Update: TLMW went rogue and made this one instead. It was amazing – photo below, though it obviously doesn’t do justice as to how good it tasted! Crash hot spaggy bol, as the Aussies say.
TLMW passed on this recipe. Must make! Had a delicious version at Stella’s a while back. Always amazing how the simple things can be messed up so easily. And delightful when they aren’t.
© 2012 Proper Manky
TLMW points out an article commenting on the recent Supreme Court ruling that had some raise the question what would stop a government that can make you buy health insurance from also making you buy healthy vegetables? Anyway, and of more supreme importance here, the article also includes THE recipes to prepare actually edible broccoli even for those by and large not terribly keen on it.
[…] Broccoli is a bad thing only when it is badly done. The truth is that broccoli should always be either roasted or pureed, in the French style, and is so delicious done either way that, if you tasted it, you would not just tolerate but demand government-mandated broccoli.
More cooking details at the link above. Update: my mother made the roasted version and loved it!
This article covers recent research in The Journal of the American Medical Association suggesting
that among the bad decisions we can make to maintain our weight is exactly what the government and medical organizations like the American Heart Association have been telling us to do: eat low-fat, carbohydrate-rich diets, even if those diets include whole grains and fruits and vegetables.
I guess it’s back to the lion and rabbit diet … Another factor to consider, as TLMW points out, is that gut flora can be associated with obesity which may offer ways to help control food intake.
Source: Washington Post
Interesting throughout:
For owners of Vietnamese restaurants in the area, Hispanic workers have become vital to the eateries’ survival. Vietnamese refugees who arrived in the 1970s after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 are retiring. It is hard to find a chef now — a Vietnamese chef,” said Thi Quach, owner of Viet Taste. “Most young Vietnamese people now, they tend to stay in school and they do professional jobs, so they don’t want to stay in the kitchen, and the older generation are getting old already.
Have noticed a similar trend in Asian eateries in the Phoenix area, e.g. at Shimogamo in Chandler with its outstanding Hispanic itamae.
