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 Last week I mistakenly purchased a huge container of vanilla yogurt. Ooops! I meant to buy plain yogurt. So I decided to return the wrong yogurt and replace it with the right one. I went through my files and found the receipt and put it in my pocket, but I forgot to bring the vanilla … [read more]  I was in the mood for a citrus cake but didn’t have any citrus fruit in the house. Fortunately, we had plenty of tangerine juice (Kemal’s favorite) in the refrigerator so I used some of that to make this cake which is fairly healthy as far as cakes go. There’s no butter or oil, and … [read more]  A theme has become apparent. I dream about lemon cakes! I must admit I’ve been obsessed about lemon cakes these days so I guess it’s normal that I would have reoccurring dreams about making them. I would have liked to have had more lime in this cake, but I made do with what … [read more]  Naan is a leavened flat bread that’s popular in many parts of the world, including India and Iran. We love both Indian and Persian cuisine, especially their flat breads. About ten years ago, Kemal and I were shopping in an Indian grocery store, and the owner was a really sweet Indian woman who was also … [read more]  I love tzatziki sauce on just about everything. It’s wonderful as a dipping sauce for kabobs, matches perfectly with falafel, and goes great with gyros. It’s also goes great with fish…much better than tarter sauce I think. In addition, it also enhances the flavor of mixed baby greens when you use it as a dressing … [read more]  I’ve been in the mood for pears lately, and initially, I was planning to make a pear cake. But I wanted something a little lighter so I decided to make some poached pears. There are many of interesting recipes out there, and most of them involved poaching the pears in red wine. I’m sure the … [read more]  Last night I decided I wanted to make some rum-poached pears and then top them with some frozen vanilla yogurt. I didn’t have any frozen yogurt in the house though, so this was the perfect opportunity for me to make it myself. I had a container of plain yogurt in the fridge, so … [read more]  Buredzici (pronounced: burr-edge-eats-see) is basically a meat-filled pastry that’s baked and then covered with yogurt and garlic after it’s cooked: Burek (pronounced: burr-eck) is a similar meat-filled pastry except burek isn’t soaked in the yogurt sauce: Both burek and buredzici are very popular in the Balkans, and Kemal, who’s from Bosnia-Herzegovina, translates both buredzici and burek as … [read more]  I unexpectedly received a bag of sweet potatoes, two heads of cabbage, and 2 ears of corn from a really sweet gal I work with, and so I decide to try something new. I browsed various recipes online on how to make sweet potatoes and found several interesting ways to cook it. One way, which … [read more]  If you ever need to bake a loaf of bread in a hurry because guests are coming over unexpectedly or you’ve been invited on the spur-of-the-moment to someone’s home for dinner and want to contribute a loaf of bread to meal, this no rise-no knead honey oatmeal bread is the perfect choice. Most of the ingredients … [read more] |
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