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A Lebanese food, which is essentially hummus made with eggplant, rather than chickpeas. Common ingredients are mashed eggplant, olive oil, lemon juice, and other seasonings. It is consumed in a similar way as hummus – as a dip, or spread on bread. I was looking for hummus in Costco, and found some…
Not surprisingly, it’s beef. Specifically, it’s “cube steak,” which is round or sirloin that’s flattened by pounding it with a meat tenderizer. So it’s not a “natural” cut of beef – it’s processed a bit . I’ve eaten this before, but it didn’t really taste like beef to me. I sort of thought it was…
A family of vegetables. The most common members are: These are “true vegetables,” unlike other foods such as corn, potatoes, and peas which people think are vegetables but actually fall into other categories . Basically, when a nutritionist says, “Eat more green, leafy vegetables,” these are the…
This is clearly not traditional Indian dal, but it is a version I tried that prompted me to look it up. I still love this particular flavor, but Costco stopped carrying it, and I can’t find it anywhere else. The Asian name for split legumes, or for soups made from these. Split pea soup, for…
This is the process of combing two fluid substances of different thicknesses together my inserting a spoon into the bottom of the heavier mixture, pulling some to the top and over the lighter mixture. I found an article which explained it: Folding is a very precise term in cooking and baking. It…
This is an organ found in birds and some other creatures. It’s a type of “pre-stomach” that grinds food, since birds don’t have teeth. Some birds actually swallow stones which stay resident in their gizzards to help break food down. They are prepared as food all around the world. They are a tough,…
This is just a submarine sandwich by another name, it turns out. This seems to be a regional New York term, dating from the 1930s . It’s not related to what’s in the sandwich, just the general concept of a long, cylindrical roll. There was a NY Times Connections puzzle which grouped the words “bun,”…
This specifically refers to the mix of spices in Indian food. However, there is also idiomatic usage meaning “mixture” or “co-mingling.” In shortest-history-india, it was used idiomatically twice: Not officially recognized by also becoming ubiquitous is “Hinglish” – a masala of Hindi and English….