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salads, veggies and sides

Summer Squash Salad with Roasted Tomatillo Vinaigrette

After Ramadan (during which time I did not fast, but did eat pakoras for almost 30 days straight) and my sister’s wedding week (during which time I drank lots of wine and ate delicacies such as burgers and cheese fries – it was a classy wedding, I swear), my body...
brunch

Cornmeal Cake with Blackberry Glaze

I saw Nigella, kitchen goddess, make this elegant and unfussy polenta cake on her show. The blackberry glaze idea came from the photo of these donuts – gorgeous! Note: although purple and lovely, my cake was a little dry since my blackberry glaze just sits on top, so next time...
salads, veggies and sides

Sweet Corn and Blackberry Salad with Basil Vinaigrette

This hardly needs a recipe, other than the directive: throw yummy things in a bowl. This does check all the summer salad boxes though: something fruity, something crunchy, homemade dressing (the only kind), ubiquitous pickled shallot. Sweet Corn and Blackberry Salad with Basil Vinaigrette For the dressing 3 tbsp white...
soups

Chilled Blackberry Soup with Sweet Corn, Mozzerella and Ricotta

I wanted some ideas for blackberry soup, so I Googled and found several, but they were all sweet! The one savory one I found was a Russian version (Makvlis Supi) which combines blackberries with herbs and cucumbers for a chilled summer soup. “I am intrigued,” I said to myself, so...
appetizers and snacks

Dahi Baray

We are smack in the middle of Ramadan, and dahi baray are one of our favorite iftaari dishes. They are basically fried dumplings made out of besan (chickpea/gram flour) in a thin yogurt sauce. You can also make them with lentils but Shan has made it clear he doesn’t like...
appetizers and snacks•Halloween

Devilish Eggs

I’m still a Southern girl…of course I have a deviled egg plate. For deviled eggs, most use a sprinkle of paprika or aleppo pepper as a garnish, but the hedonistic and excessive use it by the spoonful. Since the flavors are otherwise subtle, the aleppo pepper shines – or smolders....
Folklore and Fairy Tales•main dish

Money Penne

The pesto has lots of symbolic prosperity ingredients: basil for prosperity, almonds for money, leafy greens for bills and sweet corn for coins. It’s super healthy, and the sweet corn, which is deliciously in season, makes it the perfect easy end-of-summer recipe that’s a little more interesting than your average...
Game of Thrones•menus

Game of Thrones Potluck: Across the Narrow Sea

We picked Across the Narrow Sea as our second potluck, hosted by House Rashid (that's us!). I was super impressed with the menu we came up with, it was fresh and exotic and delicious.
menus

Game of Thrones Potluck: Winterfell

As I've probably mentioned, I'm completely obsessed with Game of Thrones, as are my sisters. We've been watching the show, reading the books, and most recently we (and the rest of our potluck people) have been cooking the food! Our first potluck was in dreary January at my sister Meg's...
Folklore and Fairy Tales•holiday•salads, veggies and sides

Persephone Salad

I am often put in charge of salad. I guess salad is a girly thing to make so I get it by default, but maybe it’s also because I can be artful in diving into the depths of the produce drawer and pantry and emerging with interesting salad ingredients and...
soups

Roasted Green Pepper Soup

Red peppers get all the love but the humble green pepper is fresh and unexpected. I had posted a green pepper soup recipe here years ago and it was one of my most popular; I’ve tweaked it slightly and taken terribly lit moody new photos. While not as sweet as...
main dish

Tough Guy Future Noodles | Blade Runner

As reality and dystopian fiction become closer to indistinguishable, it’s no surprise that it is #DISHTOPIA Month: Eat Like It’s the End of the World, Fandom Foodies theme hosted by the lovely Catherine at The Gluttonous Geek – check out the linkup for more foodpocalypse! Blade Runner (1982) gives us...
etc•Halloween

What’s this? It’s #Burtoween!

It’s the most gloriously ghoulish time of the year, and what better way to celebrate it than with a spooktacular feast! What’s this? It’s #Burtoween! This month we’re creating recipes inspired by Tim Burton’s creepy, quirky films. Nightmare Before Christmas Pudding? A nice tall glass of Beetlejuice? Edward Skewerhands? Big...
drinks•Folklore and Fairy Tales

Homemade Strega Liqueur

Strega is a sweet and herbally Italian liqueur, created in 1860 by Guiseppe Alberti, who founded a distillery with his father Carmine Vincenzo Alberti in Benevento, known as the city of witches. Benevento has a rich history of Stregheria, and is home to a mythical walnut tree, underneath which witches...
soups

Redwall Hotroot Soup

As a child I somehow missed the Redwall books, Brian Jacques’s fantasy series of anthropomorphic animals in medieval times running around adventuring, which is unfortunate because I would have loved them! I’ve started two separate books (I started the first one, Redwall, and then – record scratch – the dish...
drinks

Pumpkin Mocha Breve | Carry On

You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On is one of the most refreshing pieces of fiction I’ve read in the last few years. A moving, magical and intensely quotable twist on Harry Potter, it follows Simon, Baz, Penelope, and Agatha at their wizarding...
soups

Poisonous Soup (Matcha Broth) | The Nightmare Before Christmas

Day-in day-out Sally, #nevernotpoisoning, tries to poison the Evil Scientist using ingredients from her quaint little garden of deadly herbs. On this particular night, she uses her deadly nightshade masked by frog’s breath and worm’s wort. My version swaps ingredients for each of these – instead of deadly nightshade, an...
baking and desserts•main dish•menus•soups

Violet Beauregarde’s Three Course Dinner | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

#FFDahlicious is a month for tasty eats inspired by Roald Dahl hosted by Katarina @ Pretty Cake Machine. Check the hashtag or the link up for lots of Dahl-inspired dishes. Violet Beauregarde, the gum-smacking, slang-slinging, disobedient daughter of a car salesman, is the second child to meet her demise in...
Arabian Nights Minty Split Pea Soup
soups

1001 Arabian Nights | Minty Split Pea Soup

One of my favorite tales spun by Scheherezade in 1001 Arabian Nights is The Prince and the Large and Lonely Tortoise. This story has everything: animal brides, shape shifting, jealous bitches, cooking trickery, and dinner party drama. If, like the sultan you are dying to hear more, and I’m almost...
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