This is an adaptation of an idea in bonappetit.com and it made an easy and tasty midweek dinner. I chose it because Carol likes Brussels Sprouts, which are a main ingredient. In the original recipe, 2.25 tsp. of five-spice powder was added at the end. Carol is not a big fan of five-spice powder, so Read More …
I received for Christmas Ken Forkish’s book Evolutions in Bread: Artisan Pan Breads and Dutch-Oven Loaves at Home, which includes many recipes using flour from older forms of wheat. I baked my first loaf yesterday using Einkorn, which is a primitive wheat. It has lower yields than modern wheat and is more difficult to process Read More …
This year, the family will all be together at Nick and Anna’s house for Christmas and the plan for Christmas Eve is a large variety of seafood dishes. Carol decided to contribute a batch of Thai fried spring rolls, substituting shrimp and imitation crab (krab) for the usual pork. This is how she made them Read More …
A very popular street food in Istanbul is mussels stuffed with rice. This is a simpler deconstructed version in which the mussels are put on top of a bed of flavored rice. It is adapted from John Gregory-Smith’s book Turkish Delights and serves 4. (Half it if serving 2 people.) I used frozen NZ mussels Read More …
I roasted 2 turkeys for Thanksgiving, and in true peasant style, did not want to waste any part of the turkeys. Thus I turned the livers into paté in the same way that I previously made duck liver paté, which was based on a recipe in The Essential Pepin. 2 turkey livers (~5 oz. total), Read More …
Looking through my Turkish cookbooks, I spotted a pide which included artichokes in Turkish Delight. Since Carol likes artichokes, I decided to try it, and it was a winner. It made a nice dinner with a salad. The amounts below are for 2 servings: ½ recipe of Pide Dough 3.5 oz. cooked chicken, shredded or Read More …
Pide is the Turkish version of pizza. They have a distinctive shape, which is long and narrow with twisted ends, and look vaguely like a boat. They can have fillings similar to pizza as well as very different fillings. The recipe below is the quantity of dough to make 4 individual pides, each of which Read More …
Since we visited Turkey last month, I have been looking for Turkish recipes to try and I spotted one at www.177milkstreet.com which looked interesting. Essentially it is a form of grantinéed potatoes including yogurt, cheese, and garlic. This recipe will make 6-8 servings and will take about 2 hours to prepare. It was very good. Read More …
A popular Turkish kebab is made from ground lamb. This version is based on a recipe in Turkish Delights. I found that it did not stick together well on our Turkish skewers, so I grilled it with out them. It had a tendency to stick to the grill. Possibly I should have chopped it more Read More …
I had some NZ mussels on the half-shell in the freezer and was looking through my Thai cookbooks for a suitable recipe. I noticed that three books had an unlikely combination of mussels and pineapple with red curry paste, so I decided to give it a try. The version I made was mostly based on Read More …