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I eat quite a lot of maki so I get some input from seaweed - though I guess the wrap is not kombu - which  I'll look out for, next time I visit the ethnic food area in the Kallio district of Helsinki. I need to stock up on PG Tips too, and brown basmati, and marmite, and horlicks - oh dear, a major shopping trip.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 06:19:03 AM EST
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try arame and wakame while you're at it. they are easy to sneak into soups in discreet enough amounts not to raise an eyebrow.

dulse was the first one i tried, and i got such a good hit i ate the whole packet!

then i got turned on to sushi nori, which we'd roll with all sorts of things like salads, not just rice and wasabi.

then i tried a wakame/tomato salad, and that was a knockout. then i started feeling when i didn't eat them for a while, so started using regularly.

the fried crispy kombu, that is by far the best though... hiziki is the strongest flavour, i wouldn't start with that one, though there are some great recipes for it. if you soak seaweed, pour the water onto your animal's food, or on plants.

agar-agar is useful for gels.

i go to an ethnic food shop too, we get shitake mushrooms there at about a sixth of the price of the health food store.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Mar 11th, 2010 at 10:32:53 AM EST
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