Are snake gourds anything like silk squash (AKA luffa, whose tough mature specimens serve as defoliating sponges, but which have a pillowy delicacy when small and tender?) I’m presuming it’s a cucurbit, which makes the cucumber flavor unsurprising.
This was so much fun to watch, from beginning to end. The snake gourds are amazing, but dude has some magnificent tomatoes, too! I loved the moment when he thought of sticking the tube-sections of snake gourd into the rice mixture to fill them--his eureka expression was to die for. And I loved the stuffed tubes standing in the tomato-pepper-coconut milk sauce: they looked like some undersea life form.
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Date: 2025-02-13 01:03 am (UTC)Are snake gourds anything like silk squash (AKA luffa, whose tough mature specimens serve as defoliating sponges, but which have a pillowy delicacy when small and tender?) I’m presuming it’s a cucurbit, which makes the cucumber flavor unsurprising.
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Date: 2025-02-13 01:07 am (UTC)That looks delicious and also step-one chopping the gourd into sections makes way more sense than what I was picturing.
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Date: 2025-02-13 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-13 01:52 am (UTC)I did in fact imagine it as a sort of vegetal strudel, sliced after the fact. This version you could actually fit in a pan.
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Date: 2025-02-13 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-13 01:57 pm (UTC)And the finished dish looks DELICIOUS.
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Date: 2025-02-15 01:49 am (UTC)