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Jamon & Citrus Tapas - Let's Taco Bout It Blog

Jamon & Citrus Tapas

Recipe inspired by “The Story of Ferdinand the Bull” As the years went by Ferdinand grew and grew until he was very big and strong. All the other bulls who had grown up with him in the same pasture would fight each other all day. They would butt each other and stick each other with…

Coriander Chutney | Let's Taco Bout It Blog

Coriander Chutney

Recipe inspired by “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel “When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.” “I…

Instant Pot Jeera Rice | Let's Taco Bout It Blog

Instant Pot Jeera Rice

Recipe inspired by the book “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel “I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.” ” The mosque was truly an open construction, to God and to breeze. We sat cross-legged listening to the imam until the…

South Indian Tiffin Sambar - Let's Taco Bout it Blog

South Indian Tiffin Sambar

Recipe inspired by “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel “There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless.” These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed…

Bitter Greens Salad with Lemon & Honey | Let's Taco Bout It Blog

Bitter Greens Salad with Lemon & Honey

Recipe inspired by “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett “Granny’s implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains.” “Granny had also browbeaten the dwarfs who lived under the mountains and in fear of their lives into speeding the thing up. Many an egg…

Stuffed Eggplant | Let's Taco Bout It Blog

Stuffed Eggplant

Recipe inspired by “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett “The words won’t be forgotten, thought Granny. They’ve got a power to them. They’re damn good words, as words go. There was yet another rattle of thunder, which ended with the kind of crash made, for example, by a sheet of tin escaping from someone’s hands and…

Roasted Pumpkin

Recipe inspired by the book “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett “She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.”   “Let him be whoever he thinks he is,” she…
Red Cabbage - Let's Taco Bout It blog

Red Cabbage

Recipe inspired by the book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley “‘Hateful day when I received life!’ I exclaimed in agony. Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type…