primitives discuss puls gladiatorum

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115722786

Oh my.

One's always awestruck, at the immense variety of things the primitives light campfires about.

DetlefK (979 posts)   Sat Mar 2, 2013, 08:08 AM

puls gladiatorum

The gladiators in ancient Rome ate this or a variant of this every day.

And now they are dead.

I found the original ancient recipe in a vegan blog and added for this post the quantities I found out.
 
"puls gladiatorum"
(for 1 serving as a main dish or 2 servings as a side-dish)

- some olive-oil
- half an onion
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 pinch of mediterranean spices (thyme, rosemary... whatever)
- 50g small, dried beans
- 50g whole grains (wheat, barley, millet...)
- 250-300ml of water (less, if you use canned beans)
- salt/soy-sauce/fish-sauce

If you use dry beans, put them in water and let them suck on it over night. Discard the water before cooking, as it contains chemicals that will make you fart.
 
1. Chop the onion into rather large pieces and the garlic really fine. Carefully fry them, including the dry spices (except salt!), in not too hot oil until the garlic almost turns brown.
 
2a. If you use dry beans, add them into the pot, together with the water. Bring to boil. The beans need a head-start of about 15 minutes. After that time, add the grains. Boil for approx. 20-30 more minutes until the beans are soft. Beans and grains should suck up the whole water, making the dish thick. Beware: Towards the end, it's prone to sticking at the bottom of the pot.

2b. If you use canned beans, add the grains first, together with the water. Bring to boil. After about 15 minutes, add the beans.
 
3. Season. It will need salt, but it also tastes good with soy-sauce. The original recipe is seasoned with roman fish-sauce.
 
Although it's a vegan main-dish, it goes excellent with fried sausage, pig and chicken.

You could also add an egg by cracking it into the pot and letting it simmer for 5 minutes in the vapor of the dish.

formercia (17,843 posts)      Sat Mar 2, 2013, 08:34 AM

1. Garum

http://www.grouprecipes.com/112785/authentic-roman-garum-fish-sauce.html

Recipe for authentic Roman Fish Sauce.

You can find the equivalent in any Oriental Food Store; Nuk Mam in Vietnamese.

Good stuff.

^^^the formica primitive who some years ago alleged that the elder George Bush, when vice-president, tried to have him liquidated down in central America.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I've never tasted nuoc mam and never intend to.  Just knowing what it is puts me off.

[JohnnyReb]

I've never tasted nuoc mam and never intend to.  Just knowing what it is puts me off.

When Obama and Bill Ayers have finally damn near starved me to death.....maybe I'll try the slop.

[FlippyDoo]

DetlefK (979 posts)   Sat Mar 2, 2013, 08:08 AM

puls gladiatorum

The gladiators in ancient Rome ate this or a variant of this every day.

And now they are dead.

They ate it and they died?

You're just saying that in the hopes that we'll all get together and buy you some puls gladiatorum ain't you?

Too bad for you we know that it wasn't the puls gladiatorum that killed them. It was probably some assault sword or something that just jumped out of it's scabbard and went crazy thinking it was a gun that killed them.

How many more gladiators must die before we realize that we must ban assault swords that think they are guns?

[BattleHymn]

Ok I'm confused.  Is the vegan blog trying to pass this off as a vegan dish?

I wouldn't exactly call garum a vegan friendly sauce.  I have been in around a batch in production, though, and it is what I imagine many primitives smell like. 

[Bad Dog]

I've never tasted nuoc mam and never intend to.  Just knowing what it is puts me off.

It's not bad once you get past the smell.

[Dori]

I never knew that bean soup had such a fancy name, and I didn't know that beans could suck either.   I learned something from a DUmmie today. 

[thundley4]

It's not bad once you get past the smell.

Said no one ever about a DUmmie female.   

[JakeStyle]

I've never tasted nuoc mam and never intend to.  Just knowing what it is puts me off.

The shellbacks used to douse the pollywogs with that stuff, it smelled so nasty.