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Comment by Salma Kamal on October 25, 2009 at 4:33am - The most important/frequently used spices in Pakistani and Indian (south east asia)cuisine are chilli pepper, black mustard seed (rai), cumin (jeera), turmeric (haldi, ), fenugreek (methi), , ginger (adrak, ), coriander (dhania), and garlic (lassan, ). Popular spice mixes are garam masala which is usually a powder of five or more dried spices, commonly including cardamom, cinnamon,black pepper, cumin and clove. Each region, and sometimes each individual chef, has a distinctive blend of Garam Masala.
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Comment by Kate on June 15, 2009 at 5:00pm -
Hi Heather. I live near Maggie and grow what she grows! Maggie knows a lot about .....well, everything! Any way I grow several Asian water vegetables in large tubs. Entsai, or water spinach, is a very successful one and I just buy a bunch of fresh leaves and stems from the shop, cut the top 75% off and eat it and put the bottom of the stems in a vase. Within a week the roots begin to develop and once it is robust I plant it into rich compost in one of the tubs. At this stage I just keep the soil very moist and as it grows in height, I begin to fill the tub with water. I regularly pick the leaves all summer and it is one of my favourite leaf and stem vegetables. The stems are gorgeously crisp and not at all stringy and the leaves have a mild spinachy flavour, not a distinctive Asian flavour. It never goes to seed before it dies back in late autumn as I suppose it is too cold here.
I also grow water chestnuts, watercress and taro and I am on the look out for more edible water vegetables and herbs which tend to be Asian but I am not fussy where they come from.
A water garden is a lovely thing to have in our dry climate and by covering the surface in a creeping, green cover plant. such as azola, it keeps the evaporation down, the water clear and the mosquitoes out.
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