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Blueberry-Oatmeal Crunch Bars
Year 2002. We are in Los Angeles, just moved here, newly married. One day our family friend Jim Porter walks into our apartment holding a plate with something looking absolutely delicious. Jim made...
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Healthy Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Anyone here with New Year’s resolution to eat healthier and be fitter? I am raising my hand. You are welcome to join the club. You see, those happy holidays beginning from Thanksgiving and...
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Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
In the beginning, long time ago, I didn’t bake oatmeal cookies. They came in from our favorite store, Costco. Murat was the only one who ate them. Kids found them too “cinnamony.” I...
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Olive-Walnut Mini Breads
I love these cute olive-walnut mini breads. They are rich, I won’t lie. I hate to lament my muffin tops after I bake these tasty treats in huge batches, oftentimes back to back,...
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Olive-Walnut-Pomegranate Medley (Zeytun Perverde)
The recipe for zeytun perverde, a delectable Persian appetizer made of green olives, walnuts, and pomegranate arils, comes from my dear friend Nahid’s mom, aunt Khedije, an exceptional cook of both Azerbaijani and...
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Crunchy Vegetable Salad with Marinated Mushrooms (Video)
This post was originally published on September 2, 2009 and I am updating it today with the video recipe from my new YoutTube Channel – AZCookbook with Feride. Please SUBSCRIBE to it and...
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Herbed Potato and Pomegranate Salad
My first blog post of the year. Can’t believe it’s 2015! Hope it started well for all of you, guys. We celebrated the arrival of the New Year with lots of delicious food,...
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Flattened Spiced-Herbed Chicken
I spotted this recipe a while ago on this livejournal with plans to use it one day. The lucky day was yesterday. The recipe comes from Stalik, a celebrated gourmand who spreads his...
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Sautéed Mushrooms and Onions
How do you usually sauté mushrooms? Toss them in the pan with oil or butter and cook, right? Not in this recipe for Sautéed Mushrooms and Onions. In this interesting twist to the...
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Walnut and Onion Breads
To me, the most cherished recipes are ones that take me back to my childhood and keep alive the sweet memories of special events or family traditions, and, most importantly, of people associated...
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Baked Fish Stuffed with Walnuts (Balig Levengi)
This is my first recipe in the Fish category. And I started with the king of Azerbaijani fish recipes – baked fish stuffed with walnuts. On joyful occasions such as the celebration of...
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French Citrus Cake
I spotted this recipe in a cookbook during our recent trip to the local library. Shamelessly disregarding a myriad of wonderful French recipes offered with the author’s own twist, my eyes fell on...
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Apricot-Orange Preserves
We have a big apricot tree in our backyard. It fact, it is the only tree we have there. And we had high hopes for it when we had just moved into our...
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Roast Duck with Pomegranate-Honey-Orange Glaze
I’d had my eyes on Martha Stewart’s roasted duck recipe for the longest time and finally had a chance to make it this Sunday. It turned out great and looking exactly as it...
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Zesty Fiesta Chocolate Fridge Cake
When my friend Marysol of Memories In the Baking commented on my Cheese and Yogurt Cake with Lemon Zest quoting David Lebovitz : “there are two kinds of people in this world, the...