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Kaffir revealed!

The answer to What is it? Part 4 is Kaffir Lime (Citrus hystrix).

My neighbour has a beautiful kaffir lime tree growing in a pot near her front door. Knowing I’m a keen cook she generously suggested I take as many fruit and leaves as I want. So the weekend curry had to be Thai (red beef curry with peanuts). The zest and juice of these wonderfully knobbled (almost brain-like) fruit provide lots of astringent zing. The characteristic double-jointed leaves¹ are also used widely in Thai and other south-east asian cuisines. They have a fresh, sour taste.

No pics of the curry I’m afraid.

1. actually only one half is the leaf proper, the other is a flattened petiole [↩]

5 comments March 28th, 2009

What is it Part4 supplimentary

Two more impressions of What is it 4 to make it very easy.

I’ll show this in its full glory in the next post.

6 comments March 26th, 2009

What is it Part 4

Sorry about the long absence. Glad that my friends banded together and kept the internet going while I was quiet. Here’s a new “what is it?” for you.

An easy one again I suspect. Soon as you guess it I’ll post the related article.

4 comments March 24th, 2009

The blues

1 comment March 1st, 2009