Sunday, August 24, 2025

Food--Origins of the Bloomin' Onion--

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/who-really-invented-the-blooming-onion-peeling-open-the-world-s-greasiest-mystery?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
It's deep fried in a batter--I suggest you make the batter of besan (check pea flour) rather than white flour--or whole wheat flour (atta).
Uses a lot of cooking oil which you can reuse to cook with--but do not refry it--that would make it trans fat--see above.

Oh--my big mistake--The White Countess was written by Nobel Laureate

Kazao Ishiguru, whom I met once at a book signing in Philadelphia, way back in the 1990s. And it's not Liam Neeson--it's Ralph Fien...