This soup is a bit lighter than the usual broccoli cheese soup. It is a forgiving recipe, in that you can use all broccoli, all cauliflower, or any combination of the two. You can use thawed frozen veggies instead of steaming raw ones. I like to add a summer squash (or zucchini) at the beginning with the onions, to add some more veggie nutrition – … [Read more…]
Layali Lubnan – Cold Semolina Pudding topped with Cream, Nuts, & Syrup
This is Layali Lubnan, which translates to Nights of Lebanon. It is a delicious pudding of sorts, made with semolina and milk, but allowed to thicken to a slice-able consistency. The traditional flavoring is mastic (mistka – gum arabic), but I looked high and low in my kitchen and my little jar of mastic seems to have run away. I really wanted … [Read more…]
Meatless Monday – Colcannon
What is there to say about this recipe? Butter = good. Potatoes = good. Cabbage = good. Put it all together in whipped form = excellent. Next time, I think I’d add carrots or parsnips, and maybe kale as well. Meatless Monday – Colcannon 5 red-skinned potatoes, scrubbed clean (about a pound) ½ small cabbage 1 cup whole milk 1 … [Read more…]
Matcha Green Tea Sahlab (Drinkable Green Tea Pudding)
Sahlab (salep) is a wonderful drink when it is bitterly cold outside. It is warming and thick and comforting. It has a consistency of a thin pudding. In the original sahlab, the thickening and flavoring ingredient was the tuber of orchids. This orchid, likely due to the deliciousness of drinks and desserts that can be made from its tuber, is … [Read more…]
Crustless Noodle and Roasted Vegetable Quiche
I had some leftover cooked wide egg noodles and some roasted vegetables from a previous meatloaf meal. The meatloaf was eaten up right away, and neither leftover side dish would have been enough on its own, so I decided to make them both into a sort of crust-less quiche. (There was about 1 cup of chopped noodles and 1 cup of chopped vegetables, … [Read more…]