I am very pleased with this dish. I like tabbouleh, but it is usually made with cous cous, which I cannot eat. Quinoa agrees with me very well and it is a very successful substitution. In addition to taking all kinds of seasonings very well, quinoa is really, really nutricious and probably the easiest grain…
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Home-made cheap thrill sauce- Ajvar (or Ljutenica)
Ajvar (or Ljutenica) is one of my favourite store-bought condiments. It is a relish made from sweet red peppers, eggplant and tomatoes. Some brands are spicy and some are not. It is a beautiful bright orange-red color. It makes simple, cheap food taste thrillingly gourmet and it is astonishingly inexpensive, which is why I always refer…
Cheap Eats! Vegetable Jambalaya
This is the lean time for me. I am a freelancer and, in my field, there is not much work in August or September. Don’t cry too many tears for me. I could buckle down and live within my means for my two months of underemployment, but I usually travel and have fun cooking food…
Chia Seed Pudding with Figs and Blackberries
Chia seeds are weird. If you add nut milk to them and let them sit overnight, they make an amazing pudding that is a little bit like tapioca. They have almost no flavour, so you can add extracts or seasonings to make any kind of pudding that you fancy. They are supposed to be really,…
Red Remoulade and Some of Its Many Uses
Remoulade is a classic of New Orleans cuisine. It is used to dress up cold boiled shrimp. It is served as a dipping sauce for all manner of fried seafood. It is dolloped on top of fried tomatoes. It shows up in many different forms, ranging from a mildly savoury sauce based on homemade mayonnaise,…
Broiled Stone Fruit
I have been buying a lot of nectarines and apricots lately. I love the smell of nectarines and apricots remind me of all kinds of delicious summer deserts that my Aunty Mona used to make with the fruit from her trees. I would buy peaches too, but the ones that I can get in NYC…
Travelers Potato, Leek, Gouda Soup (For a rainy day in Tallinn)
In mid-June, my sister and I spent six days in Tallinn, which is the largest and oldest city in Estonia. Tallinn offers an excellent balance between modern and medieval. If you want to travel to Europe to see traces of VERY old culture and architecture and you want to travel to a place that is…
Traveling Fools
I am not usually a big maker of puns but even I could not resist. I am going to give you a “recipe” for a strawberry rhubarb fool and my sister and I are traveling in Estonia right now…so traveling fool. Okay I’ll stop… Last week, I was attending a Nordic-Celtic-Baltic Folklorist’s conference at University…
Green Fritters with Herb Sauce
Hey, there may be a pause before our next post. My sister and I are traveling to Estonia for a month to do folklore research and generally reconnect with our roots. It might take us a minute or two to recover from travel and suss out exactly what is actually included in the “kitchenette” of…
Rio Zape Pot Beans with Collards and Roasted Garlic and Jalapeno
There are two stars in this simple dish…home made vegetable stock and Rio Zape Beans from Rancho Gordo. I have started using Silvi’s system for making experimental economical vegetable stock. It is amazing how much excellent soup stock you can get out of a week of vegetable scraps! Of course, I am not a vegetarian so…
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