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Moroccan Chickpea Salad With Onions and Paprika
I think Moroccan cuisine is fascinating. This may sound a bit strange as it comes from someone who, to her biggest shame, has never tried Moroccan food made by Moroccan natives (I am yet...
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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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Turkish Bulgur Salad
I have to be punished. I disappeared for the longest time again. Consider this a lame excuse, but I have been trying to adjust to my new life with a full time job,...
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Lemony Fish Bughlama with Vegetables and Herbs
In Azerbaijan, bughlama is the general name given to the dishes in which the main ingredient, fish, meat or poultry, simmers with minimal or no liquid added to it, typically along with fresh...
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Napa Cabbage and Tofu Salad
At a recent book luncheon at Melissa’s Produce, I had the pleasure of meeting chef Katie Chin who introduced us to her newly released book Katie Chin’s Everyday Chinese Cookbook. We sampled a...
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Chocolate Pear Cake
Pear season is in full swing in California. Chocolate season is always in full swing in the family. I combined the two and received this very chocolate-ful pear-ful cake that I wished could...
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Napa Cabbage and Tofu Salad
At a recent book luncheon at Melissa’s Produce, I had the pleasure of meeting chef Katie Chin who introduced us to her newly released book Katie Chin’s Everyday Chinese Cookbook. We sampled a...
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Chocolate Pear Cake
Pear season is in full swing in California. Chocolate season is always in full swing in the family. I combined the two and received this very chocolate-ful pear-ful cake that I wished could...
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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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Cheese-Stuffed Hot & Sweet Cherry Peppers
I made these stuffed peppers yesterday for our guests, but forgot to put them on the table during the meal. Then I remembered and I brought them out along with the desserts. Then, as we...
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Roasted Mini Sweet Peppers with Garlic and Thyme
This may sound like a teaser to those of you living in the snowing states, but Los Angeles, my friends, is living an early summer in the winter month of January. It almost sounds...
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Saj-Fried Chicken with Vegetables
“What-fried? Saj-fried?” you may ask. And I will explain. Saj is a nifty kitchen utensil, my friends. And it has a long history. Before the invention of frying pans and a gas stove,...
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Roasted Vegetables Baked in Golden Batter
Come spring and summer, I crave colorful and bright dishes incorporating all sorts of vegetables. This dish is abundant with them, all bursting with color. Here, red peppers, yellow peppers, red onions, zucchini,...
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Rice Stuffed Mini Sweet Peppers
A few years ago, when my in-laws were visiting from Turkey, we were invited to the 4th of July block party organized on our street. We were told that there would be a...
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Tri-Color Bell Pepper Salad
Tri-Color Bell pepper salad is one of my favorite summer salads. It is very simple and refreshing. In this salad, red, yellow and orange bell peppers are first roasted, then mixed with fresh...
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Chicken Salad with Bell Peppers
Dear friends, Thank you so much for all your lovely comments and wishes you left on my previous post! Here I am again. Up and running, but not on my new blog as...
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Stuffed Eggplants, Peppers and Tomatoes
This is probably the most popular dish prepared in Azerbaijan in summer. When vegetables and fruits are in abundance, Azerbaijani women like to stuff them:) They stuff eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, quince...
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Turkish Baklava
Have you ever tried Turkish baklava? If you have, you would agree with me that it is one of the most luscious, delicious baklava varieties out there in the world. Dripping with syrup,...
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How to Cut and De-Seed a Pomegranate (Video)
All photos by Greg Seber Pomegranates are one of the best parts of fall and winter months. Won’t you agree? Love the fruit! Recently, at a private cuisine and culture presentation and lunch...
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Pomegranate with Eggs, or Narnumru (Video)
Photo: Greg Seber This post was originally published on November 3, 2014 and is now updated. I have added a recipe video and tweaked the recipe for best results. ______ Tell me what...
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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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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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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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Pomegranate Bracelet – Soo Edible
I went to a Russian school in Azerbaijan. Or to be more precise, it was a mixed school, with half of the students getting their education in the Russian language, with the other...
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Braised Lamb with Pomegranates and Chestnuts
Nar, nar, more nar! This is what the family has been saying the most ever since nars (pomegranates) hit the Long Beach markets stalls about a month ago. We buy loads of nar....
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Pomegranate Salad
I wrote earlier that my favorite vegetable was eggplant. But I have a favorite fruit, too. Pomegranate! In California, farmers markets, some grocery stores carry this fruit, usually during the pomegranate season, which...
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Walnut-Stuffed Roast Turkey a.k.a Turkey Levengi
The roast turkey in the picture above is what I made for this year’s Thanksgiving table. Stuffed with a delicious walnuts filling. I am sharing this recipe now, post-Thanksgiving because I strongly believe that things...
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Turkish Bulgur Salad
I have to be punished. I disappeared for the longest time again. Consider this a lame excuse, but I have been trying to adjust to my new life with a full time job,...
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Mimosa Salad (Video)
This post was originally published on June 8, 2008 and is now updated. I have added a recipe video and tweaked the recipe for best results. ______ Mimosa Salad is a festive layered...
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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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Creamy Cheesy Mashed Potatoes
My typical simple formula for mashed potatoes is usually: boiled potatoes, butter, and milk—mashed together and that’s it. Recently I’ve been adding another ingredient to it—cheese. It instantly becomes another kind of mashed...
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Savory Potato-Carrot Loaf
The minute my reader Gunel from Azerbaijan sent me this recipe, I was hooked. Savory potato-carrot loaf? Baked in a loaf pan? Really? I mean, I am familiar with potato breads, but this...
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Pirojki (Piroshki) with Potato or Meat
The family just can’t get enough of pirojki or piroshki—hand pies stuffed with delicious savory fillings, including mashed potato, sauteed ground beef, cabbage or green peas. Pirojki are believed to have originated from...
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Classic Lemon Bars
We constantly fight chocolate dessert versus lemon dessert wars at home. Three members of the family against one, where I represent the minority camp. But I am hanging in there, little by little...
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Mexican Wedding Cookies
Lately, we’ve grown quite addicted to Mexican wedding cookies, these little nutty cookies bathed in snowy powdered sugar. In the US, they are commonly known as Mexican wedding cookies. But turns out that...
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Tuiles – Daring Bakers Challenge
I haven’t blogged for quite some time and it feels great to be back in the blogosphere! There is a lot of catching up to do including reading the many delicious posts of...
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Pumpkin Pie (Video)
Time to bake Pumpkin Pie because tis the season! And I have the right recipe for you. This is the result of my yet another obsession to perfect a recipe. A little...
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Perfect Pumpkin Bread (Video)
Looking for the recipe for that Perfect Pumpkin Bread that is moist, not overwhelmingly spiced and has the right flavors? Look no further, because I did the job so you don’t have to...
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Homemade Pumpkin Puree (Video)
This post was originally published on November 12, 2014 and is now updated. I have added a recipe video and tweaked the recipe for best results. ______ It’s that time of year again!...
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Butternut Squash or Pumpkin Preserves
The holidays are over but we still have a pumpkin and a butternut squash sitting on our kitchen counter, waiting for their turn to become something delicious (unless they’ve gone bad already). I...
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Pumpkin-Pecan Rolls with Maple Glaze
The other day I walked into our local TJMaxx store to buy a gift for a friend, and walked out with a gift for that friend and one for myself. Guess what I...
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Swirled Pumpkin-Cream Cheese Cake Bars
We’ve made our pumpkin puree, so we are now ready to use it. Right? Right. Let’s start with luscious, cream cheese—swirled pumpkin bars. Bars, but caky. Super delicious caky. Swirled into the batter...
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Pickled Purslane
What else can one do with purslane besides drenching it in luscious garlicky yogurt sauce for a nice salad? One can pickle it. Delicious. I am personally a fan. Since the times I was a...
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Purslane Salad with Yogurt Dressing
Meet purslane. It is a weed, but a good one. Purslane has succulent fleshy leaves and stems with a slightly acidic flavor, close to that of spinach and watercress. This leafy vegetable offers some...