I clearly have not been a prolific blogger so far for 2008, but I have stuck to my intention to cook more, read more food blogs and where possible combine the two activities. This all became easier once I settled into my new apartment and more convenient spaces. I suppose it has helped that my travel [...]
Category Archives: recipes
Trini Kachouries
November 10, 2007 – 12:52 pm
A couple months ago the Trini Gourmet posted about her forays into making Trinidad Kachourie, a fried delicacy from the Indo-Trini background, available wherever doubles and sahinas and baiganis are sold. Trini Kachourie is a like a fritter made from ground yellow split-peas (or our dhal) or even chick peas, and seasoned with the usual [...]
A slice of macaroni pie
October 9, 2007 – 1:01 pm
A slice of macaroni pie Originally uploaded by Lilandra. I am in Jamaica, where my room is in a strange blackhole receiving deceitful mobile signals and insufficient wireless signal for the office Dell (ohhh, I miss my HP and the dead power adapter that has had me computer and internet deprived for over a week!!!). [...]
Baigani Recipe
October 3, 2007 – 4:24 pm
Here again I post another recipe involving baigan (eggplant, aubergine, melongene etc), even though, to be honest, baigan isn’t actually something I love. I don’t think I am unique in this attitude to baigan, my culinary blogger friend Cynthia talked about that in a recent post and column. I love apparently, many recipes using baigan. [...]
Kibbe Recipe
September 18, 2007 – 2:29 pm
This is one of the Syrian dishes that our family grew up with, courtesy Mom and her father. We generally make it for certain occasions, such as ‘Id, or when some family member who hasn’t had it in a while returns home. While it may be common food in parts of the Middle East, because [...]
The Alton Brown Burger
August 18, 2007 – 1:55 pm
The plan was to blog, ever so briefly about my vacation, or even try to clear some of the backlog of posts I have started. But, you know the enthusiasm comes for the most recent activity. In this case, that’s the making of the Good Eats burger, courtesy my favourite person on the Food Network [...]
Fry Aloo Recipe
July 26, 2007 – 8:09 am
I am still on vacation, but my hosts in Glasgow left me home alone with the computer and internet. And TriniGourmet forwarded a request to me a few days ago for a recipe for fry aloo which is a staple accompaniment to sada roti in Trinidad. I love this dish, although in most incarnations it [...]
Stuffed Eggplant Recipe
May 13, 2007 – 11:37 pm
This is typical of the way I cook. I get an idea in my head. I search for recipes. Find many that seem interesting, but hardly ever do I just pick one and follow it. Not when it’s something like Stuffed Eggplant, where recipes abound. Greek. Italian. Vegan. Almost every chef on Foodnetwork has a [...]
Basboosa Recipe
May 11, 2007 – 3:00 pm
This is made from semolina, with a sweet lemony syrup. I have had versions with coconut as well and I am sure it had a different name, but I can’t recall what it might be. This uses something called semnah (or samne or samnah or just samn depending on where you encounter it) which is [...]
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