Mediterranean

breakfast/ cheese/ cocktails/ Dorie Greenspan/ Mediterranean/ quick bread

Goat Cheese Black Pepper Quick Bread | Baking with Dorie

It’s the season first when I harvest the fresh crop of mint from my perennial herb patch amid the drizzling misty spring rain. Mint is the…

April 9, 2024

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Dorie Greenspan/ Meat/ Mediterranean/ my favorites/ one-pan/ winter

Braised Lamb Shanks with Carrots and Olives | Everyday Dorie

Last time I made Dorie’s braised lamb shanks for the blog was at the height of the pandemic in April 2020. (See the full recipe here.)…

January 26, 2024

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Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ holidays/ Mediterranean/ pasta/ scalable/ Seafood

Seafood Pasta | Everyday Dorie

The seafood pasta has a similar vibe to the holiday fish soup in the same section of Dorie’s book Everyday Dorie. Just substitute pasta in stead…

December 22, 2023

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African/ foundation recipe/ Mediterranean/ one-pan/ Poultry/ year round

Chicken Tagine with Apricot and Pine Nuts | The Food of Morocco

If I have to pick my absolute favorite one-pan chicken dish, the chicken tagine with apricot and pine nuts gets the price. It has taken me…

August 17, 2023

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Claudia Roden/ Cream/ dessert/ Mediterranean/ summer

Parfait Mocha Praline | Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean

With just five ingredients and a little time, you can make a company worthy dessert. The parfait mocha praline is so easy to do that any…

July 19, 2023

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Appetizer/ Claudia Roden/ Mediterranean/ one-pan/ Roast/ Salad/ summer/ vegetarian

Spicy Roasted Carrot Salad | Claudia Roden

This is part two of the roasted vegetable salads in the traditional slow-cook method from Morocco. Serve the spicy roasted carrot salad along with the roasted…

June 3, 2023

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Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Mediterranean/ Seafood/ summer

Warm Squid Salad | Everyday Dorie

When the outside temperature rises, we go for warm salads for their easy preparations. To make the salads more substantial, we like to add seafood for…

May 26, 2023

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brunch/ Claudia Roden/ foundation recipe/ Mediterranean/ Poultry/ puff pastry

Chicken and Onion “Pies” with Moroccan Flavors | Claudia Roden

I took a cooking lesson with a young Moroccan woman Laila at her home in the medina in Fez. (Laila works as a cook in a…

May 19, 2023

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African/ Claudia Roden/ Fish/ Mediterranean

Fried Fish with Cumin & Tahini Sauce | Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean

Claudia Roden wrote about this fried fish with cumin and Tahini sauce in her cook book. Her inspiration was from a restaurant in Tripoli, Lebanon. Meanwhile,…

April 23, 2023

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brunch/ Claudia Roden/ Mediterranean/ Soup

Yogurt Soup with Orzo and Chickpeas | Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean

Claudia Roden collected this yogurt soup with orzo and chickpeas at a dinner in Istanbul to celebrate the adoption by UNESCO of Gaziantep as a Creative…

April 16, 2023

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Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Mediterranean/ Soup

Hot or Cold Beet Fennel Soup | Everyday Dorie

This beet fennel soup comes with many inherent advantages. Dorie points out [with this soup] you can get a mountain of flavor from a molehill of…

April 14, 2023

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classics/ Claudia Roden/ Mediterranean/ pasta/ Soup

Pumpkin Soup with Orzo and Amaretti | Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean

The pumpkin soup with orzo and amaretti is inspired by the fillings in the pumpkin risotto and tortellini from the Northern Italian city of Mantua. I…

April 9, 2023

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Mediterranean/ mezze (small plates)/ Seafood/ vegetarian

Scallops with Roasted Catalan Sauce | José Andrés

We are welcoming José Andrés as the current featured chef at I Heart Cooking Club whose members will be cooking and blogging his recipes. Very few…

October 4, 2022

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Fish/ Mediterranean/ my favorites/ Roast/ Sauté/ Yotam Ottolenghi

Cod with Sweet and Sour Pepper | Yotam Ottolengi

When I see this recipe in Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem, one other cod dish comes to mind. It’s the cod Basquaise from Eric Ripert. The ingredients are similar,…

April 5, 2022

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Mediterranean/ my favorites/ Paula Wolfert/ Poultry

Chicken Tagine with Prunes & Almonds | The Food of Morocco

  I resolve to dig deeper into Moroccan cooking inspired by Dorie’s chicken and winter squash tagine. Dorie is a five-time James Beard Award winner. Most…

March 16, 2022

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