#citrus cuisine

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Last night I made Bakhsh! It's a Bukharian rice with meat, onions, and loads of cilantro. I used the recipe from @pomegranateandhoney and it was amazing! We used lamb and increased the amount of meat in the recipe, as my family is very into meat. It turned out delicious and we enjoyed it a lot. I made a little Israeli salad to go with it.

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Vegan Mushroom and Aubergine Tahchin / Persian Baked Saffron and Yogurt Rice

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pressed a flower. it turned out poorly. flower shed two petals. ate one out of curiosity. was bitter. ate the other bcause I am a fan of bitter tastes. now want to the whole flower but that would probably be a bad idea

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Imagine going to an Italian restaurant and just wanting fish and chips

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Traditional Greek lemon/orange/vanilla Cake with a dash of ginger!

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Discover the Wonders of Yuzu: The Citrus Magic in your Seafood. 

As we all know, Citrus juices enhance the natural flavours of the seafood. They balance its richness and provide a refreshing, tangy contrast. Also, the acidity in citrus helps to tenderize the fish, making it more succulent and flavorful.

Often, Yuzu is used in the marination of Fish such as mackerel, salmon or sea bream. The Yuzu Juice is mixed with soy sauce and mirin before grilling. A final squeeze of fresh yuzu juice is also added over grilled fish which enhances its flavor and aroma.

Another dish which is very popular in Japan in which Yuzu fits perfectly is the Yuzu Ponzu Sauce. It is a citrus-based sauce made with yuzu juice, soy sauce, and mirin. The tangy flavour of yuzu ponzu perfectly balances the richness of raw fish. Generally, people use it as a dipping sauce for sashimi and sushi. You can also garnish the sashimi and sushi with thin slices of yuzu peel or a few drops of yuzu juice.

Hot Pots or Nabe is another famous delicacy of Japan. Mothers add Yuzu juice towards the end of cooking to brighten the flavours of the seafood and vegetables in the hot pot. You can also use yuzu peel as you like.

When you add a few drops of yuzu juice to miso soup with clams or other seafood it adds a subtle citrus fragrance and enhances the flavour of the Soup. I highly recommend this small addition to your soups to create a big difference. It takes your dish to a whole new level.

Other seafood dishes in which you can easily include Yuzu are Ceviche, Carpaccio, tentsuyu (Tempura dipping sauce) and Yuzu Soy Sauce. I suggest you try Yuzu in the next seafood dish that you will make and you won't be able to stop using Yuzu in Seafood but you will also incorporate it across various non-seafood dishes as well. It has become the most cherished component of my cooking.

I will recommend the Motoni- 100% Yuzu Juice it comes with 200 ml of Yuzu Juice in one bottle and is pure juice without any additives or flavouring made by squeezing the Yuzu Fruit very carefully as per the Japanese tradition. You can email to get your bottle of Yuzu Juice at sales@nihonmoto.com or info@nihonmoto.com.

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Recipe for Octopus in Tomato Sauce Enjoy this age-old Maltese recipe for octopus sauce, which includes potatoes, tomatoes, red wine, and a hint of citrus. It can be served over spaghetti or on its own. 2 potatoes peeled and cubed, 1/2 teaspoon grated orange zest, salt and pepper to taste, 1 large onion chopped, 6 cloves garlic chopped, 1 teaspoon mixed spice, 2 tablespoons tomato paste, 1.5 pounds octopus, 1 cup red wine, 1 teaspoon white sugar, 1 can peas drained, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 can whole peeled tomatoes, 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon zest, 1 teaspoon curry powder, 4 bay leaves, 1/4 cup chopped fresh mint leaves, 10 whole pitted ripe olives

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dinner i made on tuesday! it was israeli couscous in a chickpea & tomato sauce. we served it with a kale salad, feta, and runny fried eggs. absolutely delicious and the first vegetarian meal i've made! i got the recipe from pinchofyum.com. feel free to send an ask or dm me for the link!

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Octopus in Tomato Sauce Enjoy this traditional recipe from Malta which makes a very flavorful sauce for octopus with potatoes, tomatoes, red wine and a hint of citrus that can be served over spaghetti, or just on its own.

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wof headcanons but theyre oddly food and substance related for some reason

Although I understand why Tui didn't include very much info abt alchohol or drugs in a kids book there is an extreme lack of culinary related world building so here are some ideas I had while on this train of thought :)

SeaWings tend to be foodies and are generally given cooking classes in school. Which if you think about it, is rather important, because like 60 percent of the creatures in the ocean are poisonous and the rest have parasites and nasty germs so they need to know whats up when it comes to food safety.

SeaWings use a lot of citrus in their food and drinks and they also use it for fragrances and stuff they just really like it

SeaWing nobles commonly eat fugu and there have been assassinations where a chef was bribed to not properly take out the poison so the dragon eating it would die

SeaWings drink to taste. SkyWings drink to forget what century it is.

SkyWings typically eat their meat raw but on special occasions they will barbecue it and put some spices n stuff on it. They don't eat much else besides meat but they do like spicy things like peppers and they also like strong onion or garlic flavors. The little masochists. Anyway,

SkyWings don't really like sweet things and many of them can't even taste them so they're like wtf is a dessert

man do they love them some olives tho. Olives everywhere. In their drink. Out of the jar. On their meat. Oil on their scales. Oil in their hygiene products. They started trading them from the Sand and SeaWings millennia ago but theyve selectively bred ones that grow in the mountains

This one's more drugs than food but SkyWings will sometimes take some kind of stimulant before battle like a beserker so they're all fired up heheh

MudWings are excellent meal preparers and sibs like to all cook together so they'll make a big pot of stew or something

They like bread and desserts, they have easy access to sugar cane being along the east coast and they also use a lot of honey. They're re into canning stuff too, they have a lot of raspberries and blackberries and strawberries in their temperate forest areas and they grow them to make jam and wine and they use honey to make mead

basically they are Cottagecore(TM) and I love them

They also eat lots of freshwater fish and crawfish and whatnot

And they also eat a lot of tatoes

Vanilla grows in the swamps, they use that in their cakes

MudWings deserve some appreciation goddamnit their kingdom is biologically diverse and beautiful

SandWings have tequila because. Yknow. Cactus.

They eat a lot of bugs and lizards, they don't really need to eat every day so it's not a huge deal

they do like coconuts tho and they use coconut oil in a lot of their hygiene products as well as in their cooking

They deep fry a lot of shit. Idk where i got this but trust me. They love things with lots of fat in it bc they need all they can get

Really sticky sweet desserts and candy; enjoyers of those one lollipops with the mealworms or whatever tf in them

also canning stuff like bone broth is very important

pickled cactus as well

rhey probably have a festival when cactus fruit goes in season

what even is IceWing cuisine.

Well way up north where there's nothing but ice it's pretty bad and the dragons have to eat just plain ass meat and seafood, but down into the tundras there's some pretty good stuff like cinnamon, pines for tea, honey berries, and other foraging as well as more diversity of meats

They would probably eat sushi

All the other tribes like to make fun of them and rightfully so bc their food is so plain

they make good honey berry wine tho

Maube that's why theyre so damn grumpy

RainWings are expert foragers ofc but they don't really feel the need to prepare their food in any way

They are, however, in constant dire need of sodium because they get absolutely none from their fruit

So anything salty is wow

Maybe rhey have a place near the mud kingdom border where they can grow some asparagus for salt

they are also the only tribe besides Night that can eat chocolate but forgor 💀 how to make it so the NightWings and them have to re figure it out together

Salted dark chocolate bing bang boom instant delicacy

NightWings used to be able to cook really well, especially desserts and pastry, but they forgor while they were trying to not die on the volcano

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Pizza Ebraica / Sweet Roman-Jewish “Pizza” (Vegan)

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8 rare local dishes from the Greek islands

Post inspired by this Greek article. I picked half of the dishes in order to create an island and local exclusive list, then translated and summarized the info. The pictures have links and in most of the respective websites you can find the recipes in Greek.

Makarunes with Sitaka, Kasos island

Makarunes is thick penne-like handmade pasta which is served with caramelised onions and the special Sitaka cheese of Kasos island. Sitaka is so rare, it is sometimes hard to find even in Athens but some restaurants do have this dish in their menu.

Atherinópita (Smelt pie), Syros island

It is not truly a pie, but it is a dish produced from frying various small fish like sand smelts and bogues as well as onions all close together until they create a crust holding them together.

Photography: Χριστίνα Γεωργιάδου

Stuffed Hachles, Lesvos island

These are small baskets made of sun- and air-dried wheat kneaded with sour tarhana. They are usually stuffed with cheese, fresh tomato, herbs and spices but the filling is up to anyone's appetite really.

Sweet sefuklotí pie, Naxos and Tinos islands

Sefukloti or fesklopita is a rare pie that is actually a dessert, which is surprising (in Greek cuisine) because it looks exactly like a spinach pie. Sefukloti is a traditional recipe of these islands, particularly of the Catholics celebrating Christmas Eve (The Cyclades islands have the largest presence of Catholic Christians in Greece.) The pie is made of swiss chard, rice, sugar, molasses, walnuts, raisins, cinnamon and clove. The crust is kneaded with orange juice. Some also add onions and leeks, which also do not prevent this pie from working perfectly as a dessert. Before the serving, sefukloti is dressed with sesame seeds and honey.

Anthógalo with eggs, Réthymnon, Crete island

Anthogalo or Staka is produced exclusively in Crete island. It is made of the salted fats of sheep milk. In this recipe, eggs are fried with anthogalo which works here like butter. The eggs are buttered by the anthogalo, while parts of it curdle and form cheese pieces during the frying.

Aliaða & Vakalaópita, Cephalonia island

Aliaða is the local version of the Greek garlic dip "skorðaliá". Aliada is made of garlic, potatoes and the juices of boiled cod or octopus. The latter turns the dip a burgundy colour. Besides the famous fried cod that is enjoyed everywhere in Greece, in Cephalonia cod is also used to make "Vakalaópita”, a cod fish pie, in which the crust and the filling are kneaded with wine and vinegar.

Rhodian pungiá, Rhodes island

These are wild greens pies baked in special local traditional pans. The wild greens are not boiled before they are added to the pie but they are salt dried. The juice that is produced by this process is mixed with olive oil and is used as a dressing for the pie when it's served.

Anthos, Andros island

Anthos means flower. In Andros island it is also the name of the local spoon sweet, made of lemon flowers as well as the flowers of other citrus plants. It is fragrant, chewy and is considered an aristocratic dessert with limited production. It is a pretty hard recipe, because the flowers must be picked at the right time of the season and the cooking must be very careful so that the sweet won't get bitter and dark.

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Alternate TD ship names

I'd like to share some alternate ship names of a couple of the Total Drama pairings. It's just that, no offense, there's too many portmanteau-type (that means fusion names) shipping names in this fandom, even though it's traditional at this point. I just want to spice things up a little bit. And if any of you would like to participate, feel free to do so.

Gwen × Trent → Indie Goth

Gwen × Duncan → Rebel Green

Gwen × Courtney → Gothic Law

Gwen × Geoff → Raveyard

Gwen × Heather → Rich Black

Duncan × Courtney → Rebel Court

Duncan × Zoey → Indie Punk

Duncan × Heather → Privileged Punks

Lindsey × Tyler → Gym Model

Lindsey × Leshawna →

Alejandro × Heather →

Alejandro × Noah →

Noah × Owen → Reality Bites

Noah × Cody →

Noah × Emma →

Izzy × Owen →

Mike × Zoey → Indie Teal

Dawn × B → Silent Forest

Dawn × Noah →

Brick × Jo → Workout Woes

Scott × Courtney → Farmer's Law

Shawn × Jasmine → Zombaroo

Sky × Dave → Mental Gymnastics

Sky × Ella → Olympic Opera

Topher × Ella → Fairytail (@generationofmalevolence)

Priya × Caleb →

Priya × Damien → Hopeless Hustlers (@generationofmalevolence)

Bowie × Raj → Hockey Starman

Julia × MK → Double Deceit

Scary Girl × Damien → Creepy Chemistry

Ripper × Axel → Filthy Ravagers

Ripper × Chase → Rip n' Bait

Emma × Zee → Citrus Soda

Chris × Chef → Sadist Cuisine

If any of you wants to share me your alternate ship names, hit me up.

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What’s one food/drink in your world that sounds amazing

Do they have any musical instruments, if so is it based off of any really world stuff?

Tahen cultures have all sorts of taboo around fire. This is taken to an extreme in Ranai, where open fires are completely forbidden and one must own a special permit to tend a cooking fire. As a result, Ranai cuisine is renowned for it's wealth of raw, pickled, and otherwise marinated foods. Bcause Ranai's territory is an archipelago where fish and seafood is the main source of protein, makwa, acid-cooked fish akin to our world's ceviche, is a staple. Real-life ceviche being delicious, it is only logical that fictional ceviche would also be*.

Bird-fish makwa is an ancient traditional meal of the archipelago. It has three main ingredients: gruel of uciwici, an oat-like, distinctively purple grain rich in anthocyanins, dried and salted kelp, and shrimp and crustacean meat marinated in sumac vinegar. Eggs, herbs, and tart fruits are sometimes added as toppings. Bird-fish makwa most salient tastes are tartness from the sumac vinegar with salt and umami from the seafood and kelp, on a base note of mild and nutty sweetness reminiscient of brown rice from the mashed uciwici. The name of this recipe is a mistranslation of the meal's name from Wetki to Ranaite Tahen.

Jimeleu makwa is a classic ceviche which puportedly originates from the town of Jimeleu, where the soils and climate are conducive to the growth of citrus trees. Jimeleu ceviche consists of diced white fish acid-cooked in lime juice with horseradish, white beans, and cold-cooked uciwici grains. The marinade is usually clear, with a green tinge from the lime and horseradish. Common variants add cold fish broth or cream of green peas to water the ceviche into a soup. Jimeleu makwa is sour and spicy, and variants with cream of green peas have a distinctive sweetness.

Cici-Uli makwa is reminiscient of tataki or carpaccio. A large, white-meat fish is cut into filets which are marinated in a mixture of sumac vinegar, oil, and seasonings (including, but not limited to, salt, horseradish, and tart fruits akin to pincherries). The marinated filet is then cut into very thin slices and served with crunchy seeds and sliced sweet onion. Only the external edge of the fish has cooked: the main flavor of Cici-Uli makwa is that of the raw fish itself. This type of makwa requires very fresh fish.

*Note that I have not tried to make these The Most Palatable Possible - especially the first one!

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The answer to the second question is a bit less interesting. In short: yes, they do have music instruments! However, I am profoundly not musically inclined and this (as well as sports) is a thing where I show my biases as an individual: I have done roughly 0 musical worldbuilding, and it is unlikely that I will ever do more than the bare minimum (when I remember that the world should, to feel alive, have some music). About Ranaites, I can say that they have a variety of instruments, especially winds and percussions. Bamboo is an important material for their woodwinds and percussion instruments. A large shell is used as a traditional wind instrument. I imagine they have some sort of relatively simple string instrument, and a slightly more complex one with better acoustic imported by members of the Oumdashen diaspora. Ranaites have inherited a taste for passive music such as windchimes from the archipelago's original inhabitants, the Wetki. Shell windchimes are a popular fixture of gardens throughout the archipelago.