Hello lovely daughter,

So, here we are, an ocean apart again - Columbia, South Carolina and Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

My eye was caught by this recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi.

We went to his Islington restaurant together when you took me to the Royal Opera house to see the ballet - do you remember which ballet it was? It turned out that I had been there before but wasn't paying attention. I thought the food was wonderful, fresh and inviting and unusual. We ate some kofta and gorgeous salads and a spectacular passion fruit meringue pie. And you waxed lyrical about his cooking. I keep looking at his recipes and thinking about trying one but they often seem to have a lot of ingredients. But then we watched an episode of his BBC show on Moroccan food - piqued my interest again.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/20/black-garlic-recipes-yotam-ottolenghi?CMP=twt_gu




and you said: Num. not sure I can get black garlic though.

So, I did a quick internet search and came up with roughly 30 million results including several dedicated websites - www.blackgarlic.com for one, then there's Wikipedia's article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_garlic_(food) - most informative! But actually you can buy it online from Ottolenghi or http://www.blackgarlic.co.uk/where-to-buy/. I think it will be more of a problem for me but I'm going to go up to Decker Boulevard to see if the Korean stores have it. Slightly scary field trip!
More later

Mama