Granola

Lesley · Post by **Lesley** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:17 pm

Last week we had a VERY long power cut. This is an old building with ancient wiring. There are 420 apartments, so a lot of people putting pressure on the system. 2-3 day cuts have been reported here, though I have only experienced one that lasted overnight.
Still, it was enough to make me very nervous because I realized I had NOTHING I could eat in the house without cooking.
As a result I have been thinking of foods to keep around JIC I end up needing food and I can't either get out, or cook.

I can tolerate oats, canola oil, honey, and I have been trying out seeds and raisins. I find I can tolerate a small amount. So I made granola. I figure having granola would ensure I have something nourishing to eat JIC. And I will need to keep the jar full!

I will keep cans of fish, and fruit (I am tolerating AND enjoying canned peaches) in my cupboard.

Also, in South Africa, Jewish women used to make a great sweet and sour pickled fried fish. I have been trying to fry fish lately, but have yet to figure out a good coating for it. I tried sorghum flour with spices in it, but it doesn't make a good coating. It doesn't come close to egg and breadcrumb. Nothing sticks.
Any ideas anyone?

Once the fish is fried, saute a bunch of onion, add vinegar, sugar, curry powder, whole peppers (of you like them, I don't) and make enough sauce to taste to layer between the slices of fish. Store in a glass jar.
Keeps in the fridge for as long as you can keep people's hands off it. It didn't last long in our house.

It's very nutritious, and a great quick, light dish. I used to have beetroot salad, fresh bread and usually a cabbage salad with caraway seed in the fridge, so anyone who wanted something to eat other than hummus, turkish salad (very middle eastern red, spicy salad) and red cabbage salad with the best pitot (plural of pita) could have a great lunch.

Point is it keeps, even if you have a power cut for a few days.

Any more ideas?

harma · Post by **harma** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:07 am

poor you, being without electricity so often and so long. Isn't it cold in the building than. The view power cuts I had in Holland during winter, the cold is the worse. Heating is on gas, but the boiler for the central heating system also needs electricity..

Are you from south africa lesley? And remembering another email about the haring, do you speak zuid-afrikaans? Than if so, I we would ever meet in the middle east (and of course in time we will

) we can speak Dutch/Zuid-Afrikaans with each other. Of course I don't speak zuid-afrikaans, but I can understand it. For me it sounds like a strange kind of Dutch.

Lesley · Post by **Lesley** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:19 pm

I live in LA, where it has been very warm up till now. It's getting a bit colder, but not terribly cold. When we had the cut it was a heat wave, so it wasn't bad.

I was born and grew up in Zuid Afrika. I understand Afrikaans, but don't speak. I don't understand spoken Dutch, but I can sometimes read it because the words LOOK the same. Grammar, off course, is different.
We will have to speak English.

I really would LOVE to meet you, Harma. I hope I will be there in the spring!

draperygoddess · Post by **draperygoddess** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:10 am

Wow, I have such interesting forum friends!

Very exotic!

Lesley · Post by **Lesley** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:26 pm

Cynthia,

Only in America would a Dutch woman (albeit living in Jordan) and a Jewish woman (Israeli, born in S. Africa and living in CA) be considered exotic. All over the rest of the world this is normal!

In Europe the distances are very small compared to the states, so moving country to country is not difficult. Flying to London from Israel takes less time than flying CA to NY, NY. Jordan and Israel border each other. You can go from one end of Israel to the other in less than a day - driving!
So people travel and interact. In Europe this is everyday life, and Israel and Jordan might be the ME, but they are very close to Europe.