September 8, join me for my Beautiful Boards and Focaccia with Flowers class. It’s free, virtual, open to the public and hosted by the Pinecrest Branch of Miami Dade Public Library. Charcuterie boards have been the rage on Instagram. They’re an artfully arranged assemblage of edibles. As for the charcuterie bit, well, since it refers…
Summer Love — Romance Your Vegetables With Romesco
Join me 6pm ET this Thursday for my free, virtual Tapas Table cooking class, hosted by Miami-Dade Public Library’s Pinecrest Branch. Register here. Summer means grilling season, and if you love grilled vegetables — I do — Romesco sauce is the accessory you need. As a dip, dab, or dollop, this Catalan sauce coaxes out…
Brave, Bold and Beany — Fabada Bravas
Crispy outside, tender inside, and zinged up with a spicy tomato sauce, patatas bravas are the quintessential bar snack of Spain. I’ll teach you how to make them 6 pm Thursday, August 25, in my Tapas Table cooking class. It’s free, virtual and open to the public, hosted by the Pinecrest branch of Miami Dade…
Sprinkle on the Magic Dust
Juicy, refreshing, hydrating, sweet, sticky, sexy — you can’t improve on summer fruit, especially this extra-hot summer. Well, maybe you can. Want a cool treat that’ll take fruit salad to the next level? Honey, let’s chaat. Funky cumin Fiery chile Briny salt Tart amchoor (dried green mango powder) Mix them together, and you have the basic…
Borani Esfanaj, Middle Eastern Spinach and Yogurt
Borani esfanaj — Irani for spinach and yogurt — is a traditional dish enjoyed all over the Mediterranean and the Middle East — Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Greece, Iran, Syria, Turkey, I could keep going. And so can the variations. Regions change up the herbs and the proportions. Some serve it as an appetizer, others as a…
The Carrot, Not the Stick — Moroccan Carrot Salad
I never thought I could get excited about carrot salad. You probably feel the same way. I liked carrot and raisin salad as a kid — especially the raisins, which I sometimes picked out, leaving the carrots behind. But then I tasted carrot salad in Marrakesh, and knew I was tasting greatness. Carrots are sturdy…
Spark Up Your Fourth with Fireworks Black Bean and Mango Salad
Fireworks Black Bean and Mango Salad is so quick and easy, it barely qualifies as a recipe. But it explodes with pizzazz, pairing the sweet summer burst mango (let’s hear it for fresh, seasonal and local — summer means mango season in South Florida) with a zing of chile. Black beans add fiber for fullness,…
Panzanella — Bread, Tomatoes and Summer Romance
Ripe-to-bursting tomatoes meet bread that’s seen better days, and you have a recipe for summer romance. Actually, you have a recipe for panzanella, Italy’s classic bread salad. Across the Middle East, they make a tomato-bread salad using old pita and call it fattoush. In Tunisia, they call it blankit. In fact, traditional cuisines of all…
Gazpacho — What a Cool Idea!
Juicy, ripe tomatoes, cooling cukes, sweet peppers, a kiss of sassy garlic — all the makings of a refreshing salad that’s rainbow-bright for Pride Month. But the Spanish had an even more refreshing idea — whizz all the vegetables together in a blender, and you have a cool no-cook soup made for summer. Hello, gazpacho….
Pantescan Pasta – Summer Holiday In A Bowl
Sweet, juicy tomatoes, salty, sexy olives and capers and fresh green herbs — these flavors of the Mediterranean come together in this easy pasta dish. Pantestcan pasta is one of my summer favorites, and a perfect way to celebrate Mediterranean Diet Month. The Mediterranean Diet is a heritage diet that comprises whole foods like fresh…
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