This potato salad derives from a family recipe I’ve learnt from my step-mom. The original version is just as vegan as this, but I added some chick peas this time to make it a little heartier, and the dressing of course is my own making. The basic concept is the perfect union between capers, Russian [...]
By Anni
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Also tagged apple, caper, garlic, leek, mustard, paprika, picnic, potato, salad, salted cucumber, side dish
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Ever since I saw the recipe for Lemony Risoni on Emmie’s blog, I’ve been wanting to make something with this pasta camouflaged in the shape of rice. It’s so cute, and absorbs flavors even more readily than other shapes of pasta. Otherwise this is a pretty basic salad recipe with a basic vinaigrette, but I [...]
I have visited the US a few times, and one of the things I miss most is that the supermarkets carry hummus and baba ghannouj in a number of flavors - my favorite being the roasted red bell pepper. Lately the bigger supermarkets in Finland have started carrying one brand of Swedish hummus that is [...]
By Anni
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Also tagged cumin, easy, garlic, hummus, lime, recipe, red bell pepper, roasted bell pepper, snack, spread, sunflower seeds, vegan, vegetarian
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This is a great simple soup that I discovered when I was in Fez a few years back. We stayed in the old town, medina, and close to our hotel was a hole-in-a-wall type of breakfast place, serving freshly baked bread and chickpea soup. The soup was so delicious that we went there every morning, [...]
By Heikki
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Also tagged appetizer, arab, cumin, garlic, Habeeb Salloum, leek, main course, paprika, potato, pressure cooking, recipe, soup, vegan, vegetarian
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November 19, 2007 – 15:46
Fava beans, also known as broad beans, are very delicious, but there’s one problem: they have thick skin, and every bean needs to be peeled separately. Especially dried fava beans are a little difficult to work with. I was very happily surprised when we found dried split fava beans at a local shop, Al Marwan. [...]
By Anni
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Also tagged bean dip, bondbönor, dip, fava beans, ful medames, garlic, lemon, onion, parsley, puree, recipe, snack, spread, vegan, vegetarian
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November 12, 2007 – 17:07
This dish was the second recipe we made from our new cookbook, Habeeb Salloum’s Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East & North Africa. It is a collection of hundreds of simple traditional recipes from the Arab world, and has already become one of our favorite cookbooks. This dish originates in the Arabian Gulf, where [...]
We just had this easy soup for lunch today. I have made it for many years, and the only recent additions are lemon grass and raw cabbage. Lemon grass can be left out, but it does compliment the flavors of this soup.
Here’s what we put in the soup:
4 large potatoes (almost the size of my [...]
My mom grew Swiss chard (mangoldi in Finnish) for the first time this summer at our country house, and we have eaten a lot of it with Heikki. One of our new favorites is this recipe, which I adapted from a recipe for a vegetarian version of Tunisian sahel. Unfortunately chard is not generally [...]
For a quick lunch on Friday, I made a pasta salad with the ingredients we had at home. My pasta salads vary a lot, exactly because I usually make them when I am hungry, and want to have something fast and tasty. This was the first time I used cashew-arugula pesto as a dressing for [...]
