I love the taste of a shawarmaWhether it's the chicken or the beef/lamb mixture my local place makes, seeing those thin strips of meat shaved off their rotating meat tower and briefly browned off before being placed in a warmed pita bread with a generous drizzle of sauce (tzatziki, hummus, tahini or garlic) is a treat ... and it's all delicious, ( Read more... )

I bought a big bunch of fresh mint at the city market a week ago and had to come up with some quick ideas for ways to use it up.

This was ONE of my favourites ... Spinach, cheese and pine nut phyllo squares (see link to recipe at the bottom)


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There are two very similar beef and rice meatball soups that I like and that I was torn between making ... a Greek version in an egg-lemon sauce which is called "youvarlakia avgolemono" and a Spanish/Mexican version with a tomato based sauce called "albondigas". I chose the Greek version because I wasn't in the mood for tomatoes and because I hadn' ( Read more... )

Sunday has become my cooking and household chores day. So, while laundry was being done in the basement, I made a spatchcocked roast chicken (salt and pepper and italian seasoning and basted with olive oil) served with linguine with a pesto sauce,  and accompanied by coleslaw since I was out of lettuce. Dessert was a blackberry panna cotta and the ( Read more... )