Recipes!

[gaudysalamander]

Here's what I served last night for Novroz (observed). For the record, I feel really guilty that I didn't get my act together to grow sabzeh (sprouted wheat) or make samanu (pudding made from sprouted wheat), nor did I manage to assemble the haft-sin table. But I did get all the traditional good-luck foods, and I remembered to light candles! My

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[kelkyag]

Wow. That sounds delicious, and like a ton of work. I'm glad you had good shopping and cooking minions.

I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around the stuffed fish -- I don't think I've ever had a sweet fish dish other than dried fish/squid, or fish with any fruit other than citrus. Insufficient imagination, here.

Best wishes for a sweet new year!

[gaudysalamander]

Thank you! It was a lot of fun!

I often hear that people are confused or startled by mixing fruit with meat or fish. It's really interesting to me how contemporary western cuisine has lost that, since medieval recipes often mix fruit with meats or fish. But now, as you alluded to, there are only a few combinations that people are really used to seeing: fish with citrus, pork with applesauce, turkey with cranberry, and that's all the ones I can really remember seeing in restaurants or western cookbooks/magazines. Anyway, I recommend playing around with mixing fish and fruit--it's really delicious!

[kelkyag]

Fruit with fowl or pork I'm reasonably familiar with, and fruit with beef turns up once in a while -- sauergeek makes a tasty old-school mincemeat pie with beef, apples, onions, raisin, and spices. Even shellfish and fruit once in a while -- shrimp and pineapple, say. But not scaled fish. It's a weird gap!

[gaudysalamander]

Yay! I'm glad you enjoyed it!