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Beet & Cucumber Salad - Let's Taco Bout it Blog

Beet & Cucumber Salad (Rödbetssallad)

Recipe inspired by the book “Pippi Longstocking” by Astrid Lingren “Out of doors the sun shone in a clear blue sky. It was one of those radiant September days that make you feel like walking in the woods. Pippi had an idea.“Let’s take Mr. Nilsson and go on a little picnic.” “Oh, yes, let’s,” cried…

Swedish Meatballs (Kjottboller) - Let's Taco Bout It Blog

Swedish Meatballs (Kjottboller)

Recipe inspired by the book “Pippi Longstocking” by Astrid Lingren “Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house, and in the house lived Pippi Longstocking. She was nine years old, and she lived there all alone. “ “She had no…

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…

Lemon Garlic Lobster Tails

Lemon Garlic Lobster Tails

Recipe inspired by the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “A pair of stage ‘twins’—who turned out to be the girls in yellow—did a baby act in costume and champagne was served in glasses bigger than finger bowls. The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver…