Red Retro Kitchen - Awwww

Isn't this just the cutest thing you ever saw?

If I still had a showroom, I'd buy it in a flash!
























I think I must be stuck somewhere in my early childhood because I never got to play with a kitchen like this...Now I play with my clients' kitchens!

This charmer can be obtained at Stacks and Stacks.

Make a little girl's dreams come true.

Peggy

Sooji(Semolina) Roti

I have never heard of this dish until I came across Cookspot's blog. I was wondering how Sooji(rava) will bind together without any flour. But to my surprise, they turned out soft and tasty. These are slightly thicker than regular rotis. If you are bored of Upma or dosas, try this recipe.

Ingredients:
Sooji(rava)-1 cup
Water-just enough to wet the sooji
Salt
Hing-a pinch
Ginger chopped-1/2 tsp
Green chilli chopped-1/4 tsp
Chilli powder-a pinch(optional)
Coriander leaves(Cilantro) chopped-1 tsp
Grated coconut-2 tbsp
Finely chopped onion-1/4 cup
Oil-2-3 tsp
Cumin seeds-1 tsp

Wet sooji with little water(1/4 cup approx) and let it stand for 10 minutes.
Add rest of the ingredients(except oil) and make a soft dough(without adding extra water). You should be able to roll into balls. If the mixture is very dry, add very little water.
Heat a pan, grease it with a drop of oil. Place a medium sized ball and pat it with your palm into thick roti. Drizzle oil along the edges of the roti. Cook on both sides till it turns soft(it cook fast, so keep an eye on it). Serve hot with chutney or sambar.

Note: They don't have to turn golden brown and crisp.

Georgia Gilmore & The Club from Nowhere

Rosa Parks & Martin Luther King

On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full. Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system and led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation.

Georgia Gilmore cooking

During the bus boycott that Rosa Parks triggered, a group of Montgomery, Ala., women baked and sold pies, cookies and cakes in beauty salons and on street corners to raise money to buy gas and station wagons to haul people to work The Club from Nowhere, as the group was known, was the brainchild of Georgia Gilmore, a cafeteria worker fired for her organizing efforts.

Georgia is one of the unsung heroes of the civil rights era.
Listen to our Hidden Kitchens radio story from 2005 - Georgia Gilmore & The Club from Nowhere.
For recipe and photos - visit the Hidden Kitchens web site. You can find Georgia Gilmore's recipes in our Hidden Kitchens Book.


Read an interview with Georgia from the Washington Film and Video Archive