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Mango Pomelo Sago: A Classic Summer Dessert of Hong Kong
One of the most classic and most popular summer desserts that I had growing up as a child in the Canton area in China was Mango Pomelo Sago (楊枝金露). It is hands down my all-time favorite. This healthy dessert is a must try. It has a very unique taste, and it just quenches your summer thirst with the mangos and the citrus as its featured ingredients.
By Milo The Legend4 years ago in Feast
Summer: the taste of the outdoors
The Taste of the Outdoors The salmon flesh is soft, flaking away easily in pastel pink segments with the gentlest nudge of your fork. The Jersey royals are piping hot and buttery. A side salad of garden green runner beans, dressed with olive oil and a dash of white wine vinegar is ready and waiting. But the taste of summer truly comes when you pick up your plate and carry it out through the patio doors into the sun-soaked garden. With that gentle step past the walls of the house that encircle the inside like a protective membrane, you are transported to a new culinary land, a land where food sounds like the hum of the bees and butterflies around you. A land where food smells like green things growing in the rich dark soil. A land where food tastes, quite simply, like summer on a plate.
By Holly Moeller4 years ago in Feast
Steak Sliders Anyone? No, I'm Not Talking About Any Old Run-of-the-Mill Burger
It was a lovely day. The wedding was over three years in the making thanks to Covid-19, so everyone in attendance was ecstatic to see the greatly anticipated day go so smoothly.
By Madison "Maddy" Newton4 years ago in Feast
Intertidal Magic
I am not a native Pacific Northwesterner. My husband and children have that birthright; for me, I fell in love in my twenties with this misty region where snow-capped volcanoes and rocky mountains mingle with temperate rainforests and orcas frequent the inland sea. It is home to giant tides, where the vertical height of the water can change by sixteen feet within a single day- it can creep over shorelines to shape beaches at one point, and twelve hours later it will draw back to the point that entire bays and sandbars appear, the waterline now more than a thousand feet from shore. It is here, within the mysterious intertidal zone, that my favorite mysteries of the Northwest lay waiting to be discovered. It is also home to one of my favorite delicacies, intertidal clams.
By Penny Fuller4 years ago in Feast
The Skewered Pork Barbecue
Summer tastes like an abominably spiced-up, sizzling-hot pork barbecue to me. Interestingly, I do not remember how many times I have said that, but it is more than a few times. To be fair, summer also smells like a lot of other things to me; freshly-cut grass, salt water, suntan lotion, scorching sun on white sand, sun-bleached sheets on a cool bed, and scalloped potatoes—and I can barely believe the sheer coincidence between the first option in this essay prompt and my actual, real-life olfactory relationship to summertime. Oh, and how can I forget Shalimar; the favorite—and quite frankly, exclusive—fragrance of Mrs. Denali.
By Sarah Elisha4 years ago in Feast
Just Right
My favourite summer food is chocolate. This is because my favourite food is chocolate. In the winter time, chocolate is warm hued riches, a gratifyingly fatty sparkle of the exotic, a hug tinged with eroticism even as it holds you safe like a loving parent. In the summer, chocolate is….the same. But also, a little sickly and prone to melting. Like me, chocolate was not made for hot climates, and I, alas, was not made for chocolate, every dose plunging me into hours of lying still in darkened rooms, my head splintering in ultra slow motion. This is not an optimal way to enjoy the bounty of summer, and so let me turn my attention to other foods, if not rivals, then other runners, worthy of note.
By Hannah Moore4 years ago in Feast
Destination Picnics
Every time I eat a sub sandwich, I know something is missing. It can be a top-rated ensemble, but if it is not eaten in the right context, it will not compare. Sure, it tastes great, yet there is a piece of me that knows it is not right. Somewhere along the way, there was a wrong turn. Let me explain by taking you back to my childhood days.
By Megan Somero4 years ago in Feast
Food for the Soul. Top Story - June 2022.
There is no single food that entirely encapsulates summer. Such constriction in this season of freedom is unnatural. Summertime is for Mom and Pop’s places; for make-shift melon stands; for pomegranate-stained fingers and popsicle-painted faces. It’s for that blackberry cobbler recipe your great aunt tucked in the back of her bible, all the while, claiming dessert this good has got to be a sin. It’s the closest we get to the good ole days and the furthest we get from the troubles of now.
By Hailey Narvaez4 years ago in Feast
