Dried Quotes

“Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them”
― Munia Khan

“I need to hold on to the faded love ‘cause I love to secure the stems of dying flowers”
― Munia Khan

“Relations are like leaves in a plant. Some green, some dried. Just shook yourself, and all the dried ones will fall.”
― Alok Jagawat

“While I'm waiting, I reach into the cupboard for dried pineapple. I added them to the grocery order because I find them reassuring, but they have to be the right kind. Ma started buying the fancy natural low-sulfur version from Trader Joe's in the past few years. Those are fibrous and taste good for you. These are the ones from my childhood, which just taste good. They are as yellow as lemons, crusted all around with sugar. The inside is as thick and wet as a gumdrop.”
― Jael McHenry, The Kitchen Daughter

“Mmm! It's so hot and juicy! It looks like he marinated the eel in some red wine and cinnamon to underscore its flavor with a touch of freshness before he cooked it."
"I stuck some gunpowder in that eel, y'know. Some very special gunpowder...
to blow your dish out of the water!"
"Mmm! What?!"
Where did this sharp, vivid taste come from?!
The eel.
Kurokiba must have secreted something inside of it...
He got us.
It's dried plums!"
Dried plums? You mean prunes?!"
"Eel and prunes?!"
Aha.
He rehydrated some dried plums and then used the crépine to keep them wrapped inside of the eel.
"Mmm! The fruity tang of the plums is mixing together with the rich, heavy juices from the eel...”
― Yuto Tsukuda, 食戟のソーマ 11 [Shokugeki no Souma 11]

“Karasumi is salt-cured, sun-dried mullet roe. A specialty of Nagasaki, it is similar to the Italian bottarga, Greek avgotaraho or Turkish tarama.

Kuchiko is pressed sea cucumber ovaries and comes in small, triangular sheets that can be eaten either raw or grilled. It's called kuchiko when raw and konoko when dried.”
― Tetsu Kariya, Sake