TIL what the ancient Mesopotamians ate for dinner - eviltoast

for the lamb stew known as tu’hu, first you get water. Then you sear leg meat in fat. In go salt, beer, onion, rocket, coriander, Persian shallot, cumin, beets, water. Crushed leek and garlic and more coriander, for a fiery taste. Then add kurrat, an Egyptian leek.

  • ruckblack@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    You think it’s spicy? I’ve never heard that honestly. A little peppery tasting, sure, but not spicy. Unless there’s spicy varieties of it or something.

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      3 months ago

      I mean… not jalapeno spicy, but I’d say it’s on the radish level if it’s decent.

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          3 months ago

          They certainly have a bite to them, though I don’t know if spicy is the word I’d use exactly.

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          3 months ago

          Long European radishes are mild, the round American ones are quite spicy, like mustard or horse_radish_.

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              3 months ago

              Like they said… what do you think horseradish is? For that matter, what do you think wasabi is?

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                3 months ago

                I thought wasabi was its own unique root veggie type, didn’t realize it was a radish relative. Horseradish obviously, but if we’re talking the round red radishes you get in the produce section, those aren’t spicy. Mildly peppery at best, but I would never refer to them as spicy per se.

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      3 months ago

      A word that is sometimes used is “piquant”, rocket is just another kind of mustard essentially and it can be hot like mustard can be (think how wasabi is spicy; the greens are not as spicy as wasabi generally, but it’s on the same spectrum).