Hello everybody.
Today we’re invited at my sister-in-law’s house.
Delicious various dishes, cheese rolls, courgettes in yogurt, steaks with gravy, eggs and boiled eggs, makmoura and a big fatoush.
I made small qatayef (عصافيري ) with cream and Nutella and took it with me.
Lovely evening and delicious meal.missing you Didi my dear♥.
Hello everybody.
Kids asked for cauliflower with rice ( مقلوبه زهره ), personally I don’t like cauliflower or let’s say it’s not a favorite of mine, I like it more as a stew. Though it’s a very healthy vegetable full of vitamins and minerals, I only eat it for this reason 🙂
This dish is very easy and can be served with rice or bread with tahini sauce on the side.
Ingredients and method:
* cooked minced meat or cubed veal or lamp as desired.
* boiled and fried cauliflower.
* 2-3 cloves garlic.
* one small onion finely chopped.
* lemon juice.
* salt,pepper,all spice, cumin and dry coriander.
* saute meat till dry then add garlic and onions.
* add cauliflower and seasoning,leave to simmer, you may add a bit of water if it’s too dry.
* serve with tahini sauce and summaq on top.
Enjoy 🙂
very tasty maqloobeh by the way 🙂
Hello everybody.
Today’s dish is French , it means tossed vegetables. We usually do make a similar one but with big lamb meat pieces, late grandmas used to cook it, called (طباخ روحو ) which means “it cooked itself” cause just like Ratatouille vegetables are left on very low heat to simmer and become a well done stew.
Well today kids don’t want anything with meat or chicken, so I made ratatouille plus a big bowl of pasta with yoghurt and some French fries.
Ingredients and method:
*Ratatouille:
* 1 large eggplant cut to cubes.
*2-3 courgettes.cubed.
* 1 chopped onion.
* 2-3 chopped cloves of garlic.
* 1 chopped sweet pepper.
* 2 large chopped tomatoes.
* 1 chilli pepper or chilli powder.
*olive oil.
*saute onions and garlic in oil then add chilli.
* add courgettes then peppers.
* fry eggplants till golden, leave on paper towel till dry then add over mixture
*add tomatoes.
*season with salt and pepper.
*leave to simmer till all homogeneous and little liquid remains.
*Pasta with yoghurt:
* 1 pack penne pasta.
* 1 yoghurt can .
*2-3 garlic.
* 1 spoon dried mints.
* mix yoghurt with crushed garlic, mint, salt.
* cook pasta then saute with some butter or oil.
* just minutes before you serve mix together and heat a bit.
* decorate with pine nuts or almonds.
Enjoy ♡♥♡♥.
Hello again.
I’m sure many of you specially youngsters never heard of this dish. Actually it’s a very very old traditional dish from Irbid (Northern Jordan) our late grandmas used to make it whenever they have a leftover cooked yoghurt (jameed) after a mansaf.
Of course many people still do it nowadays but not like before. I still have some jameed from last lunch gathering so I called a dear auntie who still makes this dish and took the recipe. Thank you auntie Um Rakan, everybody loved it.
Ingredients and method:
* cooked yoghurt or jameed.
* 2 cups cooked brown lentils.
* 2-3 cups plain dough meaning only flour, salt and water. You can add a bit of instant yeast also.
* 2-3 thinly sliced onions.
* boil yoghurt then add lentils.
* devide dough to 4 parts then start rolling it to very thin pieces as wide and thin as you can.
* slice dough to thin stripes and keep adding flour so that they seperate.I used the pasta machine. Easier aa lot.
* add dough stripes to yoghurt mixture slowly and keep stirring so that they won’t clot.
* season with salt and pepper if needed.
* leave to simmer for 20-30 minutes.
* fry onions till brown and krispy to decorate dish in top.
* served hot.
Enjoy ♡♥♡♥
Hello everybody.
Saturday is back!!!!
Grocery and errands, kids wanted spaghetti, of course I didn’t object..easiest thing to do.
Today I made the sauce by using:
*minced meat.
* one can chopped tomatoes.
* 1 spoon tomato paste.
*1 spoon pesto sauce.
* chopped mushrooms.
* Mix meat with all other ingredients add a bit of water then leave to simmer till done.
* add salt, pepper, oregano or paprika according to your taste.
* cook pasta then add olive oil, salt and pepper , mix them all till heated
* serve with sauce abd cheese on top.
I found a bottle of tzatziki herbs in my husband’s picnic basket. Took it to use before it expires.
We usually eat this salad in all Cypriot restaurants, it’s served with traditional meat or fish mezze. It resembles the cucumber and yoghurt salad we make but it’s thick and eaten with bread.
Tzatziki seasoning can be bought ready as the bottle I show you or it can be done easily at home by mixing garlic powder with a bit of salt, oregano and dried mints. Original recipe uses only garlic, salt and vinegar. But adding herbs gives is a great taste.
Ingredients and method:
* 3-4 grated cucumber.
* 2 cups strained yoghurt or thick creamy yoghurt (
لبن بالقشطه او لبن نعاج )
* 1 tsp tzatziki powder.
Or salt, vinegar, crushed garlic, oregano and dried mints.
* Drain and squeeze cucumbers till all water is out.
* add herbs and salt.
* Add yoghurt and mix well.
* drizzle with olive oil.
* Can be garnished with paprika and olives.
Hello again.
Today I have enough food from yesterday . So I have no intention to cook, but I have one avocado that I put inside the rice to ripen. I’d better do it before it becomes black.
You simply mash the avocado add salt, lemon, 1 big spoon yoghurt and 1 spoon tahini.
Mix well then decorate with chopped tomatoes and mint leaves.
Enjoy♡
Hello everybody.
Sometimes you don’t have to go to a fancy restaurant or pay too much money for a fancy meal.
You can make homemade kebab and let it taste like it’s done on a bbq even.
I usually make many side dishes with it.today i’ll make yoghurt dip,roasted tomatoes, hot spicy potatoes.
I learned the yoghurt and tomato recipies from my husband. He usually makes them when going hunting with his friends.easy and quick.convenient for outdoor picnics also.
Yoghurt dip is made by mixing 3 big spoons of yoghurt with 2 big spoons of labaneh.add 1 small spoon of dried mint leaves and oregano.drizzle with olive oil.
As for roasted tomatoes, you roast 3-4 ripe red tomatoes, one hot pepper, 4-5 cloves of garlic sprinkled with salt and oil and folded in foil paper,,all in a hot oven till done.
You peel all, mash them with a fork add salt to taste…that’s it.
For the spicy potatoes.cut them to cubes and soak them in salted water.chop 4 cloves of garlic sautee in a bit if olive oil.
Deep fry the potatoes till crispy.leave on paper towel to remove excess oil then when still hot sprinkle with pepper, paprika, hot pepper and Tabasco if you like them extra spicy.mix well then add over garlic.
Before serving heat the potatoes till extra crispy and sprinkle some freshly chopped coriander (you can put them in the oven a bit also ).
Now to main dish.kebabs are simply kofta meat ( minced lamb meat mixed with onion, parsley, salt, pepper) usually bought ready from butcher. I add to it small spoon of mustard, ketchup, soy sauce and 2 spoons if flour and mix it very well.
Then you mould them over wooden sticks.
Tip: soak the sticks in water so as not to burn in the oven.
Place the sticks in a pan put leave them on the sides not bottom.
Put them in a well heated oven for 30-40 minutes. When all done and crispy heat one quick flaming charcoal till red and put it between the kebabs and close the oven so as they’ll absorb the flames..a trick that’ll give them a bbq taste.
Enjoy♡♥♡♡