As promised, here is the salad recipe from the previously mentioned small dinner party. This is a lovely salad where the whole is quite a lot more than the sum of it’s parts. It brings together the fresh crunchy lettuce, onions, and cucumbers, the warm fried eggplant and potatoes, the crispy bread, and the nutty chickpeas. It is very … [Read more…]
Archives for December 2013
Black Bean Soup
This is a simple black bean soup that we had for lunch, perfect for a cold, end-of-December day. It gets some color from the addition of potatoes, butternut squash, and carrots to the black beans. We served it with some cooked rice on top. Colorful Black Bean Soup 1 onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, chopped 2 bay leaves 1 tablespoon … [Read more…]
Salmon with Lemony Parsley Butter sauce
This is a follow up to the previous dinner party post, where I posted the recipe for Salmon with Soy Maple Sauce. This salmon filet was baked and topped with a lemon parsley butter sauce, as shown below. It is super easy, quick, and very tasty. We served this with Quinoa Mujadara, turmeric rice, and layered pita salad (salad recipe to be posted … [Read more…]
Salmon with Soy Maple Sauce
We had a dinner party, making two different salmon filets, one salmon filet had a lemon parsley butter sauce, and one had a soy maple sauce. I will blog the lemon parsley butter salmon shortly, but the soy maple salmon recipe is below: Soy Maple Salmon 1.5 – 2 lb salmon filet 1 tablespoon canola oil 1/4 onion, sliced 1/2 cup … [Read more…]
Quinoajadara – Quinoa Mujadara (Lentils and Quinoa with Caramelized Onions and Sumac)
Mujadara is a very popular Levantine dish. It is a very hearty vegetarian dish, and very healthy too. It is great hot or at room temperature, making mujadara leftovers a good work lunch option. My husband and kids all love mujadara, so we have it often, and change it up sometimes. This recipe is a marriage of mujadara and quinoa. The onions, … [Read more…]
Musakhan – Chicken with lemon, onions, olive oil, and sumac, over pita or flatbread
My sister is here visiting and requested that I make Musakhan. My brother frequently asks me to make it as well. In fact, if he is here, I don’t bother asking him what he would like me to make, since the answer is invariably Musakhan. It is a favorite of friends and family, for sure. Musakhan, literally meaning “heated”, is a traditional … [Read more…]
Curried Ground Beef with Peas and Potatoes
Peas and Potatoes (Basella wa Batata) is a commonly made dish in the Levant area. Some people make this as a tomato based stew, and some as a sort of a curry stew. My family typically made it as a curry, but I love it both ways. Tonight, however, I made it close to how I always had it growing up, as a curried stew served with yogurt and … [Read more…]
Tray Baked Herb Chicken and Potatoes
This is a very easy weeknight dish, though we happened to have it on the weekend this time 🙂 . You place all your desired ingredients in a baking tray, and let it do it’s thing on it’s own while you do everything else you have to do. There are many variations on tray bakes, but they are a staple of any working parent’s repertoire. This was … [Read more…]
Cruzan Potato Stuffing
So, Thanksgiving has come and gone. I didn’t hurry to post my T-giving posts, since it is already over anyway. However, as Christmas is on the horizon, this will be fitting for then. One of the must-haves in my family’s Thanksgiving dinner menu (or any time we make turkey, which is several times a year – we LOVE it and look for any occasion to … [Read more…]
Roasted Sweet and White Potatoes with Lemon and Cilantro
This is a roasted medley of sweet and white potatoes that we had with turkey leftovers. (Thanksgiving turkey and side dish recipes will follow shortly). I realized that we went through the sides much faster than the turkey, so I had to come up with something that did not require me to leave the house for groceries, and was a fix-it-and-forget-it … [Read more…]