Two more wonderful recipes cooked tonight: Orange Jicama Salad and Pea Soup East African Style (both on page 46 of Bill Irwin's cookbook). You may be wondering what Jicama (Hee-Ka-Ma) is? It is one of nature's nearly perfect foods with a very high vitamin C content, lots of fiber and no fat. It is a root vegetable grown in Mexico. It is a root vegetable with vines growing in excess of 20 feet! The tuber is globe shaped with skin like a potato and I found it at Wal-Mart!
The salad is crunchy and very sweet and tasty. The soup was refreshingly different with a great texture and flavor. Both recipes get a check +.
I am thoroughly enjoying Judith Jones' (Julia Child's publisher and long time friend) book, The Tenth Muse, My Life in Food. She tells of her post college days living in Paris and discovering with delight, the joy of French cooking and the joy of using garlic for the first time in her life, much to the horror of her aristocratic, New England mother. If you enjoyed Julie and Julia, you will love this book. As Oprah says, "The Tenth Muse lets you pull up a chair at the table where American Gastronomic History took place." Enjoy...................
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Ruth, I am enjoying my book too. I read a little each night in bed and I feel as thought I am in her home and she is telling me her life story. It is very good. SO glad we got to meet her together and so thankful for our day out and we need to plan another one as soon as you get our precious friend Sam taken care of. We love you both SO very much.
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