I love browsing specialty food or grocery stores. There is a Mediterranean one we especially love to frequent. My favorite discoveries so far include labneh, za’atar, sumac, different kinds of flat breads and a variety of flavored syrups. Our favorite is sweet rose syrup. It reminds us of home and the simple days of childhood….
Orange Pound Cake
A delicious pound cake bursting with fresh orange flavors is the perfect way to bring a spot of sunshine to your Holiday table! Note (Dec 1st, 2017): This blog post was originally published for Christmas 2013, which I have now updated with new pictures and a new recipe card. This is one of the most…
Special Occasion Dinner – Indian Style Stuffed Roast Chicken
Let me begin by apologizing to my email subscribers who got an additional post alert on Monday and then couldn’t find said post on the blog. It was a scheduling glitch. My apologies. Please bear with me! Let me make it up to you with a special occasion dinner recipe. I have never roasted a…
Easy Dessert – Cream Cheese Swirled Or Marbled Brownies
I thought I might continue with my Christmas Baking posts series with an utterly delectable and super easy chocolate treat. I first got the idea for cream cheese swirled brownies from the Good Housekeeping Desserts book. Cream cheese and brownies, you say? Yum, right?! Well, it is extremely easy to put together, especially if you…
Holiday Appetizers – Bite Sized Spinach, Turkey & Cheese Mini Phyllo Tarts
While I love everything homemade, I am not above using conveniently frozen or packaged items from time to time. I had a pack of frozen mini tarts like for ever. I finally decided to use them for a quick evening snack. This is a quick recipe that is so easy to put together, I almost…
Cranberry Orange Sauce & How To Dress Up A Gift Jar
I made one – a food gift in a jar, that is! It was for our Thanksgiving hostess this year, put together late at night, and hence all that harsh glare in the pictures. Oops! But – the star here is the cranberry sauce. So let’s get to it. I know Thanksgiving is almost over,…
Delicious Healthier Oatmeal Cookies
Christmas is just two months away. Hold on, I didn’t mean to alarm you…. yet! The stores here have been stocking Christmas stuff ever since the beginning of September. I actually did not intend this to be a Christmas post. I set about making a batch of (healthier) oatmeal cookies and ended up thinking of…
Easy Dessert – Sweet And Chewy Coconut Bars
I had a bag of shredded coconut in the freezer (leftover after decorating my Bunny Cake for Easter). I was looking for ways to use it up and thought of making Indian coconut bars, called barfi in Hindi. Coconut barfi is made with freshly grated coconut and sugar, cooked to a thick consistency that firms up as…
Light Potato Salad With Yogurt Dressing
I love the potato salad from Bill Miller BBQ. I do not have it that often, but I wanted it so bad the other day, I decided to make my own potato salad. I did not want to use mayonnaise or sour cream, but I found many recipes that used plain yogurt as the base for…
