ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 2, 2009 Report Share Posted April 2, 2009 Swiss Spaghetti Harvest 1957 :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 2, 2009 Report Share Posted April 2, 2009 I watched the original showing of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 2, 2009 Report Share Posted April 2, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuces wild Posted April 2, 2009 Report Share Posted April 2, 2009 Swiss Spaghetti Harvest 1957 :lol:The linguine grown in 1961 was much better. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted April 2, 2009 Report Share Posted April 2, 2009 My Father tried to grow his in the greenhouse but could never perfect the crop. It always grew in pairs and he wasn't able to get it to grow in three's as he would have liked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuces wild Posted April 3, 2009 Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 My Father tried to grow his in the greenhouse but could never perfect the crop. It always grew in pairs and he wasn't able to get it to grow in three's as he would have liked. On a real note...........I remember the smell and aroma of my grandmother making noodles in her kitchen.........maybe it was the noodles.......maybe it was her kitchen.Some smells and events in life never fade.....like the smell of the fabric interior of my family's 1948 Ford, as late as when I was a 12 year old in 1963.On another note.........we often go to a market downtown to purchase hand made pasta. Brings back nice memories. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 Ah yes - handmade pasta! Especially made by gandmothers! The best we can do today is pasta machines...Not in Japan, however; most soba shops still make their noodles by hand, often in plain view of the customers. Soba are buckwheat noodles - very popular in Japan - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 3, 2009 Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 I like soba very much - despite its strange purple colour which seems to put a lot of British people off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 I have never seen purple color soba - what is it made of...?The buckwheat noodles I know as soba comes in various shades of brown; dark brown for noodles with 100% buckwheat, lighter with the degree of wheat added. (The colors in this photo are really a bit off.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 3, 2009 Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 The stuff I mean is Japanese buckwheat soba which has a purplish colour. Not a deep colour more of a tint in the brown.I have noticed the same colour in other buckwheat products such as blini also in the buckwheat pancakes I make myself.Nevertheless, buckwheat is VERY health giving being stuffed with rutin which is good for all sorts of things, especially blood vessels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted April 3, 2009 Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 The stuff I mean is Japanese buckwheat soba which has a purplish colour. Not a deep colour more of a tint in the brown.I have noticed the same colour in other buckwheat products such as blini also in the buckwheat pancakes I make myself.Nevertheless, buckwheat is VERY health giving being stuffed with rutin which is good for all sorts of things, especially blood vessels.-pops-, have you ever made bread with buckwheat flour? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted April 3, 2009 Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 Can't say I've ever tasted it - certainly none in Sainsbury's - I would have seen it as we have stirfry with noodles at least once a week.Probably nearer London or somewhere......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 3, 2009 Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 Irene: yes, I have. It's very nice but, it must be made in the same way as rye bread - that is mixed with white wheat flour unless, of course, you like it a solid lump as in pumpernickel. It's a strange colour - it has that purply tint.Artist: soba noodles are in my local Tesco but not Sainsbury's. I get mine from the Japanese grocers in Brighton. You could try a health food shop.Buckwheat flour is in Tesco under the Dove's Farm brand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 Probably nearer London or somewhere.........http://www.soba.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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