Marc’s Chicken – Exploring Mom’s Recipe Box #7

So I have to say that I love that my mom used whatever index cards she could find for her recipe box. There was a pile of index cards that one of her kids must have put the alphabet on. Never one to be wasteful, she would use the card with the first letter of…

Making Khoresh Bademjun (Persian Eggplant Stew) in Sweden

I am in Sweden visiting my daughter and her family. We were invited to their Persian friends house for a cookout challenge – her khoresh bademjun v. my khoresh bademjun. Unfortunately, on the day of the challenge, their family was sick, so it was cancelled. Since I had already roasted 6 medium eggplants, it would…

Broccoli Rice – Exploring Mom’s Recipe Box #4

When I was growing up, rice was something we only had when we ordered Chinese food. Well, that’s not totally true, there was Rice-a-Roni, the ever-present side dish. But really, can we count that as rice? It didn’t even come to my mind as rice until I typed the first sentence of this blog. So,…

Chicken and Mushrooms – Exploring Mom’s Recipe Box #3

The next recipe I tried from my mom’s recipe box came with the warning “Don’t taste before cooking!” I have to say, that made me smile. A dish that is more than the sum of its parts. As you can see, this recipe is from Stephanie, my sister-in-law. I can definitely date this to the…

Zucchini Casserole – Exploring Mom’s Recipe Box #2

Zucchini, mushrooms, tomato puree, and cheese – it’s a winning combination. This looked worth trying. I don’t know whose recipe this was, the recipe, like most, was in my mom’s handwriting, but she usually put a name on top. I have some guesses, I remember eating this (and not because my mom ever actually made…

Exploring mom’s recipe box – revisiting the 1970’s

While searching for some specific papers in my file box of my parents’ “stuff”, I came across my mom’s recipe box. A simple lucite holder of index cards. I had long ago taken out her own recipes, and my versions of those have been in my cookbooks (stuffed cabbage, sweet and sour meatballs, and noodle…

It’s a Soup Exchange!

How am I spending my time and energy now that the cookbook is done? Not cooking anything from my cookbook. That may sound funny, but I have made these dishes over and over, especially in the last 6 months, until every recipe was just how I wanted it and each dish had a photo worthy…

Latke Variations

This has been a fun food Hanukah. Since my son was sick in bed all week, food was our main excitement (after a fun first night party at a friends house). Tonight we are having a potato and corn latke sandwich based on a recipe by Navab Ebrahimi. I will share how I make that…