Fusion Cuisine Anyone?

[katydidthat]

Tonight, I'm cooking san choy bow ... pork mince cooked with soy sauce and served in lettuce cups ... with a topping of sour cream or yoghurt and fried potatoes on the side.  

When we were kids, we liked having dhall with fresh white bread and butter to dip in ... this was well before the concept of "fusion".  

How do you adapt recipes from other cultures?  

[poddster]

Katy, I fear that in the not to distant future we will be forced into "Fission Cuisine"

[katydidthat]

Well, I'd better make sure I enjoy my fusion cuisine while I can.

[poddster]

A geiger counter will soon be a normal kitchen utensil soon

[katydidthat]

Well, I cooked pork mince with garlic, and onion, and chopped tomato, and soy sauce.  I put cos lettuce leaves in cold water to crisp up.  I fried leftover cooked potato and asparagus stalks and onion.  

I served the mince mix on lettuce leaves, topped with sour cream, accompanied by fried potatoes and onions and asparagus.  

[poddster]

Did you run the geiger counter over it before serving? 🙂

[poddster]

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[just_me_karen]

Hi katy, I have peanut butter on toasted focaccia ... that's basic fusion 🙂

did the sour cream go ok with the soy?

[katydidthat]

Yes, it did, Karen, and I used a lot of soy.  

I remember once, being in a Thai restaurant and having this really HOT curry.  I asked if there was anything I could add to it (like you add raita to Indian curries), and I was told in no uncertain terms that the Thai people did NOT add anything like that. 

However, if I cook hot Thai food at home, I do add yoghurt.  

Another thing we used to eat as kids was leftover Bolognaise sauce on buttered toast.  

[just_me_karen]

Sounds good, Katy 🙂

Back in the olden days when I lived in the NT bush, my good friends were English, Maori, Aboriginal and Thai so we often combined our recipes. For example, fish stuffed with aboriginal bush herbs, chili, lemon grass and wrapped in paper bark to steam on a camp fire on an isolated beach. 

My English friend was a brilliant English cook and he'd often cook us a full roast dinner in the camp oven 🙂 One time he roasted a chook wrapped in foil, tied to the engine while we drove thru the bush, scrumptious!