Moong Dal Moong is Hindi for mung and Dal is Hindi for (in the broadest sense) cooked beans, but as is the case with most Indian dishes, it’s much more than that. Whole dried mung beans, like the type I used in my dal, are small and olive green in color. They’re found throughout Asia andContinue reading
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Potaje de Garbanzos I love this stuff! It’s a potaje, a thick Spanish stew that originated around Madrid but can also be found in various permutations in Cuba and the Canary Islands. Some versions call for sausage (usually chorizo), lentils, spinach, and a variety of vegetables. My version is true to its Spanish origins, and consists of cooked garbanzo beans andContinue reading
An amuse bouche.
“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food." Fields
Tonight, Mujaddara, which translates to “Nails of the Knees”. A traditional breakfast of Middle-Eastern origins intended to steel one for a long day of arduous labor. You’ll find variations of this dish in Lebanon, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Palestine, and Jordan. Peasant food in every good sense of the term, filling, nutritious, and delicious. I make mineContinue reading
I like just about everything that originates in Spain, be it passionate flamenco music, a glass of sublime ruby-hued tempranillo, or dark-eyed chestnut-haired señoritas. And tapas. I could easily live on tapas, accompanied by Spanish wine and Portuguese sherry, for the rest of my life. What a great idea tapas are! You order some rioja, or whatever you’re drinking at the time, andContinue reading
Tagine bil Hummus. In my tagine. Tagine, also spelled tajine, is widely considered to be the national dish of Morocco. Tagine is cooked and served in a vessel called a tagine, which simplifies things considerably. That’s my tagine up there, a simple imported terra cotta reddish-brown version, which contains my version of tagine bil hummus, tagine of chick peas. Tagines are availableContinue reading
An amuse bouche.
“If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one." Lin
Thanksgiving in the Round
When I was a kid, in my pre-vegetarian days, Thanksgiving was our big deal. My family always overdid the gifts at Christmas, my grandmother Gerard giving me everything that I placed my imprimatur on in the old Christmas Triple-Threat toy catalogs. Remember Sears, J C Penney, and Montgomery Ward? I do, vividly. I couldn’t restContinue reading “Thanksgiving in the Round”