Today I got it together enough to finally make my first chirashizushi, “scattered sushi.” While fancy rolls, cones, and boxed molds are prevalent on the restaurant scene, in the home…
Originally posted on miss curry: Caponata, a cooked vegetable dish, is a great example of traditional Sicilian cooking. Known for it’s balance of sweet and salty, this makes an excellent…
Ubiquitous in Southeast Asia, teh tarik is a simple yet extremely popular beverage. Malay for “pulled tea”, it is the drink of choice at many a food stand or kopi…
This brilliant Creole dish hails from Martinique. We added a bit of ginger to smooth out the recipe, as it is quite spicy. It is perhaps more authentic to use…
“Saltfish Run Down” sounds like the name of a song, doesn’t it? Well it is actually a really cool Jamaican style curry, although I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was…
Back to basics: this week we made some homemade sazón and sofrito to get us going on more Caribbean dishes (hello, Puerto Rico!) Sazón- seasoning with salt, pepper, garlic, annato,…
As it is one week into the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, we have chosen to mark the occasion by whipping up a drink using the apricot paste we bought…
Cheers! What’s the occasion, you say? Our first salted lassi, hooray! Pudīnā is the Hindi word for mint, and it refers to a specific type (wild) that grows in Europe,…
Look what we did with our preserved lemons! Although we plan to use them for all sorts of things in the future (we’ll keep you posted!) it was fun whipping…
Have you had a Cuban sandwich? I may as well ask if you have lived, my friends. Supposedly having developed as a lunch staple for workers in cigar factories and…