PLANT BASED FOOD AND STORIES
I was affraid of cantaloupes as a child. Not because someone hit me in the head with it but in the nose. Not in the way you might think, but the scent would hit me hard everytime my Grandma cracked this yellow baseball open. So I ran. And my Grandma really loved cantaloupes and I […]
Chickpea, we love you, chickpea! In any assembly, and in Vegan Chickpea Shakshuka, we love you even more! I found this great recipe at my friend Nico’s beautiful blog Yumsome in February and made it many times ever since! Such a simple dish to make but so rich with great ingredients, spices, textures and tastes, I […]
Parsley potatoes, another simple dish from my Mom’s arsenal. Easy to cook, delicious to eat. Saves a lot of time and effort to yearn presentable and very satisfying dish for any table, for any crowd. As a main or a side dish, this one can never go wrong! My mom usually makes parsley potatoes in […]
I haven’t been posting for awhile. Awhile meaning more than a week is long for me. I’ve had things on my mind, my kids have been ill, nothing too heavy, thank heavens, but I tended to it and it kept me away. Then I got ill, nothing heavy too, some strange virus that kept […]
I never cooked with buckwheat before. Yes, I know, I know. But my Grandma didn’t cook it, my mother didn’t cook it, anyone in my family never even mentioned buckwheat so what’s here to wonder about. Except me, because here and there and buckwheat everywhere, and I still kept avoiding it like Green Eggs […]
There was always vegetable soup on the table, at the corner on the wood burning stowe, waiting for Grandad to come from his little carpenter work shed in the backyard, for me, coming from school, for lunch, for dinner, for afternoon hunger strike, leftovers for breakfast. Soup is a medicine, Grandma always used to say. […]
I can’t stop eating rice. I don’t know what has gotten into me but I just can’t stop eating rice for breakfast, for lunch, for everything. Rice, rice, rice. I don’t have many sorts in my pantry so it’s either basmati or arborio, or some no name cheap mushy-when-cooked rice, but rice it is. Mostly […]