Greatist Collaboration: Feta and Lentil Tabbouleh
Today marks the first week of my new collaboration with Greatist, a fun, relatively new to the scene website focusing on all things health and fitness. A few weeks ago a classmate of mine from Andover (who is now the health editor at Greatist) contacted me with the idea of doing a regular guest feature … Read more
Fried Chickpeas with Orange-Mint-Yogurt Sauce
This is the kind of meal I make all the time, when I don’t feel like cooking for more than 15 minutes but I want something hot, hearty, and wholesome. I almost always have all of the ingredients on-hand, so it appears frequently on weeknights when I get home late, days before I go to … Read more
A lemon tree, and learning new things
I have this vision. A vision of myself, in 15 years. In this vision, I live on a small, successful farm that sustains itself through selling beautiful homemade cheeses and jams and artisan breads and hosting intimate gourmet farm-to-table dinners. I wake up early every morning and milk the cows and goats, feed the horses, … Read more
One Word Wonders
I realized that one of the things that is so appealing to me about Middle Eastern and Greek foods is the names. Tabbouleh. Falafel. Mujadarrah. Melomakarona. Tzatziki. Baklava. They’re just these great, exotic words that roll deliciously around your mouth. And, where many contemporary American recipes read something like Mini-Rack of Lamb with Nutty Beluga … Read more
