In adherence to kosher dietary law, dairy recipes will contain no meat.
Date syrup, sometimes called date honey, date molasses, rub, or silan, is one of my favourite things. It’s the ‘jelly’ to the peanut butter and jelly of the Middle East (date syrup and tahini on bread is magical). It has a rich sweetness and depth of flavour that corn syrup doesn’t – and its flavour…
Hawaij is a Yemenite spice mix, which comes in both a savoury version and a ‘sweet’ one, used in Arabic style coffee. It contains ginger, cardamom, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, and clove. This warming spice blend is perfect not just in coffee, but in lots of American autumn favourites, like pumpkin bread, or in this case,…
We arrived home from nearly two weeks in Japan (cut a little short, due to typhoon Hagibis) to Colorado’s typically temperamental weather – a bright summery day turned into a snowstorm. Snow is soup weather, and while my typical go-to is a bowl of shorbat adas (lentil soup), my daughter had suddenly become enamoured of…
We use a lot of tahini / tahina in our house – so much in fact that I actually purchase it in bulk. Day to day it’s used in mostly savoury applications – hummus, on top of toast with za’atar, or drizzled over roasted aubergine. It’s also perfect in many desserts. After a business trip…
While I don’t consider myself the type of person who has an ‘addictive personality’, coffee is definitely one of my weaknesses. I’ll drink coffee in virtually any form – from strong espresso to watery diner coffee, but the thick, cardamom-fragranced Arabic coffee is probably my favourite. I am not, however, a big chocolate person –…
Fatteh, meaning ‘crumbs’ in Arabic – is a bread salad. Most people are familiar with fattoush, which is ubiquitous in most Middle Eastern restaurants; fewer people are familiar with fatteh – which is more of a home dish, an end of the week meal to use up any leftover bits and pieces and stale bread….
With the heat this summer I’ve been hesitant to turn on my oven for any reason at all, and so we’ve been eating a lot of salads recently (you might have noticed), hummus, mutabbal, and so on. I grew up near the sea, though – and despite living an eighteen (yes, eighteen, I know –…
Having not grown up in America, I never developed a taste for sweet pumpkin desserts that become ubiquitous around Autumn here. I love savoury pumpkin dishes, but I still haven’t developed a taste for pumpkin sweets. My daughter, on the other hand, has been born and raised here and is a huge fan of all…
With C at Grandma’s house for the last weekend before school started, my husband and I took a quick trip up into the mountains together. On our way up I spotted a fruit stand and I immediately took note for our journey back. There is nothing I love more than a local roadside produce stand,…
Peach season is upon us, and I could not be happier about this. Peaches are one of my favourite fruits, and I only tend to buy them in season – otherwise I am always disappointed by the flavour. Because I went overboard on my peach purchases recently, I was thinking of creative ways to use…
