Hara Pulao/Green Rice or Cilantro Mint Rice and the Giveaway Winner

Hara Pulao/Green Rice or Cilantro Mint Rice and the Giveaway Winner

    I have a quick and easy recipe today. Light, refreshing, intensely aromatic and totally unified with the aura of spring.  

Harissa Marinated Minced Meat Kebab

Harissa Marinated Minced Meat Kebab

    I am riding the Harissa wave again. It happens once in a while in my life when I want to  using this ravishing condiment in about anything I cook.  

Quinoa and Garden Caprese Salad

Quinoa and Garden Caprese Salad

    Texas heat has mellowed down to what I call the best time of the year. The skies are blue. We have had a few good splashes of rain, all of which should have happened in spring and we have now what the pretty 

Naan Pizza with Goat Cheese, Balsamic Roasted Figs & Onion

Naan Pizza with Goat Cheese, Balsamic Roasted Figs & Onion

    I was ecstatic when I found the fresh Brown Turkish Figs.  They come in only for a week and for the past few years I have missed that time and we never saw another fresh fig…  

Roasted Corn and Peanut Chaat/Indian Salad

Roasted Corn and Peanut Chaat/Indian Salad

    There is no sign of rain. The summer is marching on with blue skies, bursts of puffy clouds and the mercury reading in triple digits. On one such afternoon, while I waited in the car for my girl to come out of the