Showing posts with label spice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spice. Show all posts

23 Dec 2015

Molekylær gastronomi-workshop desember: Kan vi kutte ned på saltet uten å ødelegge smaken?

Når vi møttes til workshop 14. desember hos Klippfiskakademiet var opprinnelig annonsert tema
hvordan salt påvirker andre smaker. Men ved nærmere ettersyn i litteraturen viste det seg at
flesteparten av spørsmålene som var stilt i invitasjonen til denne workshopen er ganske godt besvart allerede. Like fullt tok vi en gjennomgang av noen høydepunkter fra forskningslitteraturen, for salt har en evne til å smaksmessig påvirke sine omgivelser på kraftfulle og fascinerende vis.

Smak og lukt

Det sies, ofte litt tabloid, at "80% av smaksopplevelsen i realiteten er lukt". Lukt er utvilsomt minst like viktig som den smaken vi kjenner kun i munnen (eksperiment: hold for nesa, smak på litt vaniljesukker. Slipp deretter opp for nesa). Men er det mulig å sette et tall på dette forholdet? I en helt fersk samleartikkel av Oxford-professor Charles Spence om forholdet mellom lukt og smak konkluderer Spence at dette nok ikke kan kvantifiseres, men at "...most researchers would appear to agree that olfaction plays a "dominant" role in the tasting of food". Jeg skal komme tilbake til hvorfor dette er relevant i spørsmål om salt. Les også mer om smak og lukt på nettsidene til Geitmyra matkultursenter.

Samspill mellom smaker (i munnen)

Det er gjort en del forskning på samspill mellom smaker. En stor del er basert på respons fra øvede eller uøvede smakspaneler. Selv om vi vet mye om hvordan sansene fungerer er smaksopplevelser så
Grunnsmaker påvirker hverandre.
Figur: blog.khymos.org
sammensatte fenomener at det er vanskelig å avdekke de underliggende mekanismene (f.eks. hva som skyldes fysiologi og hva som skyldes psykologiske og kulturelle faktorer). Martin Lersch har i sin blogg khymos laget en flott figur som illustrerer dette. Eksempler på hva man kan trekke ut av dette er at
  • Litt salt fremmer søtsmak
  • Mye salt hemmer søtsmak
  • Salt og umami fremmer hverandre gjensidig
  • Salt hemmer bitter smak i alle konsentrasjoner

Mirakelstoffet salt - kan vi kutte ned på det?

I en artikkel fra 1985 viste Gillette at en liten mengde salt (lavere enn at man kan kjenne saltsmaken) gjorde at en kikertsuppe opplevdes som mer salt, mer søt, mer fyldig, større samlet smak, mer balansert, mindre metallisk, mindre bitter, og endog som å ha tykkere/fyldigere konsistens! Ikke rart at vi er så glad i salt.
Salt påvirker en rekke andre smaker og karakteristikker, selv i mengder som er for små til å smakes!
IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2010. Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press


Så hvordan kan vi gå fram for å kutte ned saltinntaket?

Vi spiser jo dobbelt så mye salt som det vi bør. En måte er å gå gjennom en avvenningsprosess, omtrent som å slutte å røyke. Mange av oss har vært på besøk hos folk som har kuttet ned på salt og opplevd at maten smaker tamt og trist, mens verten synes det smaker akkurat passe salt (eller kanskje du selv har vært denne verten). Forskning støtter dette (se kap. 3 her); folk som reduserer saltinntaket viser også preferanse for lavere saltmengde når det har gått noen måneder. Du må altså holde ut en stund for at det skal fungere.

Men det er også en annen måte. Kan det tenkes at vi kan redusere saltinntaket uten å merke forskjell i smak? Begrepet "bliss point" er et tenkt ideelt saltinnhold, smaksmessig, i en matrett. For lite, og maten smaker ikke så godt; for mye og maten blir for salt. Men er denne idealmengden ett bestemt punkt, eller er det "mellom saltinnhold x og y"? Hvis det er ett enkelt punkt er det ikke så
"Bliss point"
Figur: referanse på forrige bilde
mye vi kan gjøre, men tenk om det er det siste? Da kan vi redusere mengden fra y til x uten at det går ut over smaken. Eller, vi kan tilsette andre smaker som kan kompensere for den manglende saltsmaken, slik som diagrammet fra khymos ovenfor. Det indikerer at en liten mengde sursmak vil fremme opplevelsen av salt (tynn grønn pil), eller en gitt mengde umami kan fremme saltsmak. Kan vi kompensere for mindre salt ved å gjøre retten en anelse syrlig, eller tilsette noe som øker opplevelsen av umami?

Videre, har forskere fra Paris vist at lukt kan påvirke opplevelsen av salt smak. Når man tilsatte en liten mengde sardinaroma (opplevelse av umami?) opplevde respondentene at en vannløsning smakte salt selv om den ikke inneholdt noe salt! 

Og nettopp dette var utgangspunktet for undersøkelsen vår denne gangen. Mindor Klauseth ved Klippfiskakademiet laget en utsøkt fiskebuljong som var basis for prøvesmakingen vår. Samtidig undersøkte Anu Hopia og hennes venner i MG Workshopen i Helsingfors hvordan dette fungerte med kjøttbuljong. Vi hadde altså to identiske forsøk men i to ulike buljonger.

Forsøket

Vi tok utgangspunkt i en fiskebuljong laget av følgende ingredienser, men uten salt:
Foto: Hans Morten Sundnes
  • fiskeavskjær (av kolkjeft)
  • sjalottløk og gul løk
  • hvitløk
  • fennikel
  • sellerirot
  • gulrot
  • urter (laurbærblad og timian)
  • sort pepper
  • vann
Vi delte denne i fire like deler og hver del ble tilsatt følgende:
  • Prøve A - salt og umami. 0,3 % salt + 0,3% MSG (natriumglutamat; totalt Na = prøve C)
  • Prøve B - salt og "umami-aktig" aroma. 0,4 % salt + litt løpstikke
  • Prøve C - salt. 0,4 % salt
  • Prøve D - salt og syrlig. 0,4 % salt + 0,05% eddik
Deltakerne visste ikke hva som var i de fire og rangerte prøvene fra minst salt til mest salt. Mengdene av tilsetningene var så lave at de knapt, eller ikke, var merkbare. Dette ble understreket av at alle vi som prøvesmakte opplevde at det var veldig vanskelig å rangere dem. Ingen av deltakerne hadde lagt merke til at prøve B hadde ekstra tilsatt løpstikke.

Sammenligning av den finske og norske undersøkelsen.
Figur: Anu Hopia

Resultatet - merkelige paradokser

Til tross for at det opplevdes som vanskelig ble resultatet relativt tydelig. Prøven med salt og MSG kom ut som mest salt, noe som stemmer godt overens med hypotesen. Men deretter kom prøven med kun salt, noe som er stikk i strid med hypotesen. Svak syrlighet eller ekstra aroma gjorde altså ikke at buljongen opplevdes som mer salt. Merkelig... Og enda mer merkelig var det at forsøket i Helsingfors pekte i stikk motsatt retning, nemlig at syrlighet og persillearoma fremmet saltsmak!

Hva kan dette bety? Det er utvilsomt forskjell på kjøtt- og fiskebuljong, og Anu nevner i sitt innlegg at kjøtt inneholder naturlig MSG mens den naturlige umamismaken i fisk kommer av ribonukleotider (altså ikke glutamat). Siden vi tilsatte glutamat til prøve A kan dette kanskje ha forsterket opplevelsen av umami mer i fiskekraften enn kjøttkraften? Men det andre resultatet er vanskeligere å forklare. Kanskje skyldes det at fiskebuljongen allerede var ganske kompleks med mange ingredienser, og at løpstikken dermed ikke hadde samme effekt som kjøttkraften i Helsingfors som hadde færre ingredienser?

Så mye lengre kommer vi nok ikke, men her er det duket for et nytt forsøk. Nemlig å lage basisfiske- og kjøttkraft, uten andre tilsetninger enn kjøtt og fisk. Så kan vi lage de fire utgavene (A-D) for hver av disse og blindsmake de to buljongene. Det hadde jo vært spennende...

God jul!

*****************************
Neste workshop er planlagt 11. januar. Følg med her på fooducation.org for invitasjon og tema.

7 Dec 2015

Molekylær gastronomi-workshop 14. desember: Salt og andre smaker

Foto: Flickr/włodi
Salt julemat med tyttebærsyltetøy. En teskje salt i bolledeigen. Sjokolade med havsalt. Hva har disse til felles? Jo, de kombinerer ulike grunnsmaker. Og ikke nok med det - de ulike grunnsmakene sies å påvirke hverandre slik at den ene kan fremheve eller dempe en annen.

Vertskapet for workshopen mandag 14. desember er Klippfiskakademiet sine flotte lokaler i Ålesund. Og hvilket annet tema (bortsett fra fisk) er da mer passende enn salt? Men denne gangen ikke som konserverende ingrediens slik det brukes i klippfisk, men som smakstilsetning. Og ikke minst, hvordan saltsmak deltar i et komplekst samspill med andre smaksopplevelser der smaker kan fremheve eller dempe hverandre.

Det sies at salt er en smaksforsterker, men hvilke smaker blir forsterket av salt? Og hvor mye eller lite salt må til for at dette skal skje? Kan vi få hjelp av slike smaksforsterkende kombinasjoner til å redusere mengden tilsatt salt? Og hva med den kjente men litt mystiske smaken umami; påvirkes denne? Her finnes det mange spørsmål å utforske, så nok en gang må vi avgrense og fokusere.

Våre finske venner skal samtidig som oss besøke Unilever i Helsingfors og undersøke hvordan smakene spiller sammen i kjøtt- eller kyllingbuljong, så da er det vel helt naturlig at vi bruker fiskebuljong som vårt medium. Mindor Klauseth og hans medarbeidere på Klippfiskakademiet vil lage en helt nøytral fiskebuljong, og så skal vi undersøke om små mengder salt, for lite til å smakes direkte, påvirker opplevelsen av andre grunnsmaker. Og kanskje hvordan andre grunnsmaker påvirker opplevelsen av salt. Vil vi oppleve at salt er en smaksforsterker, eller kanskje er det en "smaksdemper"?

=====================
Tid: Mandag 14. desember kl. 17.00-19.00
Sted: Klippfiskakademiet i Ålesund (Tueneset i samme bygg som Altlanterhavsparken)
Påmelding: Meld deg på med e-post til ef(at)hivolda.no. Da får du beskjed ved eventuelle endringer
Som alltid: deltakelse er gratis såfremt du møter fram

Vel møtt!

31 Dec 2008

TGRWT #13 roundup: caraway and cocoa

It's time to sum up the entered dishes for They go really well together #13. From the entries, it seems like caraway and cocoa/chocolate indeed do go well together.
However, for starters it should be mentioned that this combination has been discussed on khymos at several instances already. Also, I was made aware of the fact that pumpernickel contains both of these, see discussion and links at Medellitin.

What fascinates me with this month's entries is that you can literally build a whole multi-course meal on caraway and cocoa (in order of submission):




Caraway cocoa chili
by Brian at The Food Geek
[...] the chili turned out great, [...]all the flavors were balanced quite well. I could certainly taste the caraway, [...] and it definitely adds a new note to the chili. Probably some sesame would have rounded it out nicely.


Caraway chocolate cake
by M
[...] mixed 150 gram self raising flour, 1 tablespoon cocoa, 1 teaspoon caraway fruits, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 150 gram brown sugar, 75 gram walnuts, 75 gram pine nuts, 75 gram raisins and 75 gram chopped chocolate. I added 300 gram Turkish yoghurt, mixed everything gentle but thoroughly, spooned the mixture into a silicon cake pan and baked the cake in a preheated oven, 170 degrees Celsius, for about 75 minutes.

Caraway cocoa egg cream
by Rob at The Curious Blogquat
I was able to get the caraway flavor to stick with the chocolate [...] The chocolate is already subdued in an egg cream due to the seltzer, so it was nicely balanced with the caraway. We both enjoyed the drink and found it to be a nice pairing. [...] Interestingly I wouldn't do this combination again, but only because its a bit too "normal" for my liking. It was too good together, and not enough "wow" factor.

Chocolate cookies with caraway
by Martin at Khymos
In the stripped down version with only cocoa, caraway and some bitter lemon peel there you first notice the cocoa, then there is an aftertaste of caraway. I like caraway, so I was very pleased with the result. [...] Anyhow I think the 10:1 ratio of cocoa to caraway worked very fine. [...] With all the other spices present I wasn’t able to single out the caraway flavor, but it (probably) added to the overall complexity. I really recommend the recipe - even if you decide to omit caraway!


Chocolate-caraway mousse/caraway caramel tree surrounded by coconut water gelee pond, white chocolate-caraway-rye bread puree and dehydrated chocolate mousse rock (!)
by Larry at tri-2-cook
I like the flavor combo. It's not a powerful statement and it wasn't particularly easy to keep the caraway at the top of the flavor profile with the chocolate but they really do "go well together". Fun stuff.

Chocolate - caraway - peanut - Kumquat dessert
by Sølve at strezzafoods
I was quite happy with the result. A rich creamy dessert, and the caraway brought a spicy dimension that was both new but also very harmonious. The kumquat added much needed acid and bitterness. All in all a very different and amusing dessert, almost savory with nuts, spice, bitter chocolate and salt.


Beignets with Duck, caraway-chocolate and juniper sauce

by Alessio (alessiofangano [at] msn.com)

For 15 beignets:
15 Beignets
245 g Duck breast
40 g dark chocolate (60%)
1 tsp Caraway
100 g Butter
60 ml Red Wine like Shiraz
5 Juniper berries
½ tbsp Sugar
0.5 g Guar gum

Put the red wine with the juniper berries in a small saucepan and reduce over low heat with the lid on. When reduced of half, add the sugar and let simmer for some minutes. Strain trough a fine sieve and add guar gum while still warm. Brown butter on a skillet over medium fire. Strain and reserve. Grind caraway seeds in a mortar or spice grinder. Melt chocolate, caraway powder and 1 tsp of brown butter over a bain marie. Pour it on a shallow container so that the chocolate layer will be around 4mm thick. Let cool down at room temperature, unmold and cut into cubes. Refrigerate until ready to use. Take away the skin from the duck breast. Cut the meat in small dices. Render the duck skin in a warm skillet under a weight, drained the excess fat from time to time. Put the brown butter on a pan and when well warm, sauté rapidly the duck dices. Mix duck and chocolate dices in a bowl. Open in two the beignets, put in the lower part some of the duck chocolate mixture. Spoon over a teaspoon of the red wine sauce. Grind over some black pepper and close with the upper part and serve.

Verdict: When eating the beignet, the first aroma to be perceived is that of the juniper. The crunchiness of the beignet is followed by the juiciness of the duck meat and the barely melting chocolate with its caraway notes. In the whole the dish works very well, the tricky part is in the lightness of the beignet. The flavors come out very harmoniously and fulfilling. Chocolate and caraway are a perfect combination especially with red meat or game.


Chocolate sauerkraut
by Ole Eivind at Helt naturlig
As the sauce coated the cabbage shreds, the initial taste was very chocolatey with a nice caraway aftertaste. I could clearly taste that the two ingredients go really well together. The texture wasn't too bad either, but I wouldn't call the dish a success. The cabbage itself didn't work well, and for a dish consisting of little more, having the cabbage work against you can't be described as much other than a failure. It was an interesting failure however [...]

Almond-caraway coated chocolate truffles
by yours truly at fooducation
Firstly, a burst of crunchy, salt, roasted almonds followed by rich, dark chocolate. Second, while the chocolate melts and the cocoa flavour still dominates, the caraway comes through and lingers on together with the chocolate. [...] the chocolate and caraway work very well together.



Some comments on caraway aroma and flavour pairing with cocoa
Interestingly (at least to those of us with chemistry-oriented brains), the compound responsible for the intrinsic caraway aroma is (S)-carvone. The other stereoisomer, (R)-carvone, has a spearmint aroma. A striking example of the effect of chirality/handedness in chemistry: the two compounds are identical apart from the fact that they're mirror images, resulting in very different aromas.

(S)-carvone is also an important aroma component in dill seeds, and caraway is suggested to function as substitute for dill aroma (R. Zawirska-Wojtasiak: "Oils obtained from caraway and dill seeds are almost identical in composition").


(S)-carvone (left) has caraway aroma whereas (R)-carvone on the right smells of spearmint

Aroma components in caraway
Surprisingly, I could not find any literature reports on aroma components in caraway, but The Good Scents Company has listed aroma components for both caraway and chocolate/cocoa:

Aroma components in caraway
(S)-carvone
(Z)-carvone-5,6-oxide
(E)-carveol
(Z)-carveol
cuminyl alcohol
4-isopropyl-2-cyclohexenone
isobutyl angelate
3-hepten-2-one

Also, Flavornet has information on flavour components in caraway, only including carvone and carveol isomers, though. Compared to chocolate and cocoa, caraway seems to be a relatively uncomplicated mixture of aromatic substances. Is this possibly due to roasting of the cocoa beans resulting in very complex mixtures of aroma substances in these (from Maillard reactions etc.)?

I was quite surprised when I didn't find any direct matches between caraway and cocoa/chocolate. Maybe are any common substances in low concentrations? A caraway+cocoa google cross-search at The good Scents company returns a lot of hits, but none(?) with natural occurrence in both ingredients. The matches are mostly in the "odor and/or flavor blends with" category. This is of course uplifting, but gives no definite answers in terms of common components. If anyone can come up with such matches, I'd be happy to have a comment.

Finally, I can't resist taking a somewhat amusing detour by the 1927 Nature article Fluctuations in Affective Reactions to the Odour of Caraway Oil by J. H. Kenneth:

"Fluctuations in the affective reactions to caraway oil claimed attention [...the preference being] higher after lunch than that before. In the case of camphor, rosemary oil, menthol, sassafras oil, fennel oil, and a few other odours, no consistent fluctuations of this nature wore [sic] observed."

So, according to Nature, it's not indifferent what time of day you have your caraway. The paper also includes a plot of preference of caraway odour vs. time of day and moon phases :)

29 Dec 2008

Almond-caraway coated chocolate truffles

As a part of "They go really well together no. 13" (TGRWT #13), I wanted to try on making chocolate truffles. This was a first-timer for me, but I must (not very humbly) say that this time I had a lucky strike.

I think this might be the first time I've made something that gives me that experience you get when you go to a restaurant and they serve something you've never tasted before which leaves you both happy and amazed at the same time. Maybe for the first time, I felt that I'd produced such an experience. It's somewhat like the first time I was able to ride my bike without the support wheels.

Being a rookie in the field of confectionery, Shirley O'Corriher was my crutch (Cookwise, I haven't got around to buying Bakewise, yet). For basis recipe for chocolate truffles, I chose the "Smoothest-Ever Truffles" which worked well. Since I had already made salty almonds and caraway schnaps for Christmas, the table was laid.

Ingredients
5 egg yolks
300 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa, tried two different with similar results)
170 g milk chocolate ("lys kokesjokolade")
60 ml heavy cream
50 g butter (salted)
60 ml caraway schnaps
260 g salty almonds
13 g caraway seeds

Directions
1. Almonds were chopped in food processor and mixed with caraway seeds
2. Chocolate was finely chopped in food processor
3. Cream and egg yolks were heated gently in a pan, stirring constantly until slightly thickened. Butter added and stirred over low heat until melted. Chocolate added and stirred over low heat until melted. Stirred in the caraway schnaps
4. Left to cool in the pan (4-10 °C for a few hours or overnight)
5. Scooped up and made ca. 2-3 cm (1 in) diameter rough spheres. Rolled the spheres in my hands (warm hands make them melt slightly on the surface, helping ground almonds to stick)
6. Rolled in the ground almonds/caraway-mixture and left to cool


The experience
Firstly, a burst of crunchy, salt, roasted almonds followed by rich, dark chocolate. Second, while the chocolate melts and the cocoa flavour still dominates, the caraway comes through and lingers on together with the chocolate. Balance and contrast at the same time, both in flavour and texture, taking me through various phases of experience. Also, the chocolate and caraway work very well together.

The experience is different whether I let it melt in the mouth or if I chew it. Melting in the mouth gives a stepwise flavour experience since the caraway takes some time to come through. Chewing results in all the flavours coming out at the same time.

Comments
The size of the balls seem to make a difference. Too small, and all the tastes come out at once, and the amount of salt/almond/caraway is somewhat overpowering. Making them ca. 2-3 cm (1 in) diameter gives a creamy interior and a somewhat crunchy exterior which, to me, gives the best result.

The caraway schnaps does not seem to cut through the chocolate on its own, but gives that extra bite. I tried covering with cocoa powder rather than the almond/caraway mixture, resulting in no discernible caraway flavour. Hence, the caraway schnaps on its own does not give sufficient caraway flavour.

The amount of salt and caraway is of course a matter of taste preference. Some might want to reduce the amount of salt (i.e. use more lightly salted almonds), and caraway (less caraway vs. chopped almonds). To me the given amounts work well, though.

Reference
O’Corriher, S.: Cookwise. New York: William Morrow 1997.

27 Dec 2008

Salty roasted almonds and caraway schnaps

Christmas time is making your own stuff from the basics. This year brought, amongst other things, salty almonds and caraway schnaps (aquavit).

Salty roasted almonds
  • ca. 1 l concentrated brine
  • 0.5-1 kg almonds
A very approximate, but still fool proof, method: Make a concentrated brine by dissolving as much salt as possible in ca. 1 l boiling water (takes approx 500 g or so, maybe). Dump in almonds (0.5-1 kg), as much so that the almonds are just covered. Put on lid and leave cool/cold overnight. The lower the temperature, the saltier the almonds, I usually keep them on the porch in wintertime but the fridge works well. Next day, strain and spread on a baking tray with parchment. Roast in the oven, fan turned on, at 150 °C to taste (I usually prefer 15-20 minues).

Principles governing the crystallisation of salt on the almonds
  • Rapid cooling gives small crystals. If you want larger salt crystals that crunch, cool slowly (start with placing in a warm room), and use less saturated brine.
  • A lower end temperature results in precipitation of a larger proportion of the salt, probably giving saltier almonds. For less salty almonds, leave in warmer place to cool and/or strain earlier.
The good thing about these is that no fat is involved, avoiding greasy almonds. Also, the method allows for easy production of rather large amounts (0.5-1 kg at a time) with a minimum of labour.


Caraway schnaps (aquavit)
The caraway schnaps/aquavit/snaps is inevitable at many Norwegian Christmas dinners. Making one's own (in Norway and Denmark, the term would be "dram" or "krydderdram") is in fact rather easy. Although the flavour might not be as complex as the commercial ones (sherry cask aging is not an option in our home...), I believe that the ones you make at home might be more concentrated in the spice/herb flavour. The directions follow the recipe from Rolf Øvrum:
  • 25 ml caraway seeds
  • 50 + 450 ml 40% unflavoured alcohol/ethanol (80 proof)
Mix caraway seed and 50 ml ethanol in a lidded jar and leave in room temperature for 5-6 days to extract (longer storage times results, according to the literature, in unpleasant turpentine-like flavour). Make sure that the jar is perfectly clean as the alcohol might extract remaining flavour from plastic-lined lids of jars previously used for other foods. Filter through filter paper (paper coffee filter works fine), giving a highly concentrated caraway extract. Dilute with the 450 ml ethanol, rinsing the caraway seeds and filter paper with some of the ethanol in order to recover all the extract. It is perfectly drinkable right away, but will round of well if left to mature, preferably for 3-5 months. Goes well with strong flavoured meats such as mutton or game.

Reference
Øvrum, R.: Akevitt av egen avl. Cappelen Damm 1999.

4 Dec 2008

TGRWT #13: caraway and cocoa/chocolate

"They go really well together" round no. 13 is hereby announced. In taking on the task of hosting this somewhat sinister-sounding round, I thought a whiff of Christmas might be a proper safeguard, announcing caraway and cocoa/chocolate as flavour partners.

For newcomers: TGRWT (They Go Really Well Together) is a monthly(?) open invitation to come up with dishes that combine certain given ingredients that are supposed to match well. The hypothesis is that foods containing one or more common major volatile compound will work well in combination. The result of this might thus be a range of new and, sometimes unlikely, good combinations of ingredients. For further introductions to the topic, see the foodpairing web site and the introduction to the topic at khymos.


This is how you can participate in TGRWT #13:

1. Prepare a dish that combines chocolate and caraway. You can either
use an existing recipe (if there is any) or come up with your own.

2. Take a picture of the dish and write an entry in your blog by
January 1st with TGRWT #13 in the title. Readers will be particularly
interested in how the flavour pairing worked out, so make an attempt
at describing the taste and aroma and whether you liked it or not.

3. A round-up will be posted here (with pictures). Please send an
email to erik_at_fooducation.org with the following details: Your
name, URL of blog, URL of the TGRWT #13 post and a picture for your
entry in the round-up. If you don't have a blog, email me your name,
location, recipe and a brief description of how it worked out and I'll
be glad to include it in the final round-up.

Late addition: deadline 31. December

I'll have a look in the literature, and in the round-up I hope to be able to say something about what makes these two ingredients match, at least according to the favour pairing hypothesis.