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Hamburger and Rice Soup

March 2, 2019 By Laura 2 Comments

Hamburger and Rice Soup

Hamburger and Rice Soup is weeknight food that tastes like weekend food: warming, complex and delicious with a depth of flavor that comes from using homemade beef stock.  People I do not even know where to begin. I mean first there was the low iodine diet, in preparation for the radioactive iodine pill to kill… 

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Filed Under: beef, carrots, ground beef, mushrooms, Red Wine, rice, soup, southwestern, wine, yogurt Tagged With: beef stock, chile powder, Greek yogurt, ground beef, ground meat, homemade beef stock, mushrooms, red wine, rice, soup, southwestern, yogurt

Peach, Pistachio and Lime Breakfast Cake

October 30, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

Peach, Pistachio and Lime Breakfast Cake

Peach, Pistachio and Lime Breakfast Cake is the perfect comfort food breakfast cake, gluten free and nutritious from nuts, yogurt and fresh fruit. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing. I always feel awkward when something horrific happens around the world. As a writer of this blog, I mean. Ignoring… 

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Filed Under: breakfast, cakes, fruit, gluten free, lime, Middle Eastern dishes, peaches, Pistachios, yogurt Tagged With: breakfast, breakfast cake, cake, gluten free, lime, Middle Eastern, peaches, pistachios, polenta, yogurt

Bengali Inspired Summer Kheema (Ground Meat Curry)

August 30, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

Bengali Inspired Summer Kheema (ground meat curry)

Bengali Inspired Summer Kheema (ground meat curry) is a delicious one pot dish that celebrates the bounty of the mid-late summer harvest. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing. People, if it is not one thing it is another lately. The cough is mostly gone, still waiting on the results… 

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Filed Under: beef, corn, curry, ground beef, Indian, Indian recipes, keema/kheema, potatoes, tomatoes, yogurt, zucchini Tagged With: Bengali, caramel, corn, curry, ground beef, Indian, keema, kheema, mustard oil, potatoes, summer harvest, tomatoes, yogurt, zucchini

Indian Black Rice Salad with Peaches and Cucumbers

June 18, 2018 By Laura 1 Comment

Indian Black Rice Salad with Peaches and Cucumbers is a fun and different twist on grain salads, perfect for summer when peaches are at their prime.  Uh… maybe you were expecting a cookie. Somehow we dropped the ball for June 2018 and no Creative Cookie Exchange ended up happening. But hey it is the first… 

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Filed Under: cucumbers, dal, dried fruit, fruit, grain bowl, Indian, lime, peaches, rice, Salad Dressing, salads, vegetarian, whole grains, yogurt Tagged With: black rice, chaat masala, cucumbers, grain bowl, grain salad, Indian, peaches, salads, split peas, sticky black rice, vegetarian, yellow split peas

Middle Eastern Style Street Corn

July 24, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Middle Eastern Twist on Street Corn: Grilled Corn slathered in Lemon Garlic Sauce and sprinkled in Sumac

Middle Eastern Style Street Corn is a delicious twist on Mexican street corn, using yogurt, lemons and sumac in place of mayonnaise, limes and chile powder. If you love the original, I promise you will also love this Middle Eastern version! I actually made this yogurt sauce as a dipping sauce for a Middle Eastern… 

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Filed Under: corn, Middle Eastern dishes, sauces, vegetarian, yogurt Tagged With: condiment, corn, grilled corn, lemon, Middle Eastern, sauce, side dish, street corn, sumac, yogurt

Samosa Smashed Potatoes

January 17, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Samosa Smashed Potatoes

Samosa Smashed Potatoes are the perfect side dish to jazz up a holiday meal or Sunday dinner; they marry the savory deliciousness of a samosa filling with the ease of smashed potatoes! Some of you might remember a post on Spice Crusted Beef Tenderloin from early 2012; that year I “slid a non-conventional holiday meal”… 

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Filed Under: Indian, potato dishes, potatoes, vegetarian, yogurt Tagged With: Indian, mashed potatoes, samosa, samosa smashed potatoes, samosas, side dish, smashed potatoes, vegetarian

Chicken Curry with Cauliflower and Peas

June 6, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

Chicken Curry with Cauliflower and Peas

Chicken Curry with Cauliflower and Peas is a healthy and easy tomato-based curry that is delicious in cold or hot weather. As a food blogger who focuses on international cuisines, especially those of warm locales, I often face a dilemma, which is that here in America we regard much of the cooking of very hot… 

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Filed Under: cauliflower, chicken, curry, Indian recipes, mushrooms, peas, tomatoes, yogurt Tagged With: cauliflower, chicken, curry, Indian, mushrooms, peas, tomatoes

Bengali Shrimp and Cauliflower with Peas

March 30, 2016 By Laura 7 Comments

Bengali Shrimp and Cauliflower with Peas

Bengali Shrimp and Cauliflower with Peas is super fast, easy and delicious–the perfect healthy weeknight dinner. Affiliate links have been used in this post to link to items I am discussing. This dish presented a conundrum for me–to update an old post or create a new one? The photos are a definite improvement over the… 

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Filed Under: cauliflower, curry, easily made vegetarian, Indian recipes, peas, seafood, shrimp, yogurt Tagged With: Bengali, cauliflower, fast, healthy, Indian, panch phoron, seafood, shrimp, weeknight

Parsi Inspired Braised Beef with Dried Cherries

February 14, 2016 By Laura 6 Comments

Parsi Inspired Braised Beef with Dried Cherries, Greens and Mango is a healthy and delicious way to get some comforting Indian food in your belly without having to leave your house and brave the weather! The dried cherries that make this dish so alluring were provided by Stoneridge Orchards, who also sponsored this post.  Guys… 

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Filed Under: beef, beef chuck, curry, Dried Cherries, greens, Indian recipes, kale, lime, mango, slow cooker, yogurt Tagged With: beef, beeh chuck, braise, braising, cilantro, curry, dried cherries, Indian, kale, lime, mango, mangoes, Parsi

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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