Spanish olives stuffed with pimentos? I was just reading about the curing process between transforming olives into edible commodities and pressing them for oil (a complete different process). The earliest documented recipes go back thousands of years and the process has changed little since Cato wrote about it (which means it's likely much older than that because the Romans, while wonderfully adept at institutionalizing the technologies they conquered, weren't particularly all that innovative themselves).
That said, I did have to look up what atchara was.
Reply to this Missed a few rounds already! Sure looks like pimiento-stuffed olives.
What's next?
Reply to this I'm a little concerned that Olives may be considered exotic enough in Australia to be deemed sufficient to outfox this group of food-fans. I may have to scratch that entire nation off my potential future home search 😞
My boy eats (and enjoys them) more than chocolate! Although in fairness that may be due to his acculturation down in Chile and Argentina when he was just a wee toddler.
Incidentally, I once spent some time picking Olives in Palestine.
Anyways, that aside, I can see Hana is keen to get back into it, so without further ado:
Reply to this Okay that was way too easy...the trouble with cashew is that it is so distinctive that once you've seen it you'll never forget. On the other hand if one has never seen it they'll never be able to guess...
Over to you for something
real challenging;-)
Reply to this Yeah - cashew. Easy peasy. Even I knew that one and I've never even
seen it in person (but I've seen photos!).
I've known people to consider olives to be "American" food because they had never eaten them previously elsewhere. So in certain areas of the world it does have that exotic cache.
Anyhow, up for the next challenge!
Reply to this Well, too bad, it's common here. I can finish like 1 cup of roasted cashew in half an hour.
There's even a local riddle about it that translates into: "One princess, sitting on a teacup."
Okay, try this one. It's thought-provoking enough.
(I hope, because it's the only one I have access to in our fridge now.) Well, probably not for Johanna. 😉
Reply to this Ginger root?
See, part of me hopes I'm wrong because if I'm up next I know that all I have access too is going to be easy for Jason. It's like a battle of the hemispheres!
Reply to this Yes it is, Stephanie. 😊
That was the hardest I could come up with at 3am.
What do you have for us next?
[Edited: 2011 Jun 23 18:55 - fateundermined:153556 ]
Reply to this 3am! Goodness. 3pm here. I'm thinking this one won't be that difficult, but... you never know.
Reply to this I turn my back and you're already on to the next one....This one is harder than the ginger, cos I had to double-check, but I'm going with peanuts.
Incidentally they eat these virtually raw in Malawi, taste like little potatoes, which just goes to reinforce the fact that they similarly grow under the ground.
Reply to this Peanuts.
Aside from the usual roasted ones and sugar-/honey-glazed or roasted, it's also prepared here as boiled, fried in oil, fried with garlic ("adobo") or chillies, "brittle" (solidified in caramel), or made into a paste and added into an oxtail-meat-vegetable stew (kare-kare).
Reply to this Hopefully you can get this one before the sun comes up!
Reply to this Coffee beans?
[Edited: 2011 Jun 23 19:35 - fateundermined:153556 ]
Reply to this No. And I'm so glad this one wasn't guessed immediately - this game is BACK ON 😱
Reply to this But not for long! Because that has the distinctive look of pepper (and by that I mean the fruiting berries from which black pepper is produced).
Piper nigrum - "peppercorn rent" and all that goodness.
Reply to this Pepper is right.
I'd never heard the phrase "peppercorn rent" until I watched the BBC's Spice Trail series...where did you first hear it;-)
Anyway, that's it! Next time I post it will be un-guessable!
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