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Saveur apparently found a way to cover pot cooking and still look classy and gourmet and stuff. In issue number 139, "BBQ Nation," an article ascribes the recipe for marijuana chicken curry to the "Muduvans, a forest-dwelling people who rely on psychoactive flora for food, medicine, and enlightenment." After an Indian grandma delivers the recipe from Kerala via Skype, the author picks up the fresh leaves of “a mild, toasty sativa” at her local medical marijuana shop, and says that they “harmonized with the sautéed onions, garlic, ginger, curry leaves, and coconut” in the finished dish.
It always feels a little funny to talk about pot the same way you’d talk about, well, oregano, or any other herb or seasoning. After all, its main draw is its psychoactive effect. The Saveur article (which did not include a recipe) didn’t really own up to that fact. After eating the chicken, “mellow” tasters would only admit to feeling relaxed. When we covered San Francisco–based Cannabis Catering, a.k.a. “The French Laundry of the Weed World,” its chef didn't shy away from describing the effects of a Guinness-hash demiglace and a crème brûlée with lemon-and-pot-infused crème anglaise: “I want you to be knocked down, but I don't want you to not be able to talk or be hallucinating or in a coma with lipstick on your forehead because you can't find your face.”
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well as a cook and a baker, if you desire the herbal taste and flavor of said plant,without any effect, use the large leaves in the last 15 minutes of cooking to finish the dish, if you want the other effects you should use the flowers or the leaves closest to the flowers and simmer them pretty low in oil or butter, let it sit for a hour or so, and use the butter or oil as you would in any other...+READ
well as a cook and a baker, if you desire the herbal taste and flavor of said plant,without any effect, use the large leaves in the last 15 minutes of cooking to finish the dish, if you want the other effects you should use the flowers or the leaves closest to the flowers and simmer them pretty low in oil or butter, let it sit for a hour or so, and use the butter or oil as you would in any other recipie, eating raw flowers or leaves is not advisable and can cause digestive problems,if you do make butter use butter not margarine, the best therapeutic use imho is spritz cookies, the best tasting is king crab dipped in drawn plant butter, or use the butter to make a roux and use some more of it to make biscuits, they taste great but I would really be careful, when eaten this plants effects are much stronger than when smoked, and from experience, it lasts a lot longer than you want it to, and hallucinations are a possibility so be careful!-COLLAPSE
THC is fat and alcohol soluble. If you eat pot flowers and bread, you may not experience anything psychoactive. There's no way to pair the pot with certain ingredients to avoid a trip, though. Even if you feed someone cannabis hard tack, they might go home for a glass of wine and a slice of cheesecake.
And also, it seemed to last forever.
I can't help thinking of it as tasting a little like bong water, which is never the desired effect in a dish as far as I'm concerned.
And yes, the most wasted I ever got was from pot brownies back in the early 1970s.
Sylvette below is incorrect. Eating cannabis DOES produce a high. In fact eating cannabis is a bit on the tricky side. Unlike smoking it, if you eat too much you will feel miserably sick.
Had a friend who went to Jamaica, ate some magic pot brownie, and was sick, and incapacitated she was so high, for almost 12 hours. She vowed never to eat the stuff again.
Chefs need to realize a few things when working with cannabis in cooking. 1: Cannabis leaves are significantly lower in medicinal oils than the flowers are, which means that if you use leaves, the effect is more culinary than medicinal. If you want to get medicated, use the flowers. 2: Medicinal effects vary depending on whether one consumes a sativa (mental/spiritual, anti-depressive, can...+READ
Chefs need to realize a few things when working with cannabis in cooking. 1: Cannabis leaves are significantly lower in medicinal oils than the flowers are, which means that if you use leaves, the effect is more culinary than medicinal. If you want to get medicated, use the flowers. 2: Medicinal effects vary depending on whether one consumes a sativa (mental/spiritual, anti-depressive, can produce anxiety or panic attacks if overconsumed), an indica (body/physical, sedative/relaxant/anti-anxiety/insomnia treatment, appetite stimulant, anti-pain and anti-inflammatory), or a ruderalis blend (varies, partly depending on whether it's sativa- or indica-dominant). And 3: Eating cannabis, whether leaves or flowers, does not typically produce a high. In any case, cannabis is chock-full of anti-oxidants, and a growing number of people are preaching the virtues of even consuming it raw. Whether you're into new flavor exploration or researching new ways to support your health in an ever more toxic world, it's well worth looking into. Start with this newspaper article I came across several months back: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/31/AR2010053103231_3.html-COLLAPSE
A little dab'll do ya. THC clings to fat molecules. Thus, blending marijuana into high-fat foods, such as baked goods and sauces, create an ideal delivery system for the psycho-active ingredient in marijuana. It also produces a greater concentration of THC in the bloodstream over a longer period of time than smoking. Better limit yourself to one cookie, though, and clear your schedule of any...+READ
A little dab'll do ya. THC clings to fat molecules. Thus, blending marijuana into high-fat foods, such as baked goods and sauces, create an ideal delivery system for the psycho-active ingredient in marijuana. It also produces a greater concentration of THC in the bloodstream over a longer period of time than smoking. Better limit yourself to one cookie, though, and clear your schedule of any commitments.-COLLAPSE