This was one of the first Persian dishes I ever ate, and it was in Geneva, Switzerland when I first met the man who was to become my father-in-law. What a wonderful dish and a great way to start my relationship with a wonderful man! It is still one of my favorite Persian dishes, but…
Category: Main Dish
Butternut Squash Lasagna
Shout out to Kristin and her blog Iowa Girl Eats for this recipe! It is fabulous! I made it when Arielle & Emily were home (for the hurricane) and the word “delicious” was heard several times during dinner. I make a several different vegetarian lasagnas, but had never made one with butternut squash before. The flavor…
Guy Fieri’s Tijuana Kitchen Rice
My son loves Mexican rice. No, he LOVES Mexican rice. I happen grow the ingredients that make Mexican rice Mexican rice – tomatoes and jalapenos. I really enjoy cooking Guy Fieri recipes, they are always full of flavor. So…this recipe caught my eye as a version of Mexican rice that used veggies from my garden…
A Double Dose of Indian: Bhindi (Okra) & Gobi Mattar (Cauliflower and Peas)
Ode to Okra #3 is an Indian preparation – so simple and oh, so good. But we don’t eat that alone, there is typically another dish with it; one of my favorites is cauliflower and peas. Normally the okra would be from my garden, but given the poor harvest, I did not have enough to…
Green Bean Polou (Persian Rice Pilaf)
Even though my green bean harvest was a bust, I have been able to piece together a few meals with what the caterpillars left me. I had just the right amount of green beans left to try a new Persian dish. The green beans get infused with lime flavor and baked into the rice. You…
Pan-Seared Cauliflower & Spaghetti
While I wait for the broccoli and cauliflower to grow in my garden, I stopped by one of the markets that carries a lot of locally grown vegetables. As I wandered around, I bought beautiful cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts and even some locally made ricotta. So these, along with my chard, green beans, and tomatoes,…
New Old-Fashioned Cornflake Crumb Chicken Tenders
I needed cornflake crumbs for a dish a while back and have been rediscovering uses for it since. It is a memory from my childhood. My mother did not use cornmeal, but just like most New York Jewish mothers, her breading of choice was cornflake crumbs. So to me, these chicken tenders, remind me of…
Broccoli & Swiss Chard Quiche – A Joint Cammy & Mommy Cooking Adventure
Can you believe I am STILL harvesting rainbow chard from my planting this spring?! Any plant I did not pull has been producing new leaves all summer. Add the broccoli that I recently bought and we have the makings for a great quiche – which is a good new dish for our Top Chef, Cammy,…
Honey Orange Roasted Chicken
I rarely make roast chicken, but when I do, I cannot bring myself to make any other chicken than this. It has become my go-to dish for Rosh Hashanah and often finds its way to the Passover Seder (when I am not doing a Persian meal). The bird is always moist, the skin sweet and…
Fried Eggplant Khoresh (Bademjun Sorkh Kardeh)
It was an exciting night for cooking, and a good thing I planned a dinner that could all be done on the stove top. Just as I was salting the eggplant and boiling the water to blanch the tomatoes, a storm blew through and we lost power for the next 2 hours. Because of…
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