An Introduction to Buffaloes

[River Buffaloes]

What are your favorite spices and what do you use most often. Oh, and what vegetables/meats do you use them on?

Only thing we cook without spices are rice and roti. However there are several rice and roti dishes that use spices, but those are not eaten daily. Otherwise there are spices even for tea.

 

[River Buffaloes]

This is what we mean when we say, the deeper the swamp, the happier the Buffalo.

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[Kusanar]

I love all spices, but two things that is essential in every savoury dish or drink is cumin seeds and peppercorns. They are essential, you can't do without them. Similarly Green cardamom and cinnamon is essential in desserts. Fennel seeds are used in sweet drinks. Asafoetida must be used in lentils and pulses.

I have heard very interesting things about Asafoetida. I have never smelled it but everyone talks about putting it in several layers of plastic wrap to keep it from stinking up the kitchen. These same people say it is great in food, just smells really funky.

Do you have any vinegar based drinks? There is one I like that is vinegar (apple cider vinegar), lemon, and honey that is kind of like a very old and basic sports drink due to the vitamins in the vinegar and lemon plus the sugar from the honey.

 

[Kusanar]

This is what we mean when we say, the deeper the swamp, the happier the Buffalo.

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Do they mess up the water or just wallow? Cows will urinate and defecate in the water that they are standing in and drinking. I had cows in my pond this weekend, it was hot and they had been let into that field so they were wallowing in the water enjoying themselves.

 

[River Buffaloes]

I have heard very interesting things about Asafoetida. I have never smelled it but everyone talks about putting it in several layers of plastic wrap to keep it from stinking up the kitchen. These same people say it is great in food, just smells really funky.

Do you have any vinegar based drinks? There is one I like that is vinegar (apple cider vinegar), lemon, and honey that is kind of like a very old and basic sports drink due to the vitamins in the vinegar and lemon plus the sugar from the honey.

We do put vinegar on salads and some meat dishes like vindaloo, but we are not very vinegar loving culture. We have a lot of things to make food sour like buttermilk, tamarind, raw mango, lemons there are so many kinds of lemons, the lemon plant was domesticated here.

There are few food stuffs that people are often very divided on. Either people like it or hate it, there's no middle ground, they are asafoetida, fennel seeds, black cardamom, Himalayan salt, ripe jackfruit and colostrum.

 

[River Buffaloes]

Do they mess up the water or just wallow? Cows will urinate and defecate in the water that they are standing in and drinking. I had cows in my pond this weekend, it was hot and they had been let into that field so they were wallowing in the water enjoying themselves.

Oh yeah, they will turn the pond into a pond of chocolate shake.

 

[Kusanar]

We do put vinegar on salads and some meat dishes like vindaloo, but we are not very vinegar loving culture. We have a lot of things to make food sour like buttermilk, tamarind, raw mango, lemons there are so many kinds of lemons, the lemon plant was domesticated here.

There are few food stuffs that people are often very divided on. Either people like it or hate it, there's no middle ground, they are asafoetida, fennel seeds, black cardamom, Himalayan salt, ripe jackfruit and colostrum.

How about Durian? lol

I believe fennel has a licorice flavor. Not sure I have had any of the others. I will try anything once, I may hate it and not want it again, but I will at least try it once.

We also have Ginko here as shade trees, they SHOULD be propagated from cuttings from male trees but some less than honest nurseries around here started a bunch from seed and sold them to the city... now we have a bunch of female trees dropping fruit that smells like vomit on the ground and sidewalks.

 

[River Buffaloes]

How about Durian? lol

I believe fennel has a licorice flavor. Not sure I have had any of the others. I will try anything once, I may hate it and not want it again, but I will at least try it once.

We also have Ginko here as shade trees, they SHOULD be propagated from cuttings from male trees but some less than honest nurseries around here started a bunch from seed and sold them to the city... now we have a bunch of female trees dropping fruit that smells like vomit on the ground and sidewalks.

We don't have durian here, I have heard about it though. They say that it is like jackfruit, but it's not nearly as sweet and tasty. Ripe jackfruits have a strong, floral and sweet aroma and the pods are slimy. I don't know why but some people like me just can't resist the smell and many other people just can't stand that smell. I sometimes can't believe how can 50% people absolutely love something and 50% of the people can't even stand the smell.

I have heard about that ginko tree, they are a living fossil, the animal they relied on to spread fruits has long gone extinct, but ginko trees are still dropping their smelly fruits for them. Similarly jackfruits are designed to be eaten by elephants. It's the largest fruit in the world, it grows at the height at wich elephants can access them easily. The pods are slippery so the seeds can't get chewed. In many parts of the world elephants are long gone, but jackfruit trees are still growing fruits for them.

 

[Kusanar]

We don't have durian here, I have heard about it though. They say that it is like jackfruit, but it's not nearly as sweet and tasty. Ripe jackfruits have a strong, floral and sweet aroma and the pods are slimy. I don't know why but some people like me just can't resist the smell and many other people just can't stand that smell. I sometimes can't believe how can 50% people absolutely love something and 50% of the people can't even stand the smell.

I have heard about that ginko tree, they are a living fossil, the animal they relied on to spread fruits has long gone extinct, but ginko trees are still dropping their smelly fruits for them. Similarly jackfruits are designed to be eaten by elephants. It's the largest fruit in the world, it grows at the height at wich elephants can access them easily. The pods are slippery so the seeds can't get chewed. In many parts of the world elephants are long gone, but jackfruit trees are still growing fruits for them.

Like that one tree ( I can't remember it's name) that they discovered an entire forest of them that were around 100 years old and no young ones but the ground was completely covered in fruit. Turns out, the fruit has a very tough outer shell and was eaten by dodo birds before they were driven to extinction and without the dodo birds they can't reproduce anymore. They force fed some seeds to turkeys and they were able to get some seedlings to grow.

Plant and animal relationships like that fascinate me.

 

[Bruce]

Asafoetida must be used in lentils and pulses.

I had to look that up
"Asafoetida is the dried latex exuded from the rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula, perennial herbs growing 1 to 1.5 m tall. They are part of the celery family, Umbelliferae. Wikipedia"

Somehow dried rubber doesn't sound very appetizing

I don't think my pond is deep enough for River buffalo