Friday, 28 March 2008

Fish tagine

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Now here's a recipe almost custom-made for Saffron and Lemons. It is a quick and easy Moroccan-inspired fish stew containing two of my f...
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Thursday, 20 March 2008

A Persian New Year 4: Gulab jamun (Milk doughnuts in saffron and rose-scented syrup

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There is a scene in one of my favourite films, Ae Fond Kiss , where the male lead (a 2nd-generation Glaswegian of Pakistani descent) gives t...
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A Persian New Year 3: Aash-e reshte (Iranian noodle soup with beans, spinach and fresh herbs)

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There is, it seems, some controversy over the role of this filling, fresh-tasting soup in the Persian New Year celebration. On the one hand,...

A Persian New Year 2: Muhammara and a light-as-air white loaf

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When I have a party, I usually try to make something from the culinary repertoire of the homelands of all my guests. This time we were havin...

A Persian New Year 1: Sofre-ye haft sin

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Happy New Year again, again. We celebrate them all here at Saffron an Lemons. December 31, January 1, Chinese New Year, and now the Persian ...
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Nigel's dal and pumpkin soup with chimichurri bread

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It was the start of the YM's spring break, and already he was going stir crazy, so I sent him off to the local public library to get som...
Tuesday, 18 March 2008

Rocket fuel: Ginger cooler (and a brush with fame)

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A couple of weeks ago, an exciting e-mail dropped into my box: Lucy Hawking, co-author of the kids' book George's Secret Key to the ...