Up your salad game this summer with a Cherry Salad with Jalapeno, Lime and Coriander. Bright red cherries, vibrant green jalapeno and coriander add gorgeous colors to this simple yet epic salad, and the splash of lime brightens and binds all the flavors together. I’m warning you, it’s pretty addictive: this summer, I made it…
Julia Child’s Potato Gratin Savoyard
This Julia Child’s Potato Gratin Savoyard is the ultimate scalloped potatoes recipe. It’s from her volume 1 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and is a variation on her amazing Gratin Dauphinois recipe, another one of my favorite that I make every Christmas. Gratin Dauphinois is basically layers of scalloped potato, cream and swiss cheese with a…
Fattoush Salad with Feta
This is the salad I make the most in the summer, I just love it! A Fattoush Salad is a Middle Eastern salad made with juicy tomatoes, crunchy cucumbers, lots of fresh herbs like mint and parsley and topped with pita chips for croutons. But what gives really its distinct flavor is the combination of lemon, pomegranate…
Basil Parmesan Garlic Bread
This Basil Parmesan Garlic Bread recipe is garlic bread with a twist! Fresh basil and parmesan cheese really takes this classic to the next level. Great with any Italian meal like pasta but also with a salad or a soup. I especially like to serve this with my Meatball Tomato Soup with Pasta and Basil to make the ultimate comfort…
Lebanese Vermicelli Rice
This is the rice I always serve with my Shish Taouk Chicken Kebabs, my Easy Oven-Baked Chicken Shawarma and my Fattoush Salad with Feta. When I was young, I was served this type of rice every time we went to our local Lebanese restaurant and I always wondered what those delicious little brown things in it were. I never realized it was simply toasted vermicelli…
Avocado Chickpea Salad with Crumbled Feta
This Avocado Chickpea Salad with Crumbled Feta has been my go-to potluck dish for years. And every time I bring this or serve it to a crowd, it’s always the same thing: someone requests the recipe! But the thing is, I have no recipe! I never even had one! I just adapted the chickpea salad my mom…
Mango Chutney
How I wish you could smell this! The first time I made this Mango Chutney, I knew even before tasting it, just by the way my kitchen smelled that it was a keeper! Chutney is a condiment usually made with fruit, vinegar, spices and sugar cooked to a chunky, spread-able consistency. This recipe is very flavorful with…
Potatoes with Chorizo
Potatoes with chorizo sausage, onions, peppers and white wine? Talk about perfect combinations of flavors. What makes this side dish so delicious and special is that the potatoes take on the smokey paprika flavor from the chorizo and are mixed with a wine-infused caramelized onions and pepper mixture. Yummy! I think you have figured out by now that…
Asparagus with Lemon Caper Sauce
It’s asparagus season! Yay! I looove asparagus and not just because it signals the arrival of Spring. I know these days they’re around pretty much year-round in supermarkets, but nothing beats the freshness and taste of locally-grown asparagus. I especially love the fact that it is considered perfectly good manners to eat asparagus with your fingers, so you have…
Beet Salad with Whipped Goat Cheese
Two years ago my girlfriends and I went to visit a friend in Chicago for a long week-end. Our first night in Chicago was really memorable. Well, first of all, let’s be honest, how often do you get to go on a long week-end with your girlfriends? With NO kids and NO husbands? We were like teenagers again!…
