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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…

Dark Chocolate Dipped Wafer Cookies

Recipe inspired by the “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett “Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn’t trust it. Often you couldn’t even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else—coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you….

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…

Waldorf Salad

Recipe inspired by the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream…

Champagne Sabayon

Recipe inspired by the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” “At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving…

Milk Poached Cod with Potatoes

Milk Poached Cod with Potatoes

Recipe inspired by the book “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood Excerpts from the book: “We got the fish at Loaves and Fishes, with its wooden sign, fish with a smile and eyelashes. It doesn’t sell loaves though. Most households bake their own, though you can get dried-up rolls and wizened doughnuts at Daily Bread,…