{"id":1432,"date":"2010-12-20T21:55:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2010-12-20T21:55:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T20:55:54","slug":"the-soul-of-the-sole-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"The Soul of the Sole Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Asha Poyzer, on location in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n

‘Two days ago I cooked a meal at home, something that has been happening less and less since my\u00a0wife\u00a0and I moved to Austin, Texas. It was such an enlivening process that I want to share the experience and the meal with you. When it was time to cook I knew that I was going to make fish cakes (requested by my wife!) and a salad. She’d bought me a garden in a local community gardens scheme a few months ago, we planted it with a good selection of herbs and greens, so I headed out down through the\u00a0neighborhood, walking under the huge and winter bound trees that line the quiet streets\u00a0to pick out a selection of super fresh homegrown leaves and herbs. Having a community garden is really nice, it might be small but it is surrounded by lots of other\u00a0gardeners, wisdom and inspiration. There is also a basketball court and I have made friends with a father and son who play together nearly every night, so going to the garden often involves a good\u00a0conversation. There is a voice inside me, getting louder and more firm by the day, saying that being in touch with my life in such ways as growing food is the direction I need to be heading.<\/p>\n

I had decided to cook the cakes using the oven. There is quite a\u00a0discrepancy\u00a0of\u00a0grandeur\u00a0between the hob and oven. The oven being a very cheap and microwave combination and the hob being a hardcore\u00a0commercial\u00a0burner! We have made a few\u00a0experiments\u00a0with the combi oven recently, now it is *technically* winter in Austin, and it seems to work well enough,\u00a0producing roast veg and even a loaf of bread. For the fish cake I used mostly dover sole and then a little salmon, purple potatoes, white onion, garlic, dill (from the garden) and a spicy homemade apple-cider grain mustard. I had been given some persimmon by a\u00a0neighbor\u00a0who has a tree in his garden and so I made a persimmon chutney to\u00a0accompany\u00a0the cake using, red onion, nutmeg,\u00a0cardamom, red\u00a0chili, clove, a little rice syrup all cooked down in cider\u00a0vinegar. It produced a wonderful and warming\u00a0flavor! I used fresh red kale from the garden with onion carrot and red cabbage stir-fried in a toasted sesame oil and made a garden salad from homegrown pak choi\u00a0and two different red\u00a0lettuce\u00a0mixed with cucumber and red radish all marinated in a homemade parsley (from garden) almond and chickpea miso sauce. To bite through some of the heavier and oily flavor of the meal I steeped a little white onion in umi\u00a0vinegar. Finishing the look of the plate with a fan of ripe avocado, it was ready to eat. Alongside good music and conversation we both felt very satisfied after eating! I loved cooking and experimenting with such wonderful ingredients, it is certainly my new years resolution to home cook a lot more!’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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