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Rokni Haerizadeh.  Chiniye Gole Sorkhi, 2009. Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm.

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Sweet Potato Cakes with Sauteed Kale, Mushrooms and Lentils, and Mint Yogurt Sauce

Anyone whose even remotely looked at the recipes on this blog has probably noticed I make a lot of meat.  Like, a lot.  But I’ve been getting inspired to do some vegetarian cooking by Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty,  there are some beautiful recipes in that book that I’m planning on playing around with.  The below is inspired by the book.

Ingredients (sweet potato cakes):

• 1 cup mashed sweet potato
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• Butter

Mix everything but the butter (batter should dry enough to handle), and get the butter warm in a pan.  Divide into 4 balls, flatten and fry for 3-4 minutes on each side.

Ingredients (yogurt sauce):

• 3/4 cup greek yogurt
• Juice of half a lemon
• 1/4 bunch of fresh mint leaves
• Salt and pepper to taste

Puree.

Ingredients (lentils):

• 1 can of lentils, drained
• 3 cups of roughly chopped kale
• 1 portabello mushroom, roughly sliced
• 1 cup white wine
• 4 garlic cloves
• 1 chili
• 1 orange, in slices
• Salt and olive oil

Mash garlic, chili and salt in a mortar and pestle.  Saute in a bit of olive oil with the mushrooms.  Add the kale and cook for 3-4 minutes before adding the wine and lentils.  Season with salt to taste and cook until the wine is reduced, about 10 minutes.  Serve on the sweet potato cakes and top with orange slices and mint yogurt.

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Alfons Mucha, Study of Drapery, 1900

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The Swedish Golliwog Cake

It is a disturbing, disrespectful and dehumanizing staging of structural racism and post-colonial existence. Of how a woman’s brutal physical and mental suffering is rendered into a cheap, humiliating occasion of ‘satire’ and ‘provocative’ art in the form a cake. For someone who is a Cultural Minister, Lena Adelsohn-Liljeroth needs to reevaluate her sense of ethics and respect for the sentiment of victims from another culture. Makode Linde owes an apology to every single African woman who has been insulted and hurt by this disgraceful act called “art”.

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Khader Adnan, Palestinian prisoner who went on a 66-day hunger strike, united with his children.

Beautiful. Here’s a photo of Palestinian women celebrating Khader Adnan’s return. More power to this amazing man.

Clearly the manufacture of consent by a ‘specialized class’ that can override the short-sighted perspectives of the masses must entail media control by that class. Political scientist Thomas Ferguson contends that the major media, ‘controlled by large profit-maximizing investors do not…

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owlwise12 / Tim Lukeman. Possession.

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