I prepared this for a weekend lunch when I wanted to use up all the veggies in my fridge. The avocado cream from my kibbeh post and the cooked tomato pulp (remains from a tomato sauce that I had prepared from the night before) were a great accompaniment to serve with some toasted pita pockets. [...]
I will be taking a little break before my beautiful girls start school, but wanted to leave you with something before I part. Hope you enjoy and have a great week ahead! —————– I was feeling adventurous at the wrong time of the day. It was after work, no dinner yet… I wanted to make [...]
I have a great news to share with everyone. My one and only brother Jean had his first baby girl this weekend. I became an auntie to a beautiful baby girl Alicia. She is so tiny but yet so perfect and precious in every way. To welcome baby Alicia home, I decided to make some [...]
I am sure most of you have heard of Heidi Swanson and her famous blog 101cookbooks.com, but if you have not, it’s worth taking a browsing trip to her land of beautiful photos and delicious recipes. This is a recipe she had posted recently and it looked so great that I had to make it. [...]
This was our weeknight dinner when my husband’s sister, Isabelle told me she was coming over to see us. I was inspired to make a dinner with figs from my Trader Joe’s visit at my work lunch. It does involve many steps, but it’s not very time consuming. I don’t feel like writing a whole [...]
I made this salad as a a side when I prepared lentils pilaf known as “Mujedereh.” Sorry don’t have any pics of the Mujadereh since I did not take any pictures the first time I made this… I will share it one of these days. We normally make cabbage salad on the side [...]
I sometimes feel drained from work that I am toooo tired to think of what we are having for dinner. However, sometimes when I feel rushed is when I start making up a recipe as I go. Here is quick dinner idea that turned out well. I used frozen Alaskan salmon that can be [...]
In addition to my food blog and cookbook dose, I also love subscribing to cooking magazines. I have always looked forward to my issue of Bon Appetit magazine. My favorite section is their R.S.V.P section, where readers request their favorite restaurant recipes and Bon Appetit requests the recipe on their behalf and publishes the recipe [...]
This is a super fun and easy salad to make. I think it’s perfect when it’s hot outside and you don’t really want to go near the oven.
I have been wanting to make this recipe since last year’s season of Food Network Star aired. In this episode, Aarti’s challenge was to prepare a dish for a culinary legend to re-invent a dish of the best thing he ever ate. Unfortunately, I do not recall the name of the culinary legend. All I [...]