Mark Meckes
17th January 2001, 04:50 AM
Posted Jan 17, 2001 (bamboocrafts group)
While treking through the jungles of Papua New Guinea during the early 1970's, we would often set up camp in clearings that were abandoned gardens returning to jungle.
Here we could find wild squash, sweet-potato and spinach-like leaves, and bamboo.
The food was prepared, then placed into a green bamboo culm.
Leafy material was stuffed in the end and cooked over a fire, turning the bamboo occasionally, for about an hour.
Though it's been a quarter century since I cooked in bamboo, I can still taste and smell, as if my last meal, the delicious flavours!
Highly recommended!!!!!!!
I shall try this again sometime, using different species of bamboo,other ingredients and recipes.
Perhaps it could done during a heat-treating process of bamboos for craft, preparing a meal at the same time. (!?)
...I wonder if a carrot could be steam-cooked this way in a smaller diameter bamboo ?
Any other ideas ?
Mark
While treking through the jungles of Papua New Guinea during the early 1970's, we would often set up camp in clearings that were abandoned gardens returning to jungle.
Here we could find wild squash, sweet-potato and spinach-like leaves, and bamboo.
The food was prepared, then placed into a green bamboo culm.
Leafy material was stuffed in the end and cooked over a fire, turning the bamboo occasionally, for about an hour.
Though it's been a quarter century since I cooked in bamboo, I can still taste and smell, as if my last meal, the delicious flavours!
Highly recommended!!!!!!!
I shall try this again sometime, using different species of bamboo,other ingredients and recipes.
Perhaps it could done during a heat-treating process of bamboos for craft, preparing a meal at the same time. (!?)
...I wonder if a carrot could be steam-cooked this way in a smaller diameter bamboo ?
Any other ideas ?
Mark