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The greatest luxury of the sensation of eating is sometimes simplicity
in this thread please share what to you is a very simple thing you love to eat and prepare that has a taste that seems, pure, essential... a haiku in food.
Reducing food to that level sometimes makes the actual quality of the ingrediants and how it's prepared a little more imporant... so for instance if it's a vegetable you'd want to share how you know when it's "ready", a fruit how you know it is perfectly ripe, a meat how you know if it's perfectly marbled, a fish how you know it is perfectly fresh... or a spice how you know it is the highest quality.
An elaborite dish however cunningly prepared with mediocre ingredients may cover some sins and be edible and even enjoyable, but becomes as tasty as a TV dinner when held in comparison with a simple dish of ingredients that are the highest quality.
in this thread please share what to you is a very simple thing you love to eat and prepare that has a taste that seems, pure, essential... a haiku in food.
Reducing food to that level sometimes makes the actual quality of the ingrediants and how it's prepared a little more imporant... so for instance if it's a vegetable you'd want to share how you know when it's "ready", a fruit how you know it is perfectly ripe, a meat how you know if it's perfectly marbled, a fish how you know it is perfectly fresh... or a spice how you know it is the highest quality.
An elaborite dish however cunningly prepared with mediocre ingredients may cover some sins and be edible and even enjoyable, but becomes as tasty as a TV dinner when held in comparison with a simple dish of ingredients that are the highest quality.
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Re: Minimalist Food
Fri, August 18, 2006 - 10:02 PMsteamed fish.
drizzled with ginger, lime juice, soy, and sesame oil.
chopped scallions and cilantro if you like.
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Re: Minimalist Food
Mon, August 21, 2006 - 10:37 AMwhat andy said :D
and quinoa with tamari & toasted sesame seeds -
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Re: Minimalist Food
Mon, August 21, 2006 - 12:06 PMSushi is the ultimate in minimalist food - but I don't even try to attempt it at home beyond maki rolls.
Minimalist foods that I can do at home [not all are Asian style]:
Corn on the cob, fresh from the field, grilled in husk. In Bali they'd put a chile butter on that was wonderful.
Pasta Cruda: Tomatoes, basil or tarragon, olive oil, parmesan. If the ingredients are fresh this is one of the best pasta dishes you can make [and a friend from Bologna says his mom refuses to ever put more than three ingredients in a pasta dish, and she is horrified at what we do to spaghetti in the west].
Fresh eggplant sauteed in miso.
Ocean fish seasoned with sea salt and cracked pepper and grilled. -
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Re: Minimalist Food
Wed, August 23, 2006 - 12:31 PMFrozen sheefish carved off with an ulu into slightly curved pieces, dipped in seal oil with soy sauce
Bowhead muktuk with a sprinkle of salt
Beluga muktuk with a little squirt of yellow mustard
It is little wonder that Inupiat and Yup'ik people in Alaska go ape for sushi.
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Re: Minimalist Food
Wed, August 23, 2006 - 7:35 PMthick-cut wild salmon
olive oiled and salted skin
hot cast iron skillet
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steamed short grain white rice
five bright green broccoli florets
three drops of shoyu
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:-)
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Re: Minimalist Food
Sat, August 26, 2006 - 5:48 AMOne bowl of Wheatena breakfast cereal, thick and hot, made with a dash of soy sauce in the water as it reduces.
drizzle with seseme oil and stir
top with cold pickled snow cabbage.
