Art loves mom's nishime. Nishime is a Japanese stew made with vegetables, seaweed, dasheen, chicken or pork.
There's a lot of names for dasheen. Mom calls it araimo, but it's also called satoimo or taro root. Mom says it MUST be included in the nishime. Unfortunately, it has a slimy liquid when it's raw. It gets on your hands when you're peeling it and leaves your fingers itchy and irritated for quite a while. For that reason, mom used to buy it frozen even though she doesn't like to buy food packaged in China.
This summer, Tiffany brought these vinyl gloves for us that we could use for food preparation or whatever. I haven't used them until I had to peel some dasheen for mom. I wondered if it would be too slippery, but no... they worked perfectly!
The best part: no itchy hands. Yay!
There's a lot of names for dasheen. Mom calls it araimo, but it's also called satoimo or taro root. Mom says it MUST be included in the nishime. Unfortunately, it has a slimy liquid when it's raw. It gets on your hands when you're peeling it and leaves your fingers itchy and irritated for quite a while. For that reason, mom used to buy it frozen even though she doesn't like to buy food packaged in China.
This summer, Tiffany brought these vinyl gloves for us that we could use for food preparation or whatever. I haven't used them until I had to peel some dasheen for mom. I wondered if it would be too slippery, but no... they worked perfectly!
The best part: no itchy hands. Yay!
Does cooked Taro cause the same allergic reaction? You are a wonderful daughter.
ReplyDeleteNo, once the taro is cooked it's absolutely fine.
DeleteDon't know if I could eat something that makes my hands itchy...
ReplyDeletewow, if the food does that to your hands, wonder what it does inside? lol....
ReplyDeleteI have never seen it inteesting
ReplyDeleteI don't believe I have ever had dasheen. I have heard of people having adverse reaction to handling different foods though. I have a friend whose hands swell and itch if she touches seafood. She learned this while cleaning shrimp at a restaurant job and took it as a sign to never eat seafood under any circumstance.
ReplyDeleteYikes! Sounds like my daughter and watermelon.
DeleteTaro root is a "superfood"--well worth the effort!
ReplyDeleteDasheen is new to me but if I ever come across it, I will use my gloves. I use mine when ever handling garlic.
ReplyDeleteThe only ingredient I dislike in nishime which I love. Always give it to the dogs to eat. When I make it (the lazy way), I dump them out and they comprise a large portion of the bag. Otherwise I simply love all Japanese root vegetables, so healthy and so delish, like gobo. I'm nuts about gobo. BB
ReplyDeleteKinpira gobo is definitely one of our favorites too. I'm not a big araimo fan, but mom and Art love it. I'll bet it's healthy for the dogs too.
Deletegreat idea!
ReplyDeleteI saw a lady spray paint her hands silver before. Like she was turning into the tin man. I wanted to ask her if she knew what gloves were and better aim
ReplyDeleteI heard of Taro root but not by the other names. Now I know. Thank you for sharing the gloves. I have been looking for some I can use with food.
ReplyDeleteI have heard of poi made from taro. How is this different?
ReplyDeleteTaro is called kalo in Hawaii. I looked up taro on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro and saw that it really is eaten all around the world in different forms. The Japanese variety is just a bit different from the Hawaiian kalo. For one thing, I believe it's much smaller.
DeleteI like gobo too! My mom likes the satoimo in cooking as well. Do you think that these small ones can be used to make those popular taro chips (like in Jalna's blog) ?
ReplyDeleteGosh.... I have no idea. There are so many different varieties of taro. I had no idea how many until I was watching Ed Kenney on PBS. He has a six part series called Family Ingredients. Ed Kenney owns four restaurants in Hawaii. It's on Wednesday nights. Our friend, Dave recommended the program to us and this past Wednesday was miso soup. The one before was Taro.
DeleteI always wear gloves when peeling any vegetable.
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