15 August 2015
Pea and Mint Tart
I'll admit, these last few weeks have me in some sort of crabby baby-land funk. It's 117 degrees outside, I'm six months pregnant, and I live in Egypt. What I (...)
23 July 2015
Baking with einkorn flour and homemade pizza
If you've been reading here for a while then you'll know that I like to experiment in baking with different flours. That sometimes results in things like (...)
5 July 2015
Seedlicious Bread
Hi there! I can't believe it's been so long since we've seen each other! What have you been up to? How is your summer going? We have SO MUCH to talk about.The (...)
9 May 2015
Josephine's Spicy Fish (Samke Harra)
Ah-he-he-hem. Hello there. Did the month of April just pass by completely unobserved on this blog? Well, let's not dwell on that shall we? Hopefully later we (...)
27 March 2015
Orange-scented cream triangles with portuguese flavor
One of the "problems" of living with someone who conducts food research as a serious hobby is that we almost never make anything more than twice. Oh that (...)
26 January 2015
Syrian stuffed onions
Well then. 2015! What does 2015 have in store for you? Last year, we came into the year knowing roughly how the year was going to play out. I started 2014 (...)
10 December 2014
Hummus Musabaha
I started to write a long-ish post about starting to settle in here in Cairo, and what it's like being an expat in a Muslim country over Christmas, but then I (...)
1 December 2014
Egyptian Meat Pies
Hello from warm, sunny, smoggy, crowded Cairo! I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving. We are just settling in here, but are lucky to have some great neighbors (...)
19 November 2014
How to make your own harissa and why you should
Harissa is all over the place in America these days, everywhere we turn there's the North African chili paste on menus and condiment lists and every cooking (...)
13 November 2014
Lida Lee's Cornbread Dressing
In the South, no meal would be complete without some form of cornbread, and no holiday can be had without cornbread dressing. Unlike in the North, where it is (...)
27 October 2014
Pumpkin hummus with mushroom, date and chili topping
If you are like me, you make dinner most nights. Some nights it's good, some nights you are lucky to hit the mediocre mark and comfort yourself with the (...)
20 October 2014
Diners and Chocolate Crispy Treats
Right before we closed on our apartment, I watched a sweet little video about the dying (extinct?) art of neon sign making in New York City. Which is why, (...)
15 October 2014
Roasted broccoli salad with pomegranates walnut creamy dressing
Remember back a couple weeks ago when we talked about broccoli? Maybe you thought I was kidding, that only a crazy person would OD on broccoli before moving to (...)
5 October 2014
Za'atar Cured Salmon
I hate saying that we've been busy. It's one of those American things that has come to annoy me the more I live outside the country, in the same way that I try (...)
24 September 2014
Blueberry custard crumble bars
Weren't you supposed to be somewhere else by now? That's the phrase I keep hearing from friends and colleagues whenever I see them. Yes, I sigh with an (...)
