tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32042844.post3781303683492941687..comments2023-04-27T10:19:29.962+02:00Comments on The Pirate Balthasar: Chapter 7 A - curiositiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32042844.post-4147585275351613502011-11-10T10:01:42.675+01:002011-11-10T10:01:42.675+01:00It's very simple, see that's a picture of ...It's very simple, see that's a picture of my own plate.<br />You need potatoes, saffron, a bit of onions and a bit of sage.<br /><br />usually what I do is I make the sage and the onions turn golden in a bit of olive oil, at the bottom of the pot. Then I add the potatoes and a bit of water. A pinch of salt.<br />I keep an eye on the pot because I don't have an exact measure for water it depends on how many potatoes you cook... so I stir them often. I add the saffron.<br />When the potatoes are soft and the water is gone down a lot you get this nice starchy creamy yellow sauce at the bottom of the pot.<br />I just serve them warm.dedasaurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08118053216478451902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32042844.post-26830860060486895152011-11-10T07:49:14.299+01:002011-11-10T07:49:14.299+01:00Any idea the recipe for those potatoes you have th...Any idea the recipe for those potatoes you have the picture of? I'd love to make them for my dad.Fraxinushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11028360225786027434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32042844.post-20923951325971701902010-11-17T16:13:47.781+01:002010-11-17T16:13:47.781+01:00Stumbled on some fork history trivia the other day...Stumbled on some fork history trivia the other day on a old number of the 'Storica' magazine XD.<br />The fork as an eating tool did indeed reach Italy&the western world in teh Middle Ages via Venice, but wasn't well received because of the ambivalent feelings towards the Byzantine lady in question. Eating with a fork was seen as an innatural, weird luxury... a perversion XD. 'Those Byzantines, such rich, refined, corrupted sleazebags'! XD Some friars and religious people also associated the fork with the bad fame of the eastern - and scismatic post-1054, ohohoho - Christians of the Eastern Roman Empire. Hence the perverted fork ended up as something eeebil and a tool of the devil XDD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32042844.post-35238747019076030992010-09-13T16:06:57.296+02:002010-09-13T16:06:57.296+02:00Venice, my love <3.
I'm not sure about th...Venice, my love <3. <br /><br />I'm not sure about the continuation of fork use, but considering the Venice relations with the Middle and Far East it's not that impossible. In this case the city might have been the source for the spreading of the fork habit in the rest of Italy some centuries later, as for the stockfish. <br />Ironically enough, the most renowed stockfish dish of the Venice region is the one made in Vicenza, "alla vicentina", while among the true Venice style dishes one of the most beloved recipes requires cattle liver: fegato alla veneziana :d .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32042844.post-4826489857434587782010-09-13T13:42:49.015+02:002010-09-13T13:42:49.015+02:00Yup, they disappeared and came back. But you have ...Yup, they disappeared and came back. But you have to consider one thing, when we talk about Venice... Venice cannot be associated with the rest of Italian history - it's always been its own futuristic little island. I don't suppose there has been a continuation in the use of forks in Italy but it might have happened in Venice. Consider Stockfish... it entered Italy through Venice, reached the other Regions in centuries and now it's a traditional dish in the South.dedasaurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08118053216478451902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32042844.post-64775433738974122192010-09-13T13:27:53.647+02:002010-09-13T13:27:53.647+02:00I'm drooling at those potatoes *_* . And that...I'm drooling at those potatoes *_* . And that kind of bread looks delicious... 'plain' freshly baked bread is delicious already, but when you start to add grains and stuff inside the dough and/or at the top... :Q___<br /><br /><br />Hmmm hmmm... I knew that Venice during XIII century was the first place in the western world to use forks outside of the big ones used by servents for holding the meat to slice... they were introduce by a byzantine lady via marriage. <br /><br />About table manners and tools in general, well... centuries later things were still the same as in the Middle Age XD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com