Learning to Cook and Other Things

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Have you heard anything about vegetable s used as musical instruments? Cool! I say if you don't want to eat them, play them instead, right? I think this is one terrific and novel way of promoting healthy eating through vegetables. I am not trivializing this now. Because, seriously, there's one orchestra based in Vienna, Austria, considered Europe's classical music capital. And they are known as the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra. "The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetable sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly stewed listening habits putting focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens". So if you're a vegetarian and

It's been quite awhile that we cooked this yellow fin tuna dish with tamarind sauce and kuki. Kuki is more popularly known as miso. And so I bought miso in accordance with my plan to cook this dish. Miso or kuki which was how it was called back in the Japanese Edo period, is a "traditional Japanese food produced by fermenting rice, barley and/or soybeans, with salt and the fungus kojikin. (the most typical miso is made with soy.)" So I bought around ten grams. Wikipedia further informs us that during "the Muromachi era, Buddhist monks discovered that soybeans could be ground into a paste, spawning new cooking methods where miso was used to flavor other foods." And on to my wet market trip, I got 4 large slices of yellow fin tuna. It looked so fresh I couldn't resist the temptation. Yellow fin, is of the tropics, usually three 12-inch rulers long and to me delectably flavored. In fact a more superior variety is used to prepare sashimi. In fact I hea

For breakfast variation eats, I have been preparing this french bread slices topped with lots of grated garlic, diced fresh tomatoes, olive oil, freshly milled black pepper, mozzarella cheese, and some fresh basil, and then heating it in the breakfast oven since 5 years ago. That was when I knew very little about cooking and food preparation. Duh! Now, I realize it is something similar to the Italian's bruschetta. According to Wikipedia bruschetta is: "is a food whose origin dates to at least the 15th century from central Italy . It consists of grilled bread rubbed with garlic and topped with extra-virgin olive oil , salt and pepper. Variations may include toppings of spicy red pepper , tomato , vegetables, beans, cured meat, and/or cheese ; the most popular American recipe involves basil , fresh mozzarella , and tomato. Bruschetta is usually served as a snack or appetizer . In Italy, Bruschetta is often prepared using a brustolina grill. In Tuscany , bruschetta is called

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I have not been around lately. My time has been consumed with "tweaking my blog templates ( as if) :-) My absence also was due to inaccessibility to a computer. I get to have 'access' at around 11:00 in the evening and by that time I am all exhausted to do my posting. But I am almost back. Thanks to all of you.