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.

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Nazuktan: Turkish eggplant appetizer with mint & almonds

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When I was a little girl, we used to sing a little ditty about going round the mulberry bush. I had no idea what a mulberry was, but at l...
Monday, 17 January 2011

Persian cooking class: Shami kebab, jewelled rice, beet salad & quince preserves

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Christmas was fast approaching, so our dear Persian Table cooking class hosts, Reza and Tomoko-san, pulled out all the stops for a culinary ...
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Spicy chicken tagine with apricots, rosemary and ginger

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I love nothing better than pottering about the kitchen on Sunday afternoons cooking up a storm without having to keep one eye on the clock t...
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Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Persian cooking class: Fig salad, mini onions with prawns and tamarind, giant rice meatballs, ferni milk pudding

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The last session of the current series of Persian cooking classes was to be in August, but was postponed until late September, as our dear i...
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Persian cooking class: Kashk-e bademjan, gheliye mahi, chelo and saffron-scented almond brittle

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This month's Persian cooking class was another beauty! The theme was the food of the Persian Gulf ( Khalij-e Fars ). Unlike the food of ...
Friday, 9 July 2010

Shiomomi nasu: Salt-massaged eggplants with Japanese aromotics

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I have been addicted to nasu (Japanese eggplants) this last while. They are everywhere at the moment, and the cooking magazines (which I re...
Thursday, 8 July 2010

Harumi's summer: Rice bowl with stir-fried veggies & teriyaki chicken

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I must not buy cookbooks and foodie magazines, I must not buy cookbooks and foodie magazines, I must not buy... And the reason I must not b...
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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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