Saffron and Lemons

An epicurean Aladdin's cave, this blog is an eclectic mix of food from the Middle East, Africa and other destinations of an adventurous homecook with incurable culinary wanderlust.

Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Japanese spinach with sesame dressing

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As my adventures at Japanese cooking school continue, it is becoming apparent that I am not coming through on the second half of the bargai...
Thursday, 6 November 2008

Foodie weekend: Pumpkin pie

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For too many years now, I've been promising to make my "traditional" Halloween pumpkin pie but not quite getting round to it. ...
Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Foodie weekend: Cooking class 6: Borscht, priozhki and classic chocola

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For my cooking class this month I didn't take the Japanese class, but the Russian one. Russian food has been on my radar for over a year...
Friday, 17 October 2008

Cooking class 5: Tempura with bean & chestnut rice and tart octopus salad with Japanese egg "mayonnaise"

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Tempura, deep-fried seafood and vegetable morsels served with a soy-based dipping sauce, is such a quintessentially Japanese dish it is easy...
Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Slatit batata helwa: Claudia's Moroccan sweet potato salad

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Sweet potatoes are a funny vegetable. They pop up in many countries, and each has its own way with them. In Australia, sweet potatoes often ...
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Claudia's Moroccan lamb tagine with peas and preserved lemons

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Autumn is here and we've not had a lemon recipe for a while! Funny how one's thoughts turn to lemons as soon as the skies get moody....
Monday, 29 September 2008

Harira: An Algerian take on the Ramadan-fast-breaking soup

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I find foods with cultural significance irresistible. And feast time foods especially so. In the 10 months I've had this blog I've w...
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Saffron
Yokohama, Japan
Sometime in the late 1990s, a friend visiting from Australia brought me a jar of preserved lemons. I'd never heard of them, so they stared out dolefully from the fridge for a year until a desperate Net search for what to do with the things opened the gateway to a world of cooking. That is how exotic scents of the world began to emanate from one shoebox-sized kitchen in downtown Yokohama. These blogs are for N who brought me salty lemons, for G who thinks I should write a cookbook instead of reading them, and for Zanmei, who suggested blogging to begin with.
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