Tag: lemons

December 8, 2008

Homemade Breakfast Goodness

First, I made some English muffins....

February 2, 2005

Purslane redux

Now that eGullet has reorganized, the links to the things I had published there are dead. So, a small attempt to salvage. And it's relevant to the sumac mention a couple of posts back--Lebanese fattoush isn't fattoush without sumac...and purslane.

February 1, 2005

Live Tagine Report: Booyakasha!

Well, that kicked ass, my pretties. It was tender enough to eat at 10:30--what was that, an hour, maybe more? Could've cooked a little longer, but would've required more liquid, as the sauce was getting a little nonexistent.

January 28, 2005

Iraqi Recipes

Here's an Iraqi woman posting basic recipes. Scroll down to the post about sumac. Hilarious...if it weren't for the thought that there really is some paranoid idiot out there who thinks that and will write a crazy email about it without doing any real research. Sigh.

September 6, 2004

Duck, duck, grease

Last night was Sunday and Peter's birthday--a double call for dinner. Tamara's sharp invitation to dinner at Peter's new apartment (housewarming too: make that a triple call for dinner) reminded us it was his Jesus year, and that the birthday boy should be affectionately referred to as "you fucking fag."

March 30, 2004

Anginares up the wazoo

Anginares sounds like a medical condition, but it's just the Greek word for artichokes, which I sampled in spades last week.

March 18, 2004

Of beans and bread, and cardoons

So I availed myself of two semi-gourmet treats that my local, non-gourmet produce stand stocks every spring: cardoons and cranberry beans.

March 2, 2004

Live Poultry

I'm getting a little worried about myself. All this bluster about fresh-killed meat, but this weekend I was dealing with a few chickens from the petting zoo and felt a small twinge of nausea.