Two in the morning there's a drink in my hand

[venta]

Probably the most entertaining kedgeree recipe you will ever read

I will be trying it out just as soon as I have a spare morning. It sounds way better than my recipe.

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Dirt, dirt, dirty Martini

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I used to love kedgeree… sadly don't suppose there will ever really be a veggie equiv.

And I used to love Luke Haines too – good to see he's still getting up to stuff! That blog looks a wee bit sporadic…

One kudo to you, sir!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Apparently (http://zotz.livejournal.com/383057.html) Mr Haines' latest literary efforts are worth reading, though I haven't tested them personally yet.

Re: One kudo to you, sir!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, I should really get to reading that.

Re: Dirt, dirt, dirty Martini

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wonder if a veggie equivalent could be made with smoked halloumi...

Re: Dirt, dirt, dirty Martini

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

It would be very nice, I'm sure. But it wouldn't be equivalent. Not in my mind, anyway… There's nothing quite like smoked fish. Most of all I used to like smoked mackerel, preferably with granary toast.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Yup, I guarantee they will never make a veggie equivalent of that!

Re: Dirt, dirt, dirty Martini

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Too rubbery, surely. Smoked tofu would be too tofu-ey. Hrrm. There must be something you can smoke

Can you poach lentils in milk? I've never tried, so I don't know.

If you can, then maybe you could saute some onion and really smokey smoked garlic with your spices. Add the lentils and then milk to poach. Once cooked, drain. Use (some of) the liquid (mixed with stock/water) to cook your rice. Once the rice is cooked, then stir in the onion/garlic/lentil/spice mixture and hard boiled eggs and a decent fistful of chopped fresh parsley. Maybe a hit of lemon juice.

Obviously you're still going to be absent the flakey texture, and the essentially fishy flavour, but other than that I think it might work.

Assuming you can poach lentils in milk, that is.

Re: Dirt, dirt, dirty Martini

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Still not sure about the poaching in milk (I like my kedgeree to have a slightly creamy texture), but a quick google for 'vegetarian kedgeree' does seem to indicate lentils are the way to go.

None of them seem to be really doing very much about the smokiness though, and this one features vegetarian black pudding, which I don't understand. Is there a less vegetarian thing than black pudding?

Re: Dirt, dirt, dirty Martini

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Arborio rice? Puy lentils? Vegetable stock? That recipe is sheer stark madness.

I'm intrigued by the notion of veggie black pudding though, I wonder what the heck is in it (and why).

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I wonder what the heck is in it

Lose 2D6 SAN for your musings!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Definitely!

Re: Dirt, dirt, dirty Martini

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

A really good, firm smoked tofu might do the trick. The Viana one doesn't really taste of tofu, just of smoky saltiness.

Re: Dirt, dirt, dirty Martini

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

It's the fishiness which is the best thing about kedgeree afaics, and sadly that seems a lot more difficult to simulate -- even in a very generalized way -- than meatiness does. I expect there's some good biochemical reason for that…