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Yucca Bread Recipe (Gluten-Free)
Published on 2011-11-01 15:52:00
There is nothing remotely Moroccan about this yucca bread but I just had to share it with you, dear reader. I like to call it my "Brazilian crush". But I didn’t always know it was Brazilian. I had it once at a bakery and that’s all it took for me to become enamored with its chewy texture and cheese puff taste somewhat reminiscent of gougères. I googled it, looked up every picture I could find of it until I found a match to what I had eaten. One thing led to another and I discovered that it
Tagine Mderbel: Meat and Mashed Eggplants
Published on 2011-10-27 15:35:00
This tagine is mderbel: shabby, sloppy! The eggplants are mashed, incorporated into the sauce and muddled on top of the meat. What a delicious mess. If all messes tasted as good as this, then I’d be a lover of messes, a worshipper of chaos. This is a unique tagine in the sense that the vegetables are not neatly cut and meticulously arranged on or around the meat as they usually are in Moroccan cuisine, but also in terms of flavor. It has something very homey and comforting about it. And I’m
Whole Wheat Pizza with Muhammara Sauce, Goat Cheese and Arugula
Published on 2011-10-24 17:37:00
Muhammara, which means "reddened" in Arabic, is a delightful Syrian dip. Its name comes from its beautiful red color. Its main ingredient is pureed roasted red bell peppers spiked with a few zesty peppers such as chilies or Aleppo and mixed with ground walnuts and bread crumbs. The sauce for this pizza is inspired by muhammara dip minus a few ingredients such as the breadcrumbs. It is delightfully zesty and tastes superb against the goat cheese topping.I'll cut straight to chase and tell you thi
