food notes

[radiantfracture]

I think if I had been raised on spider cake, I might've been more well-disposed toward spiders.¹ Thank you, sovay .

Yesterday I made another spider cake, a less luxurious one, as I had lots of cornmeal and a little bit of yogurt. I'm toasting a piece for dessert, having eaten some more of the yogurt with a yellow split-pea dahl I made today. Delicious. A recipe that could've come straight out of the Sad Bastard Cookbook. The cheapest possible curry spices from a baggie (though I did toast them in a gesture of propriety) with nothing fancy added except a little extra powdered ginger. This only ascends to Jedi-level sad bastard cookery because it requires a rice cooker for you to dump everything into and then ignore until the mess transforms into something starch-creamy and delicious. In this case the dahl alchemized while I was in my Friday night Zoom.

I'm cooking a second round now with some yam in as an experiment. Something to freeze. The salmon soup froze up well, but now that's the only thing in the freezer, apart from the three loaves of Squirrelly Bread I found on deep sale in another municipality.

Does anyone have a favourite way to cook jackfruit? I don't mean a favourite Google search term but a beloved recipe that you yourself use and eat and enjoy? I bought a package of said fruit at the store quite some time ago in a fit of modernity and then panicked and shoved it to the back of the fridge, but I need to use up all these loose foodstuffs before I acquire any more. And I myself can Google, but who should I trust? (I choose you, reader.)

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1. Or less well-disposed towards cake, I suppose.

Comments

[sovay]

Does anyone have a favourite way to cook jackfruit?

Not that I personally make! I have only ever had jackfruit in restaurants, where it has always treated me well, which doesn't help at all.

I think if I had been raised on spider cake, I might've been more well-disposed toward spiders. Thank you, sovay .

I am so glad it is treating you well.

*hugs*

[sabotabby]

Sad Bastard dahl sounds great. I mean, it's easy and full of protein; it just tends to be time-consuming in my experience.

If you find a good jackfruit recipe lemme know. I love barbecue jackfruit more than most things.

[thewayne]

I'm definitely going to make a spider cake someday, but I'm leaving town Tuesday for about a week, so it'll have to wait.

[haertstitch]

what's aspidrcake?

[radiantfracture]

Sounds like a riddle but it's a New England thing I heard about from sovay -- cornbread with cream poured into the middle to cook up into a kind of custard (but I use goat yogurt).

[haertstitch]

searched for it and came up with this
"https://www.thekitchn.com/new-england-spider-cake-22948875"
i've not spendt much time out east
my aunt might have known she lived in georgia.

we did a variation without corn- andwith out the sugar
"https://therecipecritic.com/pannukkau-finnish-pancake/"