Tag: Turmeric

Turkey Shawarma Recipe (Kosher Connections Link Up, April 2013)

A good shawarma has the potential to be the best thing you will ever eat but a bad shawarma recipe will send you running to the hills.  Perfecting shawarma is an art that many of Jerusalem’s street vendors haven’t quite mastered. The Israeli shawarma, similar to the Greek gyro, Turkish doner kebab and the Armenian tarna, is prepared on a vertical roasting spit and can be prepared from lamb, beef or turkey.  Often you’ll [...]

15 April, 2013 // By : // 21 Comments

Book Review & Giveaway: The Bengali Five Spice Chronicles

I can get lost for hours browsing the shelves of book stores but unless I am flying alone or reading a bedtime story to our son, it’a rare that I get the chance to read, so when I find a cook book that comes to life and tells a story, as well as introducing my to a brand new world of culinary flair, I know that I have found a winning combination. [...]

28 January, 2013 // By : // 32 Comments

Falafel Flavored Quinoa Burgers

The leftover dilemma arrives every week.  Some time between lunch and dinner time on Sunday I realize the fridge is full of food but I don’t want to re-eat Friday night dinner for the next three or four meals.  Combining bok choy with some other veggies will give us a great stir fry for tomorrow night and Tuesday will be BBQ chicken pizza but when all said and done, I [...]

24 June, 2012 // By : // 21 Comments

Giveaway: The Vegan Slow Cooker (and Slow Cooker Indian Spiced Chickpea Quinoa Curry)

As echoed by my WeightWatchers leader, Anne in response to my tamale pie, the benchmark of a good vegetarian (or in this case, vegan) dish is whether or not you would serve it to meat-eating guests.  When I discovered The Vegan Slow Cooker by Kathy Hester, I read it cover to cover, and there is not a dish I would hesitate to serve to a starving carnivore.  Not only is [...]

13 March, 2012 // By : // 31 Comments

(Hummus) Chickpea Soup

My wife made this dish first, and even when following the recipe to the letter, I feel like she has the gift of the chickpea soup, which is funny because usually she hates chickpeas! I figure this supports my theory that cooking is an art, fueled by the creative right side of the brain.  Like art, every dish, even the familiar dishes, are unique each and every time.  The first [...]

21 February, 2012 // By : // 4 Comments

Turkey-Stuffed Portobello Mushroom Burgers

Food is fuel.  We eat to function, but food is also pleasure.  If food was only fuel, we’d be happy with a bowl of rice and steamed vegetables day in, day out.  Food is fuel, but good food in entertainment.  My wife has been out of town this week, and I have been slowly nursing the Mushroom-Turkey Soup I made on Monday twice a day.  Without a family to cook [...]

17 November, 2011 // By : // No Comments

Baked Tilapia with Sweet Potato and Spinach Hash

Before relocating to the Mid West earlier this year, my terra firma was the streets of Jerusalem.  I know my way around that city better than any place I have ever lived or visited.  I knew where and when to buy my produce, and where and when to avoid the bustle of the shuk (outdoor market) for fear of being trampled to death by haggling Grandmothers.  Best of all, I knew where [...]

9 October, 2011 // By : // 1 Comment

New Year Shoulder Roast

The Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShana, has passed, and with it, the first of three multi-day eating marathons of the season been completed.  You see, the Jewish New Year is not celebrated in the same way as one throws a party for New Years Eve, the two-day holiday is evenly split between praying in Synagogue, and dining with friends, family and members of the community.

4 October, 2011 // By : // 2 Comments

Lemon Thyme Chicken Tenders

For the second time this week, I share a chicken dish but these flavors could could just as easily be applied to tofu, tempeh or perhaps salmon.  Thyme is a very versatile herb but it’s not often that I use it as a primary flavor, but this dish, like many others, was born from that moment when I opened the door of the refrigerator and saw chicken, lemons and thyme.

26 September, 2011 // By : // 1 Comment