Yo, I found my sweet potato bisteeya recipe in email, and I don't think I ever posted it here ( Read more... )

So I have no idea how to spell this and google isn't helping (I suspect if I could read Arabic google would have been more useful) but we make fareekh (sp?) tonight. As far as I can figure, based on Mike's description of foods his mother and grandmother made, fareekh is a catchall word for chicken casseroles. Apparently grandmère has a thing for ( Read more... )

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Make plans with your lover to cook an elaborate middle eastern dinner, starring the preserved lemons you put up last month ( Read more... )

Sunday night I found myself needing to pull together a meal for someone with food allergies at the last minute--ratatosk and I had mostly finished preparing food when we decided to invite Fish to join us for dinner, and nearly everything contained ingredients that Fish can't eat. Luckily R had some chicken breasts in the freezer, so I mixed up a Fish-safe ( Read more... )

What's your favorite dish to bring to a potluck, and why? Bonus points for recipes!

(Church thingy this weekend and I'm bored and uninspired by usual potluck recipes.)


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Here's what I served last night for Novroz (observed). For the record, I feel really guilty that I didn't get my act together to grow sabzeh (sprouted wheat) or make samanu (pudding made from sprouted wheat), nor did I manage to assemble the haft-sin table. But I did get all the traditional good-luck foods, and I remembered to light candles! My ( Read more... )

I haven't done a recipe post in forever. Here's what I'm bringing with me to Christmas dinner tonight:

Vegan Shepherd's PieI tried this at Thanksgiving, and it went really well, so am repeating it for Christmas. I kind of made the recipe up based on combining the parts I liked from a bunch of recipes for mushroom-y things on the internet ( Read more... )

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The other day I asked Twitter what to do with a zillion eggplants. I didn't want baingan bharta (again), really didn't want to go to the effort of making eggplant parm, and had no ideas beyond those two go-to recipes because I kind of hate eggplant and only eat it when it appears in the farm share. roselemberg responded with "bake it in the oven, then make a ( Read more... )