HORSERADISH has an uncanny affinity to alkaline foods – beetroots, carrots, even sweet potato, certainly with curd or fresh goat’s cheese. The exception is of course what it is always paired with roast beef, but if you carve a rib as thinly as my father used to do, then maybe even that can have aContinue reading “Horseradish genius”
Category Archives: Spices
Cardamom tea
THE sparseness of Ethiopian terrain may not lead you to suspect that the cuisine necessarily has hidden treasures, but it does, not least in the fiery heat of its chili and also its basic injera flour which form spongy flatbread bases for its spiky slow cooked dishes. But it also champions a tea of cardamomContinue reading “Cardamom tea”
Welcome to the Alkaline Canteen 