A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
This BBQ sauce is a play on my usual BBQ sauce recipe. Mainly with the addition of a variety of Mexican chilies. One thing to note is that you may need to play with the amounts of balsamic vinegar and
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Another tasty hit from the cookbook Saffron in the Souks, sumac-spiced lamb pitas are another Lebanese breakfast bread. The other one I’ve made is za’atar man’ouche and both the Hubby and myself liked the meaty version more. Usually, the lamb is
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I had two chicken breasts to use up, so quickly did up some homemade chicken strips and put them in the air fryer. While they were cooking, I whipped together this easy easy recipe for honey mustard dip. If you’re
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When you need something chocolatey and comforting, chocolate chewy meringue cookies are the cookies to make. They are one of my all-time favorite cookies. You get that chew from the meringue, the rich chocolate taste from the cocoa, and they
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Za’atar Man’ouche (Lebanese breakfast pita) is another recipe from the cookbook Saffron in the Souks. It’s ridiculously easy to make and tastes delicious. Another keeper from this cookbook and I can’t sing its praises enough. The za’atar man’ouche recipe in
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My usual go-to for using up old bananas is banana bread or banana muffins, but I wanted to kick it up a notch. I dug up Ina Garten’s banana cake recipe. It turned out wonderfully and I only added some
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I am in love with my new cookbook (Saffron in the Souks) and have been picking out recipes like crazy. My latest selection was the sumac and seven-spice roast chicken. It was very good and I’m positive if I had
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I wanted to make a quick supper tonight, and something that didn’t require a lot of chewing as the Hubby visited the dentist today. So I whipped up a batch of goulash. Note this is American-style goulash, not to be
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I recently picked up a new Lebanese cookbook (Saffron in the Souks) and it had a pistachio ice cream recipe in it. Unfortunately, the recipe included clotted cream, and being lactose intolerant is a no-go. I first looked at other
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I picked up Gennaro’s Pasta Perfecto! cookbook and decided to try my hand at homemade pasta. It turns out that homemade pasta is not that difficult to make! I picked up a cheap pasta roller and set out to make
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