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Aug 30
2 min

Cheap and Good Monday Night Meatballs With Tahini Sauce

This is a favorite recipe that I'm reposting because I'm missing meals--inside and not takeout--at a Lebanese restaurant we used to frequent. We did go back to the restaurant a couple of months ago--after being fully vaccinated--but with the Delta variant loose, we're back to mostly having meals at home. The Lebanese restaurant has an incredibly good casserole featuring meatballs--kofta--baked with potatoes and tahini sauce. The dish is bit more complex than I like to atte

May 2, 2020
3 min

Beat the Meat Shortage: Try an Easy Lentil Soup Supper

This is a recipe I've posted before, and it's worth running again given the empty meat shelves in our area and, I suspect, around the country. The soup is one I've turned to many times, and it's filling, inexpensive, and incredibly good. Lots of spices--including ginger, coriander, tumeric, cinnamon, and cumin--combine with red lentils to give the soup a deep flavor, and the aroma of the simmering soup will make your mouth water. If you want heat, you can add cayenne pepp

Jul 3, 2019
2 min

Air Fryer French Yogurt Cakes

"Arty the Air Fryer" has been busy again. Today's offering is a variation on a simple French Yogurt Cake. Cooked in the air fryer, the cakes look like giant muffins or cupcakes and have a slightly crispy crust and a moist, silky interior. The cakes are perfect "as is," but are fantastic accompanied by ice cream, fresh fruit, or, one of my favorites, raspberry whip (see below). The batter mixes up quickly and cooks in 20-25 minutes in the air fryer. You'll need two 5 x 2-

Aug 29, 2018
2 min

Too, Too Hot: Make a Tropical Smoothie at Home

Even though the kids are back to school, the temperatures here in the Washington DC area are in the "feels like" 100+ range. So baking is mostly out of the question until the weather cools down. Instead, I've turned to another, better option: something cool, creamy, refreshing, and pretty good for you. Specifically, I've opted for a tropical smoothie that you can make at home rather than buy at the "Tropical Smoothie" store. "Tropical Smoothie" sells their basic smoothi

Aug 6, 2018
2 min

Monday Night Meatballs: Middle Eastern Style

We periodically go to a Lebanese restaurant that has an incredibly good casserole featuring meatballs--kofta--baked with potatoes and tahini sauce. The dish is bit more complex than I wanted to attempt for a weeknight dinner, so, instead, I decided to come up with an easier, faster main dish that incorporated the flavors of the original casserole. I kept the ground beef in the original dish but not the potatoes. Bulgur, which often appears in kofta in parts of the Middle E

Aug 1, 2018
2 min

Want a Flatbread? Bake Sourdough Naan

Below is a piece that ran in the Opinion section of the New York Times on Sunday. I'm attaching the link for anyone who thinks they're too busy to bake sourdough bread. You're not. The piece points out that making sourdough is "intentional," and that the final product, unlike much we do in life, is " tangible, edible and most important, useful." The author also notes that, "bread is real. It nourishes you." Here's the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/su

Jun 18, 2018
2 min

Low Fat Creamy Parmesan Dressing and Vegetable Salad

I've mostly given up on bottled salad dressings except as a last resort. The dressings you can make yourself are significantly better tasting and lack the excessive preservatives, stabilizers, sugar, fat, salt, and other bad things that can wreck your diet and health. The bottled dressings also can be quite expensive and run up your grocery bill fast. Instead of buying the commercial stuff, I'm sold on mixing up quick vinaigrettes--mostly just oil, vinegar, and seasonings.

Jan 24, 2018
2 min

Gluten Free and Different: Carrot Tabouleh Salad

Tired of the same old lettuce and tomato salad? Need something for a group that's inexpensive to make? Try carrot tabouleh salad. It's sweet, tangy, crunchy, and refreshingly different. The salad also is loaded with vitamin A and antioxidants. You don't need to shred the carrots. Instead, using the "S-blade" in a food processor (or maybe a blender?), chop the carrots fine. They should look similar to the coarse bulgur you see in tabouleh. A simple dressing that includ

Sep 26, 2017
3 min

Beyond Chicken Soup: An Easy Lentil Soup Supper

My husband has had a bad cold, and I thought about making him some nice chicken soup today. The problem was, though, that it's been too hot here--close to 90 degrees--to get excited about hot chicken soup, either making it or eating it. Besides, I didn't have any chicken thawed. Nonetheless, I decided my husband did need some soup, albeit not of the chicken variety. Instead I opted for a soup more suited to warmer climates--lentil with lots of spices. Ginger, coriander,

Aug 27, 2017
5 min

Sunday Dinner Time

Sunday evening has always been a struggle for me. I feel the need to create a special family meal while also finishing up weekly chores--like the Saturday laundry that didn't all make it into the washing machine--and getting ready for the work week ahead. So, I've had many a Sunday night meltdown. Fortunately, my husband and son have been patient with me and eaten whatever dinner I've managed to make, albeit sometimes later in the evening than I intended. My husband and s