last night i had a minor revelation
of sorts
after going to the exhibition of a friend and her fellow students
at the queensland college of art
project gallery
and taking in not only the prints
and dips and olives
but additionally
a numer of glasses - well, plastic 'glasses' - of
vino rosso
but nor atichokes, but i digress ......
well we came home via the illustrious, the ubiquitous
king ahiram middle eastern take-away
on vulture street, west end
[this is the ned ...]
i purchased a cheese & spinach pie, a cheese puff, a kinda lamby sausage roll thing
and 4 dolmades (the last four on the palte)
i.e. stuffed vine leaves
most of these were consumed on the way home,
as was most of a can of lemon squash stuff
by my son,
just after we arrived home
i bit off half of the last of the culinary booty
the last dolmade[s]
(is dolmades plural?)
as i stared at the leaf-enwrapped rice of the reamining half domade
i realised
the curious parallel, the similarities,
between dolmades
and nori rolls
!
THEY BOTH involvE , incorporate
rice, often with some vegetable contents,
wrapped in green
salty/briny
foliage
...
consider the overlap there
for a moment ...
each consumed, and perhaps originating?
at opposite ends of the asian continent
.
of course domades are rarely eaten with wasabe
to the best of my knowledge
well, why not give that a try?

where am i going with this?
well
suffice to say
the vino
did the job
i'd say
~