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.

Sunday, 28 February 2010

Najmieh Batmanglij's chicken fesenjaan

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It's been a while since my birthday party, but I've promised a my dear friend Zanmei in Iraq to post the recipe for fesenjaan , that...

Ottolenghi's eggplant kuku

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Photo courtesy of my dear friend Malaka at Aloha Mahalo I've been meaning to give kuku , the Iranian filled omlette/frittata, a go for ...

A 40th birthday celebration

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I celebrated my Big 4-0 in February and had the best time cooking up a storm to feed my guests. As often happens given the month, there wer...
Wednesday, 24 February 2010

One-pan Spanish chicken bake

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I am always on the lookout for recipes that don't take too long to make on busy Saturdays when the weekly house clean and grocery shop t...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010

Ottolenghi's harissa-marinated chicken with pink grapefruit salad

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The weather's been pretty miserable in Tokyo this February. Clouds, rain, snow! Dull weather always gives me the blahs, and that sometim...
Thursday, 21 January 2010

Ottolenghi's meatballs baked in tahini

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I've been in a bit of an Ottolenghi kick the last while. The man has a genius for putting the bold and brassy tastes I love together to ...
Friday, 15 January 2010

Chargrilled asparagus, zucchini and semi-dried tomato salad with yogurt cheese

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When I was in Ikea for a bookcase to corral my ever-expanding cookbook collection (I swear that they reproduce all by themselves; it's n...
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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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