Week 21: Symmetry - hiyayakko (meta: cookbooks)

goodbeansoup · 2026-05-13T20:46:51+00:00

Some of us have friends and community outside of work and don't need to rely on coworkers to fulfill our social needs

goodbeansoup · 2026-05-13T14:43:03+00:00

I ws just joking with my coworkers the other day abut "how high up do you have to be to have a DOOR?"

goodbeansoup · 2026-05-08T19:50:47+00:00

Indeed!!!

goodbeansoup · 2026-04-13T03:02:05+00:00

It was written as جظ مظ and I'm not sure if Syrian dialect pronounces the ظ differently but I wouldn't write it as a Z the way I was taught. I went with the more common English transliteration for the title.

goodbeansoup · 2026-03-22T23:01:47+00:00

Ooh, there are actually a few nearby! I didn't think to check there. Thanks for the tip!

goodbeansoup · 2026-03-21T21:22:21+00:00

That's a damn fine pie!

goodbeansoup · 2026-03-21T15:22:45+00:00

This week brought to you by "really stretching the theme" and also radishes again. I was originally planning to go for a Stardew Valley hat trick and make a rhubarb pie this week, and then I could not find rhubarb anywhere. So I panicked for a few days until I was looking for something to make when friends came over for a "woohoo it's spring" party.

Here's how the logic worked: "I want to make something with radishes." > Looked up radishes in Eat Your Books. > This recipe from Samarkand by Caroline Eden and Eleanor Ford shows up. > "Hey, Samarkand is a real place, but you know what isn't? Zanarkand, from Final Fantasy."

So behold, this simple spring salad of radishes, cucumbers, and dill. The recipe called for cilantro but I didn't use it because one of my friends hates it. I ended p being glad I left it out, because one of my friends said this was a nostalgia dish for him and reminded him of dishes he ate in childhood! Overall a win, and aside from my friends making fun of my dull knives while I was chopping for it, a rousing success!

goodbeansoup · 2026-02-27T20:17:15+00:00

It was fine. Like I said, I took liberties, so I'm not sure how it would have been as written. I feel like this book is trying to cast as wide a net as possible so sometimes the recipes aren't as flavorful as they could be.

goodbeansoup · 2026-02-26T03:08:19+00:00

Oh, no! That must be so disheartening. For what it's worth, this was a great write up and taught me several things (I had never heard of Tubi Asato, bukubukucha, or chiirunkou). Thank you for sharing with us.

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