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Inky black sesame ice cream: delicately nutty with a hint of flowery vanilla. Also a great Halloween pudding with a little blood (raspberry sauce) and severed fingers (coming soon) in case you are of the Halloween-celebrating tribe.
Inky black sesame ice cream: delicately nutty with a hint of flowery vanilla. Also a great Halloween pudding with a little blood (raspberry sauce) and severed fingers (coming soon) in case you are of the Halloween-celebrating tribe.
Black Sesame & Matcha Brioche | These lovely brioche buns are swirled with matcha inside and then sprinkled with a generous amount of black sesame seeds.
At Sushi Express, Sheffield. This ice cream was amazing - Dan had wasabi flavour, but I didn't get a picture. Oh well.
Dan, Catherine and I went for lunch there yesterday after getting our hair done at the wonderful Hair By Christmas. The food was absolutely wonderful.
Cakes @ "Nesuto".
"{Light, Nutty, Roasted}(Japanese Black Sesame)"
"The specialty only on weekends", the shop attendant advised and so I decided to try the weekend special.
For a black sesame cake, I was quite surprised how NOT sesame this cake was.
The black sesame profile was shy - it hinted and refused to shout.
I did enjoy the light texture of the cake though!
Bukit Tagar, Selangor, Malaysia.
Sesamum radiatum Schumach. & Thonn. Pedaliaceae. CN: Benniseed, Wild beniseed, Black benniseed, Black sesame, Vegetable sesame, Ewe atura. Naturalized from Africa; in Malesia, reported from Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo (Sabah & Sarawak). Naturalized, throughout Peninsular Malaysia. Habitat - In Peninsular Malaysia, roadsides and abandoned tin mining areas. Plants are overrun by ants, probably attracted by the extra-floral nectaries. Robust herbs, 0.9–1.2 m tall, hairy, leaves with a strong foetid smell when crushed. It is used in Africa as a leafy vegetable. In folk medicine as a laxative, an antidote to scorpion venom, and to treat sprains and ease childbirth.
Synonym(s):
Sesamopteris radiata DC. ex Meisn.
Sesamum occidentale Regel & Heer
Ref. and suggested reading:
FRIM Flora Database
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2587572
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33753
Vegetables, by Gerardus J. H. Grubben, pp. 465