Quinoa Stuffed Peppers / A Recipe in Haiku / Cooking Poetry
searching for quinoa was a challenge in Tangier found it in London I smuggled it home and then made this recipe just for all of you quinoa stuffed peppers a recipe in haiku cooking poetry the ingredients (an assortment of healthy vegetables… plus cheese) 1 cup of quinoa 3 green peppers and 1 red (with their tops removed) 1 can of chick peas 1 cup of tomato sauce 2 diced tomatoes 2 small zucchinis 2/3 cups grated cheddar 1 small onion, chopped half-teaspoon fennel half-teaspoon oregano half-teaspoon basil one pinch black pepper 2...
read more ->Feta-p With Baked, Boiled, Sautéed, and Mashed Potatoes
I know, you guys, I know. Everybody knows how to make roasted potatoes. It is a well-known fact that American fetuses develop potato roasting abilities in the womb, possibly before they develop arms with which to roast said potatoes. How else would wacky holidays based on revisionist history survive the test of time?1 But I didn’t. You heard me. Until two months ago, I didn’t know how to make roasted potatoes. Sure, I’d tried sporadically over the years; usually well-intentioned efforts at replicating my father’s...
read more ->Ginormous Ginger Stir-Fry
Ginger. I don’t quite know what to say about ginger. It is one of those elusive ingredients that is easy to find when you don’t need it for anything, and difficult to locate when you do. At least in Morocco. So when I bought a half-kilo of the stuff on a whim, I found myself struggling to find enough recipes to justify the sheer amount of ginger I’d purchased.1 And then it hit me.2 Stir-fry. Killing two birds with one heavy lump of ginger, I justified the impulse buy and satisfied my ever-present Asian food craving at the...
read more ->Infinite Feta Baked Pasta
This all started because I had too much feta. I know, right? Difficult to believe. The thing is, this one package of feta seemed endless. I used it in salad, with potatoes on no fewer than four occasions, I even snacked on bits of it from time to time. The feta continued. I was starting to think that I was at the beginning of a bad horror film: “The Feta that Ate Tangier!” Enough was enough. I came home from work on Monday with one objective: finish that feta! And that’s exactly what I did.1 Infinite Feta Baked...
read more ->Minestrone-y Minestrone
The weather is beginning to turn cold here (in Moroccan terms, that means it rained a little this week) so of course my thoughts turned to soup.1 Erm. I mean, I began craving soup.2 I have always loved minestrone, but it never made me giggle until I watched Green Wing for the first time. Here’s the scene in question: [jwplayer mediaid="2435"] So without further ado, I bring you minestrone-flavored minestrone. Vegetarian, vegan, relatively low-sodium,3 packed full of fresh vegetables, and utterly delicious. Minestrone-y...
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