Posted in What's for Dinner, tagged italian, pasta, Quick, seafood on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IMHO fregola is the tastiest version of couscous. For the dinner tonight the point of departure was couple recipes in Bugialli’s “Foods of Sicily and Sardinia” book.
Took me less than half an hour to come up with a great dish!
Serves 4.
1lb of shrimp, peeled.
1-1.5 cups of fregola cooked al dente.
tiny dice (i pulsed the stuff [...]
Posted in Dim Sum, tagged chicken, eggplant, mediterranean, pasta on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Came up with a new filling: chicken and eggplant.
Two globe eggplants (about 1.5 lb) halved, deeply scored, salted, sprinkled with cumin seeds and brushed with olive oil and roasted on thyme branches in 425F convection oven until sligtly charred and soft. The flesh is scooped out and drained. Don’t discard a skin before trying snacking [...]
Posted in What's for Dinner, tagged Healthy, pasta, Quick, seafood on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fish department at Wegmans does really a great job. Their fresh mussels and squid (not the frozen one – avoid this) are excellent. I used it for some crazy fusion of two recipes – turkish for pilaf and sardinian for fregola paella. Strangely (or maybe not) both recipes have a lot in common so it [...]
Posted in What's for Dinner, tagged Breakfast, Greek, Healthy, pasta, poultry on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greek cuisine has so many interesting dishes involving scallions and dill – my favorite herbs. Like this one i found in one of the books of Aglaia Kremezi. Chicken thighs braised with plenty of scallions and some white wine, braising liquid and scallions pureed and some lemon juice and dill added towards the end. [...]
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