: : Menu for Hope : :
*white tablecloth as we prepare you the menu. please scroll down further for menu and posting.*
Hi everyone! I’m sure by now those who frequent other sites have discovered that the Food Blogging Community has put up a Menu for Hope for our readers in the hope that they will kindly give a little hope to the tsunami victims. Already, there are still strong waves flowing through Acheh and there was another earthquake but this time on the island of Java.
The theme of the Menu is food from the affected countries hit by the waves. We have a whole range of food from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Malaysia and others too. It is paired with a selection of wine as well for your selection.
I’m so sorry to say that due to my PC woes, I couldn’t put up any pictures for of the dish that Granny cooked up. Not to mention that I’m very very late at posting it up (10 hrs from the specified time!!). Posting it from work you see. The dish is bamboo shoots cooked in coconut milk. It’s a wonderful dish that can be very rich and yet very delicate too. Here is the recipe :
1/2 kilo of bamboo shoots (no kidding, bamboo shoots are just plain heavy)
1 packet of dry coconut milk powder (no need to dump everything.
should be added based on people’s tastes as too much may seem too
rich)
some belachan @ dried prawn paste (cut a small piece 1 cm x 2 cm)
hot water
1-2 chillis
3-5 peppercorn
salt to taste
Boil the bamboo shoots in water until the color becomes yellow and
bamboo is soft. Throw away the yellow water. If you intend to store
the bamboo shoots in the fridge for cooking the
next day, put it in a
bowl of water and store in fridge.
Pound the belachan, cillis and peppercorn together.
In a bowl, mix coconut milk powder in hot water.
Mix everything into a pot and boil.
Add salt to taste. note : do not add coconut milk all at one go but
enough that you like what u taste.
I hope that you will enjoy it. I will put up the pictures after my PC returns tomorrow night. In the mean time, please do check out the other websites for other delicious meals.
Oh! Nearly forgot! Silly me! For the wine pairings, Lenn and Alder have recommended the following wines (it’s in the menu in case you haven’t notice):
Wild Mushroom Salad
2002 Solaris Carneros Pinot Noir, Carneros, California
2002 Domaine Jean Pierre Diconne Auxey Duresses Rouge, Burgundy, France
Samosas, Mini Summer Rolls, and Khari Poori with Cilantro and Mint Chutney (soup too, if you want to!)
Rihaku Shuzo Nigori “Dreamy Clouds” Tokubetsu Junmai Sake, Shimane
Prefecture, Japan
Everything Else
2000 Trimbach Gewurztraminer, Alsace, France
2003 Waters Crest Riesling, Long Island, New York
Except for the Sake which was priced at USD28, all the other wines are under USD20.
I hope that you do enjoy this menu and if you have it in your heart to give a little something, please do click on the button below. We are channeling all donations to UNICEF.
Have fun cooking it up. I had fun coming up with menu and so did everyone else. Thanks to Pim for getting everyone together and pulling it off. She did a marvelous job (chasing me and a few others) to remind us of the dateline and getting the pictures ready as well as the map. Thanks to the others too for all the marvelous emails zipping through and fro on how to post up the pictures and edit the HTML.
Cheerio all and see you on Friday! That’s when I’m getting my PC back. Yippee!
