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Yo, I found my sweet potato bisteeya recipe in email, and I don't think I ever posted it here ( Read more... ) -
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While unpacking I finally found my fountain pens, and also unearthed a stack of old postcards from previous vacations--I always buy more postcards than I actually manage to write and send. Also today my "hooray you survived this miserable summer" present to myself arrived, including a set of postcards from Svitz, the fictional European country ( Read more... ) -
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I have one spare ticket to see Takarazuka perform Chicago at the Lincoln Center in NYC, Saturday evening, July 23. It cost $108.50. Anyone want to buy it off me? If you are unfamiliar with Takarazuka, they are a badass all-women theater revue from Japan, that dates back to the days when women were forbidden by law from performing in the theater. ( Read more... ) -
Recipe post
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... ) -
Recipe post: Lemon Couscous
Make plans with your lover to cook an elaborate middle eastern dinner, starring the preserved lemons you put up last month ( Read more... ) -
bbq recipes!
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... ) -
Ask the internet
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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Recipes!
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... )
