If you are like me and have a sweet spot for Middle Eastern foods, then you have probably tried a few recipes that feature preserved lemon. Or at least you have seen them on the ingredient list and maybe wondered what they are. Don’t be discouraged and give preserved lemons a try. They are easy to make, add an amazing flavor intensity to any dish and absolutely belong into your range of condiments. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Make Way for Preserved Lemons in Your Life”
Tag: Soups
Nourishing Connections: Great Food, Great Cause
For the last few months, I’ve had the fortune to help a friend prepare her weekly meals. With plenty of recipes in my repertoire, coming up with a weekly menu wasn’t a challenge at all. Still, I’m always on the look-out for easy-to-make dishes that I can share with all of you. Which is why I was thrilled when my friend recommended a new cookbook to use for her meals: Nourishing Connections Cookbook by Ceres. For those who know it, keep up the good work and use it as your guide to make delicious dishes. For the rest of us, rejoice in having found a great resource with simple, versatile and easy to make recipes that are full of flavor, taste and a lot of wholesomeness. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Nourishing Connections: Great Food, Great Cause”
Surf and Turf in a Soup
The jury is still out on whether a soup featuring sausage is actually a soup or, rather, a sausage delivery device. Based on my kids’ responses to this dish, it’s probably more of the latter. They have fallen in love with this soup and now plead with me to make it over and over again. Yes, I know that it contains too much sausage, even of the healthy kind, but a bowl of this soup warms you from the inside out. And with the added taste complexity, it takes you on an interesting flavor adventure that might well be worth the sausage extravagance. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Surf and Turf in a Soup”
A Bowl of Soup for You?
What dish can be prepared in one pot, be cooked quickly and offers pretty much any variety you like? Anyone? Yes, it’s a pot of soup and I’d like to share my favorite soup recipes this week. And unless you live in the Southern Hemisphere – which I know some of you are 🙂 – there are few dishes that warm your heart, soul and stomach more during these colder winter months than a delicious bowl of soup. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “A Bowl of Soup for You?”
Pappa al Pomodoro
It’s common sense. Children learn by imitation. And because of this they eat what we eat (or what they see people around them eating or avoiding). With that in mind, let me tell you about my oldest son’s most favorite dish: Pappa al Pomodoro. It is a dish he watched his father eat every Saturday at the little Italian restaurant in our neighborhood, and it is one that has become near and dear to his heart. If it were up to him we’d be eating the Pappa (a.k.a. tomato soup) for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Thankfully the rest of the family is happy to go along with his wishes. But it wasn’t always the case… Continue reading “Pappa al Pomodoro”