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Food Blog Report #27

#1: From Stockholm, Sweden: Clivia's Cuisine and her marvelous Swiss chard dolmadas with rice and mushrooms! A gem of a recipe, and it looks delicious…

Last week I visited Rosendals trädgårdar at Djurgården in Stockholm and found a big bunch of Swiss chard for only 15 SEK, so I bought it without even thinking what to make of it. I put it in a vase on our kitchen table and turned to my trusted cooking guru Anna Bergenström for advice. I have written about her before and cannot praise this woman enough. She is simply the best! I use her cookbooks all the time and have yet to try a recipe of hers I don´t like. These Swiss chard dolmadas was another success! She gave the recipe in the book more like a description than a recipe with exact measures and I describe it in the same way.Get the recipe now!

#2: From Argentina, SaltShaker shares a recipe to prepare "Peruvian Tuna Casserole"

The addition of canned tuna to the classic Peruvian mashed potato dish, causa, was no doubt an improvement in the nutritional content of the dish, since prior to that it seems it was not much more than cold seasoned mashed potatoes, but it has also led to arguments amongst the Peruvian foodie community over authenticity and limits on creativity. Not being a fan of the latter, and while caring enough to pay tribute to the former, not being a slave to it, I’m game to take recipes in varying directions. So this is my first tuna causa (making, not eating), in fact, my first causa period…Read the complete post!

#3: From the U.K., Food In the Main writes about a traditional recipe to prepare Cabbage Thogayal (chutney)

Just another of the variations on thogayal or chutney that are made in homes all over South India - and in homes all over the world wherever there are South Indians.

This time I used cabbage - green cabbage, which made my thogayal look quite pretty with little green flecks from the cabbage and little red flecks from the dried red chillies and golden bits of fried urad dal. Thogayal in general is really best when eaten fresh - keeping it in the fridge overnight detracts a lot from taste and texture. Continue reading…

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China: Money's on the TV

John Kennedy · 16:44

Two quick thoughts: A look at Chinese television [zh] from Southern Metropolis Daily columnist and Lian Yue's Eighth Continent blogger Lian Yue (连岳) dated August 5:

作为权力玩物的电视台

TV Station as Plaything of Power

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After almost a month of continuous bombing, most of Bahrain's bloggers have strayed away from covering Lebanon and Palestine and turned their attention to home affairs - except for Sabbah, who continues to provide blanket coverage of the atrocities being committed against Arabs in the occupied territories.

He even posts the complete speech of Hizbulla‘s leader Hassan Nasrulla, in which he doesn't mince his words and threaten to hit Tel Aviv should the atrocities continue.

“If you strike Beirut, the Islamic Resistance will strike Tel Aviv and it is able to do so,” Nasrallah said.

“(If) at any time you decide to stop your campaigns on our cities, suburbs, civilians and infrastructure, we won’t strike with rockets any settlement or Israeli city …” he said.

“You can’t destroy Hizbollah … because the resistance is not a classic army or a regular state …” he said. “The resistance is a people who has the belief, the will and who loves martyrdom.

“The resistance will not be broken, the resistance will not be defeated.”

“The Israeli army is a giant machine that is blind, stupid and incapable,” he said.

“I assure (you that) whatever the results of the war, Lebanon won’t be American and Lebanon won’t be Israeli and Lebanon won’t be one of the bases for the ‘new Middle East’ which George Bush wants and which Condoleezza Rice wants,” he said.

Mahmood Al Yousif, meanwhile, mocks Arab countries for their lack of action (!!) regarding Lebanon.

“So, at last they have awoken to attend an Arab Foreign Ministerial conference in Beirut next Monday to:

It will be a high level congregation that will demonstrate to the world Arab solidarity with Lebanon and outright rejection of the Israeli aggression against it. Moreover it will repudiate the UN security council’s ineptness in effectuating a decisive ceasefire in Lebanon

Oooh, they will REPUDIATE the UN for its ineptness! That brings another idiom to mind: the pot calling the kettle black!” he writes.

Away from wars and destruction on a regional scale, Silly Bahraini Girl, a Bahraini blogger now in Ontario, Canada, is also back to ranting this week with two posts.
In the first she expresses her exasperation at the way foreign workers are treated in her country, where:
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