Moon Stew: A Sun Ra Recipe + Playlist
In this week’s episode of Miss Nati’s Music Box we entered a new dimension. Our spacecraft drifting by the moons of Saturn, with the faint sounds of experimental jazz drifting through the portholes. Miss Nati is our fearless leader as we make strides into musical territories unheard of by our curious ears. But all good astronauts need a good meal right? Well, we’ve got you covered with this special recipe for Moon Stew and a playlist to listen to as you chop all these delicious ingredients.
“You can’t say, ‘One teaspoon of this, or one teaspoon of that.’ Like a musician, you improvise. It’s like being on a spirit plane; you put the proper things in without knowing why. It comes out wonderful when it’s done like that. If you plan it, it doesn’t work.” - SUN RA
As reported by the food blog A Slice of Earthly Delight, the unharmonized melody goes like this:
Sun Ra’s Moon Stew
Ingredients:
Green Peppers
Onions
Garlic
Okra
Tomatoes
Corn
Flour
Butter or Vegetable Oil
Broth (chicken or vegetable)
Salt and Pepper to taste
Sincerity
Love
1) Chop the vegetables.
2) Bring the broth to a simmer on the stove while making a rue. To make the rue, melt the butter or vegetable oil in a pan and add flour, stirring until it reaches the consistency of wet sand. Stir a little of the broth into the rue and then add the rue into the broth.
3) Add the vegetables, salt, pepper, sincerity, and love to the broth.
4) Cook for at least one hour and serve to family and friends!
Thunder Bread: A Bjork Recipe + Playlist
This week, we submerge ourselves in depths of moss green, cobalt blue and icy white. Emerging from this stark landscape come cooed melodies like lullabies, intermingled with polyphonic vocal layers, growls and glitches. With these layers of ambient sound and sweeping vocals like a thunderstorm, we arrive at this week's artist: the formidable BJORK. Dive into the world of this trailblazing creator with our very own Miss Nati and special guest and expert, the robot LP3000!
When Bjork’s not creating innovative, genre-bending music and narrating the tiny world inside her TV, we imagine she enjoys Icelandic comfort food in her home kitchen. When asked about her earliest memory, Bjork answered:
“Being driven to kindergarten by my grandfather. Helping the caretakers there hand out slices of rye bread, thinking I was one of them.”
To honor this week's artist and her affection for Iceland, below you will find a recipe for Icealandic Rye Bread from Recipe for Adventures. One of the most fascinating and unique things about this traditional bread is that it’s cooked underground in Iceland using geothermal energy, instead of in an oven. To emulate this process, the recipe requires a longer cooking time at a lower temperature. Give it a try!
Icelandic Rye Loaf a.k.a. “Thunder Bread”
An interpretation of the Icelandic rye bread that is baked in the ground by geothermal activity.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 5 hours
Total Time 5 hours 15 minutes
Servings 1 loaf
Ingredients
320 grams rye flour
85 grams all-purpose flour
200 grams sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
500 mL milk
Instructions
Mix together all dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Add milk. Mix together. Dough will be very wet.
Heavily butter a pot and pour dough inside.
Bake at 120 degrees Celsius with a lid on the pot for five and a half hours, or until bread is cooked in the middle.
There you have it~ Traditional Icelandic Rye Bread! So hit play on our special Bjork playlist we made just for you, twist your hair into some marvelous buns, and let’s get baking!