Thanks to Ruth of the Perfect Blood Sugar blog for the excellent suggestion to have a category for recipes that are vegan, or easily modifiable to be vegan. I’ve gone back through the last 50 or so posts and added the vegan ones to that category, and I’ll try and do the rest soon. Let …
Calabro – The Best Ricotta Cheese in America
Calabro Whole Milk Ricotta Cheese
Like most things in life, there is ricotta and there is ricotta. For long-baked dishes, it might not make that much difference. But take one bite of this Calabro’s fresh cheese and you might think you never had ricotta before. It has the same clean milky sweetness that …
Recipe: Atayef – Syrian Ricotta-Filled Dessert Pancakes
Atayef – Syrian Ricotta-Filled Dessert Pancakes
I took one look at the picture of these in Poopa Dweck’s spectacular cookbook, Aromas of Aleppo, The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews and knew imediately that I had to make them. I served them at a recent Men Cook event for dessert, after a meal that also included …
Why You Need an Instant-Read Kitchen Thermometer
An instant-read thermometer might seem like one of those kitchen gadgets you don’t really need. Most of us cook by the seat of our pants anyhow, right? Maybe it seems a little too “cheffy?” But I think you’ll find that if you get one, even a basic $12 model like I have pictured above, you’ll …
Recipe: Syrian Style Labneh (Spiced Yogurt Cheese) – Vegetarian
Syrian Style Labneh (Spiced Yogurt Cheese)
This recipe is adapted from Poopa Dweck’s cookbook, Aromas of Aleppo, The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews. I wrote more about that book in this post on Syrian Red Lentil Soup.
Labneh, aka Lebneh, is eaten all over the Middle East. The term can cover a wide range of yogurt-based products …
Recipe: Syrian Vegetarian Red Lentil Soup (Shurbat Addes)
Syrian Red Lentil Soup (Shurbat Addes)
This recipe, and the next couple that I post, are adapted from Poopa Dweck's spectacular cookbook, Aromas of Aleppo, The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews.
Aleppo was home to a major Jewish population from the time of the Babylonian exile (600 BCE). They experienced golden ages under the Byzantines and …
Review 360 Roundup: Txori in Seattle (Belltown)
Marcona Almonds with Pimenton and Sea Salt
Welcome to the roundup of our inaugural Seattle Restaurant Review 360! If you missed it, the idea is that we invite all the bloggers in the city to visit the same restaurant whenever is convenient for them, and then publish a review on the same day. For this first …
