I fell in love with cooking when I started to cook without recipes. When I let my intuition tell me what to do with the ingredients I have in hand. I would take the vegetables out of the fridge or pantry, place them on the counter and while I rinse them or chop them ideas …
I googled the history of lentils and found out a few interesting and fun facts. Man has been eating tiny dried lentils practically since the beginning.Wow, really? I wonder how did they know they were edible. By 6000 B.C., lentils had reached Greece, where the legumes were regarded as poor man’s food. The opposite …
I love to treat vegetables like meat. The other day I was curious to see what would happen if I pretended that a bunch of roasted golden beets were raw salmon. I somehow knew that they would resemble cured salmon with their white strokes and bright color but I wasn’t sure how they would taste …
There are so many ways to include vegetables in your meals. The most exciting way, in my opinion, is to make a bunch of mezes /tapas /small plates for dinner instead of a typical main dish-side-and-salad dinner. This is a baba ganoush but without mayonnaise or tahini, instead you drizzle a a paprika & chili …
I don’t know whose idea it was to infuse oil with spices but it’s a good one. My Moroccan grandmother and mother always kept a jar of oil infused with paprikas in the fridge. My mother infuses canola oil with sweet and hot paprikas. I used olive oil for a while and now I use …
I adapted this brittle recipe years ago from My New Roots cookbook. Before the pandemic I used to make it on a weekly basis . I put it in my boys’ lunch bags. It’s gluten-free, grain-free, vegan and refined sugar free and delicious and crunchy. I totally forgot about it until I bumped into a …
