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Grape Leaves and Fattoush
Lisa made this delicious dish tonight.Grape leaves, zucchini, and squash stuffed with a mixture of ground beef, rice, and various spices, a garlic and yogurt dipping sauce, and fattoush, a Lebanese bread salad with a lemon and olive oil dressing. She based it primarily on a family recipe, with a few modifications from the wonderful […]
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Larb Gai & Tom Yum Goong
This is one of our favorite dishes to make. Larb Gai is a Thai dish consisting of ground chicken mixed with rice powder, cilantro, shallots, green onions, the ever-popular fish sauce and lime juice. It’s served with cabbage leaves for scooping or wrapping. You can also make it with ground pork (Larb Moo) or beef […]
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Shrimp in Enchilado Sauce
Enchilado de camarones is shrimp in a mouth-watering tomato sauce made with beer, wine, or a combination of the two, served over rice. This recipe came from Healthy Latin Cooking, but there are similar recipes to be found elsewhere online. Delicious!
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Chicken in Green Pumpkin Seed Sauce and Hearts of Palm Salad
Made this dish for our friend Carrie one evening. The sauce was fantastic — a combination of tomatillos, jalapeños, green onions, cilantro, pumpkin seeds… it goes on and on. Yum! We had never had hearts of palm before, they were close in taste to artichokes. Very good with this simple dressing of corn, tomatoes, and […]
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New Year’s Manti and Tabbouleh
This is one of my all-time favorite Armenian dishes. Manti are crispy little canoe-shaped dumplings stuffed with ground beef, onion, and allspice. After baking them, you put them in a bowl and add chicken broth to make a delicious soup. You then top it with a garlic-yogurt mixture and some sumac. It’s awesome. Tabbouleh is […]