This is a wonderfully flavorful dish that can be easily prepared in a pinch. If you cannot find the kaffir lime leaf, omit it (although it adds nice flavor). You can also use standard string beans instead of the long beans. Make sure to cook the dish on as high a heat as possible so […]
Author: Lillian Magidow
Yellow summer squash curry
This recipe is a perfect one for summer – it uses yellow summer squash which is always in abundance and ends up tasting very light. It takes very little time to cook, and there’s not really very much prep. The hardest part is getting the spices together, but overall there’s not that much chopping or […]
Savory chicken apricot pie
There is a restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin, called “Mediterranean Cafe” aka MedCaf and they have perfected how to do ‘fast food’ right. They make huge batches of homecooked food, and have such quick turnover that it’s always really fresh. Every day they have 4 specials, in addition to some standby items that are always available […]
Make your own mustard for fun and profit
So it turns out making your own mustard is ridiculously easy, though not actually that profitable since mustard powder is not actually that much cheaper than just buying mustard. However, given how easy it is, there’s almost no reason not to make it. The main ingredient is yellow mustard seed powder, which you should be […]
Crockpot beef and broccoli
This is unfortunately a bit of a non-recipe, since I just eyeball the ingredients. However, it turns out delicious every time I’ve made it, it takes almost no effort, and it makes a lot. Obviously beef and broccoli is normally a stir-fry and doesn’t make that long to cook. The advantage to this recipe is […]
Around the house bread making
So I’ve posted a few bread recipes here, but this post is more about my technique, since I’ve gotten it down to enough of a science that it makes less mess than most bread recipes, and the results are always really good. I personally do not find “no-knead” recipes to be any less work than […]
Saving chicken broth
This is a really just a tiny useful technique thing, but we find it really helpful in our house. Whenever I used to make chicken broth, I would wait till it cooled, then find old tupperware, jars, etc to put the broth in. The problem is, I mostly use broth in small quantities, so it […]
Lamb Kufta with Eggs
These are meatballs for when your grandmother isn’t coming over. They are garlicky and full of spices, with jolly hard-boiled eggs for added satisfaction, providing a great mess of comfort food for a cold winter night. I got the recipe from Cracking Curries, and added the pressure cooker option, which makes the meatballs oh-so tender. The […]
Maqluba With Chicken, Cauliflower and Carrot مقلوبة دجاج وزهرة وجزر
So this is a very traditional, and very delicious dish from the Arab Levant. It is called “maqluba” which means “flipped over” due to the very last step of flipping the pot onto a serving platter. I always laugh because instead of being chicken on rice, it’s rice on chicken until that last step, and […]
Lentil Loaf
A friend of ours had us over for dinner one night and served us an amazing lentil loaf – it was cooked in a pie pan, and had a nice solid consistency. He claimed it was a British wartime recipe, a meatloaf substitute in a time of scarcity. I kept bugging him for the recipe, […]