Q: If it looks like pesto, smells like pesto and tastes like pesto, does that mean you can call it pesto? A: No, you can’t. Pesto doesn’t have many ingredients, so the ones it does have are a pretty integral part of any respectable pesto recipe. However, every day you will find recipes like parsley presto or pesto with walnuts… View Post
So, nut butter. Nut. Butter. Nutbutter. I love saying that. It sounds so right. Some nuts are meant to be turned into soft, velvety, buttery goodness. And the perfectly delicious cashew is one of them. Cashews are everyone’s secret favourite nuts. They are always the first to disappear from mixed nut bowls at parties, even though people nonchalantly pretend to… View Post
Tis was the Summer of Falafel- hot, crunchy balls of green goodness smothered in garlicky tahini, and stuffed into pillowy fresh flatbread. For breakfast. Everyday. For two weeks straight. I think there was some kind of beach in the background and a couple of happy, sticky kids… but I digress. My vacation was all about the falafel (or taameya, as… View Post
It’s fresh corn season and we are corn-ing it up here. Corn salsa, corn on the cob, sweet corn salad, corn kernels sneaked out of the the freezer bag right after I’d just sealed it. Ehm. Summer vacation five-year-old idle hands. So we all try to limit the amount of food we eat that comes from a can, right? And… View Post
Egyptian Ramadan and Eid El Fitr go hand in hand with an abundance of butter and ghee. Which I don’t eat purely for flavour related reasons. Yes, I know I’m weird. No, I failed to change my taste bud preferences. Anyway; since this year a lot of fellow Egyptian Coptics are fasting-plus I’m really craving snowy white ghee-less kahk that… View Post
