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
Shawarma. I would truly and honestly prefer to get a chicken shawarma sandwich (or two. Or three.) than a bouquet of exotic flowers any day. There are several variations of this beautiful, wonderful, perfectly delicious chicken sandwich but my favourite is the Syrian version, largely due to the fact that every Syrian that has ever sold me one of these… View Post
My favourite childhood meal was spaghetti bolognese. I’d come home from school and follow the scent of simmering meaty bolognese sauce to the kitchen and try to sneak a few spoonfuls from the pot before my mom caught me red mouthed. Ok, ok I still do this at 33 years old. Still my favourite meal, and my mom still does… View Post
Golden deep fried balls of fluffy mashed potatoes, stuffed with tasty turkey. Finger food? Check. Kid friendly? Check. Can be made with leftovers? Check. Freezer meal? Check. Delicious and addictive? Check and check. I rarely deep fry anything, but these potato and turkey croquettes most definitely can’t be baked, and let me tell you that they’re worth every extra calorie…. View Post
