I recently posted a Fattoush salad recipe using oil-based vinaigrettes, pita chips or sourdough croutons, fresh vegetables and herbs. I also decided to try Christopher Kimball’s recipe with chicken and a Tahini-Sumac dressing which was very different for obvious reasons; the addition of chicken and tahini in the dressing. He always seems to come up … Continue reading
I recently learned that many cookbooks on Mediterranean cuisine have a recipe for Fattoush salad – I didn’t know it was so popular. It is a Levantine salad made from toasted (which I prefer) or fried pieces of Arabic flatbread which includes pita bread. In one of my cookbooks (Dada Eats Love to Cook It: … Continue reading
All I can say is you have to make this sumac-pomegranate flavored recipe while the tomatoes are perfectly ripe (at least here in Michigan). The spiced onions are heavenly and the chicken is tender and goes perfectly in this Palestinian recipe. It is a take on a dish called musakhan, which is chicken seasoned with … Continue reading
This is another very flavorful recipe from Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Tuesday Nights Mediterranean. This is becoming a favorite cookbook partly because the recipes include per Chris: “an enormously diverse group of cultures, from Malta to Turkey, from the Middle East to Morocco. It’s not just Italy, Greece and Spain.” So, there is quite a … Continue reading