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I'm quite pleased with this little video I made whilst bored at the market. It seemed appropriate that the Twin Peaks soundtrack kept shuffling into play. This was one of those days when it is pointless to avoid the inevitable thorough soaking headed ones way from either packing up and/or getting home. In my case on this day, it was both.
Here is a fifteen second video of my first attempt at making spelt spaghetti. Check out my spelt pasta blog post for the spelt pasta recipe.
Handmade spelt spaghetti with tomato and bacon sauce
The spaghetti was the inspiration for the above print painting that I made.
Pasta sauce ingredients
Spelt Spaghetti
Tomato sauce with bacon
Ingredients
450g tin of tomatoes or homemade pomodoro
150g bacon or pancetta
1 red pepper
1 shallot or 1/2 an onion chopped finely
2 garlic cloves sliced thinly
1 medium chilli chopped finely
2 Tbsp coconut or olive oil
2 Tbsp Six-pepper T'chup
salt and pepper and parmesan to taste
*For this recipe I used handmade spelt spaghetti using the recipe as linked above and using my Imperia pasta maker's spaghetti section. The section needed to be cleaned between each passing of the pasta sheets as little bits were getting stuck in the grooves which turn the sheets into spaghetti which was making the spaghetti sort of twisted and broken. I cooked my spaghetti for about 7 minutes which was much longer than the 4 minutes that I needed with my spelt fettucine that I made. I think this was due to me having left the fettucine to dry out longer than I had with the spaghetti.
The resulting recipe was hearty but not overly heavy, this is probably down to the spelt flour. With each bite I was able to taste the ingredients of the pasta and the flavours of the sauce. I find I'm eating less pasta now that I'm hand making it but the levels of flavour make it much more of an enjoyable pleasure. Next up will be lasagna but for now the recipe for the spelt spaghetti and tomato sauce with bacon and red peppers.
Instructions
Here are some more patterns that I have created from polymer clay slices of canes that I have created over the past fifteen years, some are even earlier. I am having so much fun with these patterns and I almost forgot how much I love creating them as well as finding them in nature, life and within myself. This year I will be releasing some of my favourite patterns in series of prints, paintings and more.
yinka 2
jade squiggle
grey storm
blue brains
original trade
blue spot red atomic
I was trying to capture a bit of grinding action while making some Smy Chutney apple and pepper chutney at my cousins house for an upcoming tutorial. Here's a minute-long sneak peak featuring her stunning antique mortar and pestle. I love the differing depths of imprints left from thousands of times when the pestle has met its mortar. I am quite happy with my own mortar and pestle which is not an antique but solid, sturdy and large enough to hold rather a lot of herbs, spices and more and keep them in place as I pummel them to pieces. I am so used to the rhythm of grinding pink peppercorns in my own m & p that when using my cousin's I felt as if it was gently laughing at me for trying to rely on brute strength rather than the finesse needed when using hers. It has a basin worn smooth through use and I found I needed to alter my technique to get them to break apart. The pink peppercorns were a perfect contrast to the creamy mortar and their intense aroma would form the basis of a fantastic perfume.
I also love imagining who has used these tools and for what purposes, what is its history, what time is its place? That last phrase is a slight amendment to the phrase that one of my historic preservation professors, W Brown Morton III, used to ask us when studying old buildings, sites and items, "What time is this place?" It has stuck with me and while the people below aren't using the same exact type of mortar and pestle as my cousin's the images capture the differing uses from inside to outside, for food, science, art and more.
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Joseph Janney Steinmetz - photographer
Untitled (man with large mortar and pestle), c. 1940
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Woman p
ounding rice using a wooden pounding tool and a hollowed out log
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British East Florida plantation.
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Old woman with pestle and mortar
Caravaggio
1571 -1610
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Italian apothecary. 18th-century
National Historic Museum of the Medical Arts, Rome, Italy.
I am really pleased and proud to present...Presenting Smy Chutney, a short film made by Emma Crouch who is a London based photographer, film maker and project manager, a huge Smy Chutney supporter and also a dear friend. You can see more of Emma's work at her website -
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, exhibited at the
and for sale at the
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A few months ago, Emma and I met at
on Hanbury Street for a bit of lunch and a bit of a chat about an idea she'd had about working together. Emma and I had worked together in the past and I knew her work ethic, attention to detail and resulting work to be outstanding. I also knew that we would have a lot of fun working together and jumped at the chance to do so. This was a photo we took at our first meeting at Poppies, we look quite serious, perhaps we were really hungry or perhaps all the other photos we took were a little bit silly.
I am so pleased with the results and cannot praise or thank Emma enough. She has delivered a video that has met, and far exceeded, my expectations from our first meeting.
and remember...
it's not your chutney...
it's Smy Chutney.
