I made a wonderful seafood soup awhile back and used this stuff in it. Dried shredded Kombu seaweed. I have plenty more on hand as I've been experimenting more with dried oriental foods since I find them to be inexpensive and storage space savers. ;-)
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Hate to admit I have never tried it. Have never even seen it close up. Mind you, it's not available in the usual local grocery stores here in Johannesburg, only in the more "specialty" type stores. It is probably much more common in the coastal towns, though. DH says he had it deep-fried at a restaurant once and it was good. I love seafood, though, and it sounds like it might be a good idea to get some seaweed to try out. I gather there are different types? "Scuse my ignorance... 🙂
Cathy
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>Other than soup? > >I made a wonderful seafood soup awhile back and used this stuff in it. >Dried shredded Kombu seaweed. I have plenty more on hand as I've been >experimenting more with dried oriental foods since I find them to be >inexpensive and storage space savers. ;-)
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Hate to admit I have never tried it. Have never even seen it close up. Mind you, it's not available in the usual local grocery stores here in Johannesburg, only in the more "specialty" type stores. It is probably much more common in the coastal towns, though. DH says he had it deep-fried at a restaurant once and it was good. I love seafood, though, and it sounds like it might be a good idea to get some seaweed to try out. I gather there are different types? "Scuse my ignorance... 🙂
Cathy
Oh TONS of different types of dried seaweed! :-) All with different applications. Nori is probably one of the more common ones as it's used for sushi wraps.
OK, I see I didn't need to re-mention that in my other reply after all, heheh...
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I have a local oriental market that is just out of this world and has hundreds of new foods I have yet to try. <G> I swear every time I go there I purchase something new to try.
It's a whole new world of flavor.... and most of it is freindly to low carbing.
I want to see if I can use some of the dried shrimp and stuff as it smells really nice, and should be cheaper. I'll probably do it in a soup first.
Look on line for some oriental food websites for seaweed. The stuff I am using is a shredded seaweed called Kombu. Looks like it's been cut with pinking shears. ;-)
I'm also always looking for alternative uses for some of this stuff. It does not have to be used to cook chinese or thai all the time!
Thanks. Will surely try it out. Sounds good. Cathy
Oh TONS of different types of dried seaweed! :-) All with different applications. Nori is probably one of the more common ones as it's used for sushi wraps.
Okeydokes. The good news: The DH came home from the oriental market with two types of dried seaweed The bad news: All the instructions on the packaging are in Chinese 🙂 so I still don't know what type of seaweed they are, or how long to cook them etc.
The shop assistant did say they were suitable for soup... The one type is black, and other is "greenish" - looks a bit like dried grass 🙂
Think I will have to scoot over to the MIL - she has studied some Chinese, and see if she can help me out 🙂
Cheers Cathy
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