The weather here isn’t bitterly cold this winter, a welcome reprieve from our sometimes intense Colorado weather, but we’re still eating soup pretty regularly, and harira is one of our favourites for its simplicity and the fact that it’s quick to prepare. Harira is a tomato-based Moroccan soup seasoned with a variety of different warming…
Applesauce has never been my favourite side dish or condiment, mostly because prior to making my own applesauce I’d always been accustomed to the sickly sweet and grainy light coloured stuff you find in the grocery store – in plastic containers with a metal pull-off lid. Applesauce had always been one note to me –…
Happy Hanukkah to those who are celebrating! I’ve been meaning to post more frequently, but the end of the fiscal year at work and the holidays snuck up on me, and here we are – three days into the holiday. I learned how to make latkes from my daughter’s great-grandmother Jane, because they were not…
Well, it’s been an interesting week here for the blog – after some mishap with AWS and server imaging and other technical concepts I previously was only somewhat aware of, the website is back up and now appears to be stable. Serious shout-out to the AWS employee in South Africa that spent hours working with…
A common refrain my husband hears from me, whatever the season and wherever in the world we are, is: ‘I need vegetables.’ Growing up, our table was never without at least one salad – and always multiple vegetable dishes. British and American cuisine share the same notion that a vegetable side dish is more of…
My favourite part of Thanksgiving is the sides; you can keep your turkey. For Thanksgiving our family usually roasts either a Quorn Turk’y (vegetarian), or a Field Roast en Croûte (vegan) to bring along with us. We find that even non-vegetarians like these options as well, and they’re great if you’re trying to reduce your…
Jeweled rice is a Middle Eastern rice recipe that often contains fresh herbs, nuts, and fruits and is made for special occasions (I usually make it during Rosh Hashanah), and this stuffing takes that concept and adapts it both for Thanksgiving and grains native to the Americas: wild rice, and quinoa. It is a healthy-ish,…
Thanksgiving is about the sides, right? While I fully believe in indulging from time to time, I also try to make sure that there’s healthier options on our Thanksgiving table, perhaps so I don’t feel so bad about getting seconds (or thirds?). I love cauliflower mashed ‘potatoes’, but then I love cauliflower in all its…
I’ve officially started our Thanksgiving preparations here, which seems really early – but we have three Thanksgiving meals to attend and so I’ve started getting things together that can be prepared far in advance. This cranberry sauce freezes really well, and since it makes a lot, I can freeze in individual freezer bags already portioned…
Cauliflower has replaced kale as the new ‘it’ vegetable, apparently. With the popularity of the keto diet this vegetable that was usually either steamed and unseasoned or covered in cheese sauce. My mother, on the other hand, has been roasting cauliflower since probably the 80s, and it has long been my favourite way to eat…
