Tag: healthy

Eggplant and Sesame Dip

Eggplant and Sesame Dip

The inspiration of this dish is undoubtedly the Baba Ganouj, the ingredients being pretty much the same. The need to use the eggplant to make an appetizer, along with urge to make something different than the usual hummus or the eggplant dip I always make, 

Chilli and Rosemary Baked Sweet Potato Chips

Chilli and Rosemary Baked Sweet Potato Chips

  The one and only sweet potato grew shoots. Tiny leaves unfurled on healthy red stalks, emerging from one end of the potato and then getting entwined in each other’s arms, offering support and companionship of live. Spring. Obvious even in the dark forgotten corner 

Watermelon Curry: Lightly Spiced Stewed Watermelon

Watermelon Curry: Lightly Spiced Stewed Watermelon

    Summers, for us are sealed and kissed with watermelons. Every week we are hugging and cradling an enormous green back home with promises of sweet juicy times.

Sautéed Chard with Pine Nuts

Sautéed Chard with Pine Nuts

    The light crunch and the nutty but delicate flavor of the toasted pine nuts enhances this simply sauteed chard. Just a little sprinkle of the nuts is all that it needs to tie together the taste of the earthy greens with the hint of smoky cumin and charred pepper. 

Mint Flavored Minced Meat Kebab/Rolls

Mint Flavored Minced Meat Kebab/Rolls

The winter (that never was this year) is officially over I think. We had no snow, not a flake.