Celebrate potatoes! 21 November 2007 1:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,breakfast,eating,garden,nepal,pictures,tea,travel , add a commentSo writing yesterday’s post about my adventures in dal bhaat has me started on the subject of what I ate in Nepal, and while I’m in that happy head space, I’d like to discuss a little food revelation I had on that trip. It happened like this: when we got back to Kathmandu after the trek and I had to get back into making my own food decisions instead of eating whatever the Sherpas put in front of me, I discovered that I was a little sick of eggs, which had featured fairly prominently in a lot of our meals on trek. Whoa.
As I’ve written before, I love eggs. But faced with the Hotel Utse’s breakfast menu, I realized that what I really wanted was (more…)
Recipe-in-progress: translating Nepali dal bhaat to my Oregon kitchen. 20 November 2007 2:09 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,nepal,pictures,recipes,travel,vegan,vegetarian , 4 commentsFirst things first, some definitions: dal means lentils, or really any kind of dried pulses, and bhaat means cooked rice (as opposed to rice plants growing in a field, or just the grains: green rice, brown rice, hulled rice, or rice milled to turn pretty white but not yet cooked). Put them together into dal bhaat and you have white rice with a thin lentil stew (almost a soup), and it is just about synonymous with food in Nepal. It is superfood and comfort food all at once, and it is delicious. We did not eat it
Ten days ago, my mom emailed me these recipes, and by last Friday, when I realized it had been almost two weeks since my last dal bhaat, I decided I had better give it a shot, if only to avoid going into withdrawal. Here’s how it went. (more…)
In case you missed it: New York magazine on female chefs and more (including Janeane Garofalo, aw yeah). 19 November 2007 2:06 pm
Posted by Tracy in : feminism,interviews,Morning Glory,news,restaurants,vegetarianism,work , 1 comment so farWoo! Two posts in one day! I’m out of control! (Although actually, this is just a cunning ploy to make up for having missed last Wednesday’s post, and as soon as you’re not looking I’ll sneakily change the date on this entry to make it look like I’m not a flaky slackerbeast, but I digress. Anyway.)
For some reason, none of the food blogs on my long-neglected Google Reader mentioned New York magazine’s October 21 piece on the city’s few female top chefs, “A Woman’s Place?”; I read about it on Salon’s Broadsheet. But whatever; I’m just glad I found it. Food (especially cooking) and gender? I accept! (more…)
Monkey Monday: now with actual monkeys!
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,Kathmandu,monkeys,nepal,pictures,seasonality,travel,vegetarian , add a commentSee? On the roof of the Patan Museum, even:
Nepalis were always pretty entertained by how excited we Western tourists got whenever we saw monkeys, except when they were busy warning us not to get too close. Apparently monkeys have been known to snatch purses, but that’s nothing compared to the trouble caused by monkey bites, or so I’m told. (New Delhi’s monkey trouble even made the New York Times last week!) We were all pretty happy to have avoided first-hand experience of all that. Anyway, (more…)
Foto Friday: Hiranayavarna Mahavihar (the Golden Temple), Patan (Lalitpur), Nepal 16 November 2007 1:57 pm
Posted by Tracy in : monkeys,nepal,pictures,travel , 1 comment so farMy photos from the Nepal trip are still pretty much entirely out of control: they are mostly uploaded to my Flickr but for now they are also mostly locked until I can give them all captions and correct their time stamps somewhat, and also I doubt that anyone has the energy to see all 1000+ of them at once anyway (I know I don’t!) But this morning I worked on a particularly nice little set, taken at the Golden Temple in Patan (full Nepali names in the title of this post), and I thought I’d share them here for Foto Friday. (more…)
