rice & grains

ajwain seed flavored angú with leeks, fava beans and cheddar

June 15, 2010

Angú is a thick porridge made from ground corn mixed with water and some salt that’s popular in Brazil. You cook it for a long time, stirring constantly under low heat until it thickens and a crust forms at the bottom of the pan. My mom made it every now and then when I was [...]

Read the full article →

fish kibe AKA kibe de peixe

June 10, 2010

This recipe comes from our new friend, Nagib. We just got to know him last week while he was in San Francisco for a conference. He knows our lovely friend, Omar, who we met through John last year. Small world: Omar is from Lebanon and Nagib is Brazilian of Lebanese descent. Apparently Nagib went to [...]

Read the full article →

mung bean dal pilaf

May 27, 2010

This recipe comes from the Ajanta: Regional Feasts of India cookbook. I made it by special request as Heguiberto wanted it to go with his Kashmiri eggplant dish from the same book. I’ve never cooked with mung bean dal before. Hegui tells me that “dal” means “split” so “split peas” would become “pea dal” for [...]

Read the full article →

weirdcombos-style red lentil dal & olive pilaf

May 18, 2010

According this cool book about the history of Indian food that I’ve been reading, Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, by Lizzie Collingham; pulao, pilaf, pilau and paella are essentially the same term for Eurasian rice dishes from India to the Iberian peninsula. Steven and I had a big discussion about it over Shirazi [...]

Read the full article →

stuffed sumac and mint bulgur dumplings

May 12, 2010

This recipe comes from “The Rural Taste of Lebanon: a Food Heritage Trail.” I found it appealing because I’m unfamiliar with sumac, which I’ve also seen spelled “somak,” and I wanted to see what it might taste like. The potato onion filling reminded me a lot of what you might stuff into Polish perogies. I [...]

Read the full article →

walnut raisin bread

April 19, 2010

This recipe is in latest issue of bon appétit, in the reader’s favorite restaurant recipes section. I love making recipes from magazines. I think that it’s a real test of the magazine’s quality if it turns out well in my kitchen. I’ve dropped several food magazines (that shall remain nameless) after trying a few of [...]

Read the full article →

Shirazi baked saffron polow with spinach

April 14, 2010

Recently Hegui took up this book, Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors. Among other things, it says that the words “polow,” “pilau,” “paella,” and “pilaf” all essentially mean the same thing: a dish made of rice mixed with other ingredients. That’s interesting. Today’s polow comes from my favorite, Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey! [...]

Read the full article →

homemade vegetarian quibe AKA khichcar

April 12, 2010

Last month we received a beautiful and rare cookbook, The Rural Taste of Lebanon by Chérine Yazbeck, as a gift from our blogger friend, Joumana Accad, from Taste of Beirut. Joumana, thanks again for this exciting gift! The author, Yazbeck, focuses on traditional and less well-known foods from the Lebanese countryside. She seems bowled over [...]

Read the full article →

Taste of Beirut style eggplant tomato bulgur casserole without the dish

March 16, 2010

We at weirdcombinations have become big fans of Taste of Beirut (which I’ll abbreviate as “ToB” here). Many of the exciting recipes on that blog offer delicious vegetarian options and creative uses of seasonal ingredients all presented in an accessible and personal style that we really enjoy. Last week I saw the ToB post for [...]

Read the full article →

arroz de bacalhau com brocolis AKA salt cod & broccoli flavored rice

February 26, 2010

I got the idea for this dish from this wonderful arroz de bacalhau we had in the company of our dear friends, Luiz and Sávio, at a beach kiosk in Vitória while we were visiting back in early February. There the dish was served in those stunning and very authentic dark clay pots from Paneleiras [...]

Related Posts with Thumbnails

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →