The Magidow family recipe box
I wanted to make something that was very Autumnal and so I started looking up pork and apple recipes. Almost all of them called for cinnamon and sounded foul, so I came up with this which I wanted to be more balanced. It turned out better than expected so I figured I’d write it up. […]
Couscous in Morocco is traditionally eaten on Fridays during lunch time, following the Friday mid-day prayers, similar to the idea of a Sunday roast after church. It’s usually a family affair, and is eaten off of a giant central platter. If you’re good, you can eat it with your hands, forming a ball of veggies, […]
This is a really easy slow cooker pot roast that doesn’t take much time to prepare, and is easy to get going when you leave to work. The most labor intensive part is skinning the onions, but our local grocery store often has them pre-skinned. Ingredients 2-3 pound beef roast (we like London broil a […]
I adapted this from a recipe found in the winter issue of Progressive Farmer, a magazine to which we subscribe and is full of interesting tidbits and arcane information. It caught my eye, as it was the strangest combination of ingredients I’ve ever seen and couldn’t imagine how it would taste. Always looking for more […]
This recipe is really simple and easy to make, but shockingly delicious – the first time I made it I was trying for something that wasn’t too much like American Chinese food but still had elements of sweet and savory. I was surprised how balanced it turned out. It’s not overly sweet, nor is it […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ages ago I bought some szechuan peppercorns for a recipe, and haven’t tried many recipes with them since. They’re very strange – they have what can only be described as a floral, citrisy taste, a bit like lychees (but less floral). In this dish, based loosely on authentic szechuan chicken recipes, they lend a really […]
I made this not quite realizing that it was a real recipe – I was thinking of making shish barak (see Mimi’s recipe for that), which is kind of like Middle Eastern ravioli. However, I had no patience for making all those little ravioli, but I really enjoyed that sauce. Only later did I realize […]
So this isn’t really a recipe of our own so much as a link, since Melanie and I don’t change the recipe at all, let alone enough to justify reposting it. We did use some herbs de provence last time, which was nice too. This is one of those really simple one-dish meals that turns […]