Author: cia
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I loved reading Diana Abu-Jaber’s The Language of Baklava. Not only did I read about how it was like to grow up with a Jordanian father and an American mother, I also learned how to cook some of her family’s dishes. Ingredients: 1 cup of fine bulgur wheat, soaked in water for about an hour…
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I love how rich the green of this soup is. If your guest is adamant about eating soup with meat, brown some bacon and chop to smaller pieces. Add the bacon at the same time you garnish the soup with the asparagus tips. Ingredients: vegetable stock 1 bunch of asparagus, chopped, reserving the tips 1…
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Vegetable stock? Even the biggest carnivore would want a simple soup without meat. Ingredients: leeks, greens only, roughly chopped carrot, peeled and chopped celery stalk, chopped parsley branches bay leaf salt and olive oil 1. Sauté leeks in a stock pot with hot olive oil. Add and lightly brown the rest of the ingredients. Add…
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This is the boy’s favorite dish among the many I try to cook for him. Rachel cooked this dish for her husband and it passed his test–he’s Moroccan. Serve this with crusty bread and even a Korean man would be impressed. Ingredients: 6 chicken drumsticks and thighs, skin removed half a bag of baby carrots…
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Adapted from Marcus Samuelsson, Aquavit Restaurant Ingredients: For the meatballs: 3/4 pound ground beef 3/4 pound ground pork 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs 1/4 cup heavy cream 1 medium red onion, finely chopped 2 tbsps honey 1 egg 3 tbsps unsalted butter salt, pepper, olive oil For the sauce: 1 cup chicken stock 1/2 cup…
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135A North 5th Street off Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 718/302.5151 about $50 for two, without drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ ♥ My only complaint about egg is that it stops serving breakfast at noon. That doesn’t give me enough time to wake up in Harlem and trudge all the way to Brooklyn to eat breakfast.…
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101 St. Marks Place between First and Avenue A 212/677-2226 about $80 for two, with two drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ Whenever I’m craving for a lamb dinner but don’t necessarily want Indian food, I go to Cafe Mogador. Their tagines are excellent here and my favorite is the lamb with couscous in saffron sauce.…
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I love Everyday Food because they have simple recipes like this pastry snack using the frozen kind. I’m sure Martha would prefer that you make your own pastry shell from scratch and pick raspberries from your own garden, but frozen pastry and raspberries in a jar work, too. Ingredients: 1 box or 6 pieces of…
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Vichyssoise, pronounced as vee-shee-swaz, is a fancy term for a thick creamy potato soup flavored with leeks, usually served cold. Ingredients: 3 medium-sized leeks, roughly chopped and thoroughly washed minus the hard green leaves 1 clove garlic, minced 4 small Yukon gold potatoes, peeled; 2 cut into smaller chunks and the other julienned 3 medium-sized…
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How do you dress up ham? If you’re Filipino, there’d be pineapple slices and cherries on top, but if you’re French, you use lavender. I went all over Manhattan to find fresh lavender sprigs and finally found them at a Whole Foods store in Chelsea. I’m not French, of course, but who says I can’t…
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A very nutritious and green salad that children may hate. Ingredients: 2 pounds of fresh green beans, ends snapped 1 small box of frozen lima beans 2 tbsps fresh tarragon, finely chopped, plus more for garnish 1 bunch of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1/4 cup of white wine vinegar 3 tbsps Dijon mustard 1 shallot,…
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This is my basic recipe for making meatballs at home using either ground pork, beef or lamb. Depending on the dish I am using the meatballs for, I add breadcrumbs and an egg to make sure they remain intact when added. For more tagine and stew dishes, I skip both, substitute the nutmeg for cumin…