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Disconcerting Food Observation

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 03:54pm on 2005-03-18

Y'know, I find it downright disturbing, how easy it is to inadvertently synthesize tuna-like flavours from vegetarian ingredients.

(Well, more tuna-salad-like than straight-tuna-like, but the tunaness is in there. And it's not the first time I've accidentally done this.)

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posted by [personal profile] gingicat at 09:25pm on 2005-03-18
There are some vegetable combinations that do that (marinated things especially). My cat will come begging when I eat babaganoush, and I think it's the faux fishiness.
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posted by [identity profile] rendancer.livejournal.com at 09:29pm on 2005-03-18
hehe...oh my!
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posted by [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com at 10:39pm on 2005-03-18
So what's the secret there?
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 04:22pm on 2005-03-19
I'm not quite sure yet which combination(s) are doing it, since I don't take notes as I probably ought to while cooking, and I've only anaged this trick by accident. When I figure out how to do it, I'll know how to avoid it (and at that time I'll also pass the info to folks who might want to do it on purpose).

As [livejournal.com profile] tigerbright and [livejournal.com profile] dsrtao have mentioned here, it's easy to get partway there with hummus-based or hummus-like things, but there were no chickpeas in yesterday's example. (And although I do notice that aspect of hummus and baba ganoush, it's not as disconcerting there -- I think it's either less intense, or a different subset of tunosity than this curious interaction of spices and onions I'm running into.)

Additional analysis as my note-taking improves ...
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posted by [personal profile] dsrtao at 01:13am on 2005-03-19
chickpeas, onion, celery, mayo, pepper; a little mashing of the chickpeas and it's basically tuna salad.
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