Mikah’s 8th Birthday Menu
Just so you know… Mikah picked everything on his birthday dinner menu! He’s a real gourmet! By that I mean, I never dreamed my child(ren) would gush over foods like cabbage salad, but he does and they do.
cabbage salad — just shredded cabbage loaded up with other veggies and pumpkin seeds, dressed with extra-virgin olive [...]
My Tata’s Chicken Soup
While dicing local onions and red potatoes on Sunday evening, and speaking with my mom on the phone, I found out that my Tata Wardeh often added turmeric to her chicken soups, for color and for health. Tata Wardeh is/was my grandmother for whom I was named; she passed away after living a long and [...]
What to do with Queso Blanco?
With the leftover raw cow’s milk from my friend, I determined to make cheese. I limited myself to the easier “bag cheeses” which are the easiest to make. After all, I am not an experienced cheese maker (though I have made Middle Eastern goat cheese).
Using a book I recently acquired used from a good friend’s [...]
Too Much Food!
How can I be saying that? Well, the freezer, fridge and cupboards are stuffed to the gills! This week, I received my every other month stock up items from a natural food warehouse (not Azure, but there’s plenty of Azure stuff from prior weeks). And we have loads of fruit and veggies from the Farmer’s [...]
Weekend Foods & Treats
The yummiest part of the weekend was making a gluten-free version of Halawa-Halawi. It was so simple I wonder why I didn’t do it before: substitute buckwheat flour for the whole wheat flour. That’s it! (Use the buckwheat flour from de-hulled buckwheat.)
I made the date version of my vanilla-coconut ice cream again. The dates make [...]
