This is a summer green salad with vibrant colors and healthful ingredients. The greens can be anything fresh you just pick up from the farmers market.…
easy everyday/ Mediterranean/ Salad/ Sauté/ Seafood/ summer
Couscous Salad With Shrimp and Feta | Summer Cooking
This salad is a celebration of the bounty of summer. I buy white corn by the half-dozen. Combine it with cucumber, radishes, avocado, and feta over…
foundation recipe/ Low fat/ Mediterranean/ mezze (small plates)/ my favorites/ Simmer/ vegetarian
Greek Fava and the Mediterranean Diet
Spending part of May in Greece and tasting a variety of the Greek classics drive home the notion of eating locally, seasonally and farm-to-table. Among all…
breakfast/ cheese/ cocktails/ Dorie Greenspan/ Mediterranean/ quick bread
Goat Cheese Black Pepper Quick Bread | Baking with Dorie
It’s the season first when I harvest the fresh crop of mint from my perennial herb patch amid the drizzling misty spring rain. Mint is the…
Dorie Greenspan/ Meat/ Mediterranean/ my favorites/ one-pan/ winter
Braised Lamb Shanks with Carrots and Olives | Everyday Dorie
Last time I made Dorie’s braised lamb shanks for the blog was at the height of the pandemic in April 2020. (See the full recipe here.)…
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Seafood Pasta | Everyday Dorie
The seafood pasta has a similar vibe to the holiday fish soup in the same section of Dorie’s book Everyday Dorie. Just substitute pasta in stead…
African/ foundation recipe/ Mediterranean/ one-pan/ Poultry/ year round
Chicken Tagine with Apricot and Pine Nuts | The Food of Morocco
If I have to pick my absolute favorite one-pan chicken dish, the chicken tagine with apricot and pine nuts gets the price. It has taken me…
Claudia Roden/ Cream/ dessert/ Mediterranean/ summer
Parfait Mocha Praline | Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean
With just five ingredients and a little time, you can make a company worthy dessert. The parfait mocha praline is so easy to do that any…
Appetizer/ Claudia Roden/ Mediterranean/ one-pan/ Roast/ Salad/ summer/ vegetarian
Spicy Roasted Carrot Salad | Claudia Roden
This is part two of the roasted vegetable salads in the traditional slow-cook method from Morocco. Serve the spicy roasted carrot salad along with the roasted…
When the outside temperature rises, we go for warm salads for their easy preparations. To make the salads more substantial, we like to add seafood for…
brunch/ Claudia Roden/ foundation recipe/ Mediterranean/ Poultry/ puff pastry
Chicken and Onion “Pies” with Moroccan Flavors | Claudia Roden
I took a cooking lesson with a young Moroccan woman Laila at her home in the medina in Fez. (Laila works as a cook in a…
African/ Claudia Roden/ Fish/ Mediterranean
Fried Fish with Cumin & Tahini Sauce | Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean
Claudia Roden wrote about this fried fish with cumin and Tahini sauce in her cook book. Her inspiration was from a restaurant in Tripoli, Lebanon. Meanwhile,…
brunch/ Claudia Roden/ Mediterranean/ Soup
Yogurt Soup with Orzo and Chickpeas | Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean
Claudia Roden collected this yogurt soup with orzo and chickpeas at a dinner in Istanbul to celebrate the adoption by UNESCO of Gaziantep as a Creative…
This beet fennel soup comes with many inherent advantages. Dorie points out [with this soup] you can get a mountain of flavor from a molehill of…
classics/ Claudia Roden/ Mediterranean/ pasta/ Soup
Pumpkin Soup with Orzo and Amaretti | Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean
The pumpkin soup with orzo and amaretti is inspired by the fillings in the pumpkin risotto and tortellini from the Northern Italian city of Mantua. I…
Mediterranean/ mezze (small plates)/ Seafood/ vegetarian
Scallops with Roasted Catalan Sauce | José Andrés
We are welcoming José Andrés as the current featured chef at I Heart Cooking Club whose members will be cooking and blogging his recipes. Very few…
Fish/ Mediterranean/ my favorites/ Roast/ Sauté/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Cod with Sweet and Sour Pepper | Yotam Ottolengi
When I see this recipe in Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem, one other cod dish comes to mind. It’s the cod Basquaise from Eric Ripert. The ingredients are similar,…
Mediterranean/ my favorites/ Paula Wolfert/ Poultry
Chicken Tagine with Prunes & Almonds | The Food of Morocco
I resolve to dig deeper into Moroccan cooking inspired by Dorie’s chicken and winter squash tagine. Dorie is a five-time James Beard Award winner. Most…