I can’t believe it’s nearly the end of August. Summer is my favourite season, and I’m not sure I’m ready to see it go. I love Autumn, too – it’s beautiful, especially here in Colorado as the trees change colours, but then we’re on our way to winter, when I become like a pill bug,…
My daughter is vehemently anti-squash in any form. I’ve roasted it, fried it, stuffed it – and her response every time is still a resounding ‘nope’. She’ll delicately scoop out the innards of kousa mahshi (stuffed courgette) leaving the sad, hollowed out shell behind. I’m not exactly pro hiding vegetables in food, but I also…
After spending a few days in Marrakech last year, I became infatuated with the flavour of preserved lemon. Typically added to a tagine (Moroccan stew) of chicken and olives, these lemons were unlike anything I’d ever tasted before. They take on the flavour of the spices they age in – with the bay leaves, cinnamon,…
I know, I know. I just posted a cabbage salad recipe. But it’s been in the high 90s (high 30s for my Celsius friends) here and I can’t stomach turning on my oven yet. Plus cabbage has been on sale, and I’m trying to keep our food budget thrifty in anticipation of a two-week jaunt…
Baharat (بَهَارَات) literally meaning ‘spices’ in Arabic, is a common ingredient in many Lebanese and Levantine dishes. Like most Middle Eastern spice blends, every region or family has their preference as to what they like to add; baharat can sometimes contain nutmeg in place of allspice, or even the addition of paprika. Feel free to…
My husband does not cook. I am actually unsure of how he managed to survive for so many years on boxed macaroni and cheese and frozen pizza, but somehow he did. And believe it or not, some days I don’t want to cook (but I don’t want to eat pizza or macaroni and cheese, either),…
While cabbage is technically a cool season vegetable, I always seem to crave cabbage salads in the heat of summer. Coleslaw is an American summer tradition but I have always found most coleslaw perhaps a little too sweet, and too mayonnaise heavy. In summer I crave refreshing salads, and this one probably ends up on…
Summer is in full swing, and the last thing I want to do is heat up my kitchen, so we’ve been firing up the Instant Pot most evenings and eating a lot of salads. Our family is also trying to eat fewer meat meals, for health, budget, and environmental reasons – and so this vegan…
Kamounet is one of those seasonings that every family has a different recipe for – some include cloves, some eschew them for allspice, it just depends on your tastes (or maybe what you have in the cupboard at the time). The only must in kamounet is why it’s called kamounet in the first place: kamoun…
Sugary iced drinks and pine nuts are two of my daughter’s favourite things in this world and jallab, a fruity punch made with syrups and water over ice and topped with pine nuts is as perfect a summer beverage as she could wish for. While commercial jallab syrups are available they’re not easily found in…
