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…
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…
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!…
Celery Rémoulade
Celery root (or celeriac if you prefer), is NOT the most beautiful vegetable. It’s seriously funny looking, odd-shaped and even kind of hairy…but I just love it! It tastes like a cross between celery and parsley and you can eat it raw or cooked. I remember when I was young, Celery Rémoulade was one of my favorite salads but…
