A current favorite at many prisons is "food loaf," an indistinguishable dish, sometimes served as punishment, made from carrots, potatoes, garbanzo beans, cabbage and oatmeal.
Not that she is claiming they could be called healthy (although she does helpfully point out that gajar ka halwa – made from carrots – might count as one of your five a day), but it is possible to tame the sugar and fat.
Other menu highlights include a chicken liver mousse served with caviar, quince paste, brioche and compressed green apple with calvados gel, a baby beet salad with dehydrated horseradish, smokey almond puree and citrus and a wood-fired octopus with sweet potato, piquiollo pepper and a mojo verde made from carrot-top greens. .
Despite the Kaibiles appalling human rights record, the document shows that the visitors "had a very good lunch with most of the instructors... barbecue chicken, beef, corn tortillas, bread, soup made from carrots and pumpkin, cheese chips, watermelon, pepsi-cola in cans and beers".
That gorgeously golden soup he makes from carrots, chickpeas and butternut squash is an example of a vegetable soup that is neither brown nor boring.
The stuffed-egg luncheon was included, and so was a stew of beans and tomatoes, a dish of fried liver in gravy brightened only by a slice of onion, and a carrot "relish" made from raw carrots and a bit of diluted vinegar.
The dish was arranged in the shape of a peacock, the bird carved from daikon and its comb made from a carrot.
A vegetable bisque made from turnips, carrots and sweet potatoes also gave evidence of a sweet tooth in the kitchen.
The rabbit would be served not with Brussels sprouts but with spring peas, pea shoots, and a bright-orange vinaigrette made from baby carrots.
Sandwiches — on freshly baked rolls or bread, of course — are also available ($3 to $6.25), in addition to soups made from scratch, like carrot ginger bisque, lentil and black bean with ham ($2 to $4.75).
When you think slaw, you might think cabbage, or maybe you've even gone so far as to try slaws made from broccoli or carrots.
