White bread dough with a paste of olive oil and za’atar.
Category: A little effort
Requiring a little more skill, patience, and/or time.
Apple streusel cake
Cauliflower cake
Another recipe from the fabulous cookbook Plenty, this was our dinner yesterday. I love the flavours! And once again, the serving suggestion is to serve it warm. The boyfriend will have none of that.
Lentils, radicchio, and walnuts with (manuka) honey
I am in love with a new cookbook of mine, Plenty more by Yotam Ottolenghi. I made yesterday’s lunch form it, and I felt really cheffy while making it. For me, just the right amount of fiddling with the number of steps, as well as a straightforward recipe.
Apple pie
This is very quickly becoming a classic in our household: Blue ribbon apple pie. So nice, so nice…
Dinner menu for meat-eaters and vegetarians
It has been quite a long week, and some very long weeks are coming up, so I was looking forward to the opportunity to lose myself in cooking. We have guests, so this is a good excuse to make copious amounts of food.
Pear and chocolate tart
Looking at the recipes, the most important criterion is whether the combination of ingredients looks promising enough to produce a tasty dish (another criterion is whether the boyfriend will eat it, but that is a can of worms I will not open at this point).
But very often, and I think for many people, an important criterion is whether the ratio of effort and the tastiness of the resulting dish is favourable. For example, one dish with a very favourable ratio is some variant of “minestrone.” In my rendition, it consists of throwing together some vegetables and perhaps a bit of smoked bacon; add some pasta or potato, finish off with parsley and a drizzle of olive oil… For winter, I cannot think of an easier, yet more satisfying dish to make, and this is why I go back to it over and over again.
Baked pumpkin
Arabic-inspired spread
This is a winner: made on a weeknight for guests, it was delicious and not terribly complicated to make. Alongside the spread, I served warm fluffy pita breads, as I prefer them over the thin flatbreads. We had some white Burgundy to drink, it fit quite nicely.
Chana Dal with Cauliflower, Cashews, and Coconut Milk
I love this curry. I love everything about it. I will be making it again for sure!
I found a recipe while Pinteresting. I was captured by the photo, and only then looked at the ingredients. Well, you can have a look, and compare it to my version above. But I am sure mine was not lacking in flavour!