March 3rd, 2010 by Sasha Martin – Comments (1)
For four years I was in a shopping coma. Each week I drove to the nearest grocery store and wandered the aisles, filling my shopping cart with the same items as the week before. Milk, yogurt, iceberg, ground turkey log, etc. Boring.
Then I started the Global Table project. In just over a month I have ventured into four Tulsa specialty stores – Indian, Middle Eastern, Mexican, and a fish market. My shopping cart never looks the same. I am revived. There is a spark in my eye. Life is good.
This weekend’s Andorran meal called for whole Trout – not a popular item in regular grocery stores – so I decided to check out Bodeans Fish Market (51st & Harvard). The staff was friendly and the fish looked wonderful – fresh and happy. After ogling the inventory for twenty minutes, I danced out of their shop with four beautiful Ruby Trout.
I love when ingredient scavenger hunts end with me finding the perfect item for my dishes. Thanks to Bodeans, the Andorran meal really pulled together. We had Pa amb Tomaquet, Trinxat, Trout, Warm Spinach and Mushroom salad, and Brac de Gitane. Check out the entire meal: here.
About the Author:
Do you love International Cuisine? So does Sasha Martin. After all, she lived in Europe for six years and traveled to 11 countries before her 18th birthday. Then, while earning her B.A. at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT), she wrote an honors thesis entitled “The History of Artisan Bread Baking in France.” After college, Sasha attended the Culinary Institue of America for a year (Hyde Park, NY). In 2005, her CIA internship brought her to Bama Pie’s R&D kitchens, right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Not long after she got here, Sasha met the love of her life and decided to stick around. There was just one problem: she missed the foreign foods she grew up with. A lightbult went off when she realized “Hey, I can make international foods right here in Tulsa!” and that’s just exactly what she’s doing.
Today Sasha is on a mission to cook one meal for every country in the world. That’s 195 meals! And, guess what? She’s doing it in 195 weeks. You can can follow her journey at the Global Table or by checking out her weekly update on Wednesday’s here at TulsaFood.com
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Brian Schwartz Mar 3, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I’ve just tried one of your earlier recipes, the Hot Algerian Lasagna, and I’m putting my comment here since if I put it in your older post no one will read it. Well we just ate it and it was WONDERFUL!! All the flavors blended together and, though if I thought about the filling I’d say yes, that’s North African, when I ate it I realized it was the perfect lasagna. I must confess I didn’t cook it, it was my friend Cathe, one of my mom’s nurses, and she spent days hunting up all the ingredients and all day today making it. But it was worth it! It is really difficult to design a lasagna recipe that works, and that’s especially true of no-boil lasagna sheets, so your CIA training paid off. Thank you!
Recipe: http://globaltable.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/recipe-hot-algerian-lasagna/
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