Tummy Tuesday : Italian cooking at the Academy

Ok, so I’m doing the alphabet challenge and today is the letter I so I thought ice cream. Well, I’ve been good so I don’t have any nor any photos. So i thought I’d look through my cookbooks to see if I had any that began with I and found two: Italian Cooking at the Academy and Iron Chef the official book.
The Iron Chef is really a fan book translated from Japanese so it only has 10 recipes among a ton of lovely food photos and information about the various Iron Chefs and the battles. If you’re looking for a cookbook, this isn’t going to make you happy. If you’re a fan and want to read a bit about the various chefs and the battles in the original Iron Chef show in Japan, you’ll adore this hardback.
Italian Cooking at the Academy is one of a series put out by the California Culinary Academy in the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1980s, I bought my first one in their series brand new from an online bookstore when I was living in Japan. The recipes were easy to follow and for me some of them were quite unique. I remember a fruit salad with watermelon and cilantro among other ingredients. Took me awhile to figure out the Japanese word for cilantro but I did and served it to my Japanese friends. It was very unusual. They called it “fushigi” which means strange, novel, or unusual. They used to call me fushigi too so I never figured out if it was a good thing or a bad thing. Depends on if you like unusual or not. As they were my friends, I guess they did like the unusual, lol.
One of the things I liked about the series is that the instructions were fairly easy for me to follow. Reading through their espresso ice cream recipe, I realize that they didn’t use an ice cream maker. They just froze it in an ice cream freezer. I wonder if an ice cream freezer is colder than a regular freezer? Hmmm, this sounds like something I’d like to make. Not now. Maybe in 6 months. I need to lose a few more pounds. | Italian Cooking: At the Academy |
Roundup of last week’s Tummy Tuesday (4/2/19-4/8/19):
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11 Replies to “Tummy Tuesday : Italian cooking at the Academy”
Great post!
Ronel visiting from the A-Z Challenge with Music and Writing: Imagine
Thank you!
Cilantro is so good! I never thought about it on watermelon, but why not! 😉
It tastes really different. I love cilantro too. It’s one of my favorite toppers for soup.
I love the term fushigi!
me too actually. I like the sound of it too. thanks for reading and popping by
I am going to a book sale today, I will look for some.
I love books! What did you end up getting?
I like all things Italian and I’m very strange. I’d do well at your house.
Have a fabulous day. ♥
It’s fun tasting something new and trying out unexpected combinations, don’t you think? It’s really hard to go wrong with Italian though. I agree with you. I love Italian too.