Category: Tasty Ethnic Dishes

One thing I often find myself making regularly is hummus. The reason? I eat it on sandwiches at lunch time pretty much every day. Its expensive if you buy it at the store and dead easy to make. So more often than not I make it. Last week I made a variation of it using […]

Made kofta kabobs and grilled veggies for dinner tonight. Only got 3/5 star rating from spouse. He said they’d be better with sauce. Like tzatziki or something, which I found interesting because I gave special care to NOT over cook them so they would be moist. My personal opinion – they were moist enough but not […]

[singlepic id=200 w=320 h=240 float=left] What do you do when your non-Italian varieties of basil take off like crazy? (This picture is post trimming!) Particularly super fragrant Asian varieties? My front herb bed is out of control with basil. This past weekend we go so much rain that it toppled everything over and into the […]

One quick meal that I like to make is a noodle stir fry with shrimp, green beans and noodles. Since I typically have lots of basil and green beans from my garden or the CSA box readily available this is a go to recipe. What I like best about this recipe is that it is […]

This week I got a head of cauliflower in my CSA box. So I decides to make an Indian curry with red lentils and cauliflower. I found a recipe that seemed really good. However, I didn’t want to make the curry paste from scratch. Mostly because today was a really busy day but also because […]

One of my absolute favorite things at Korean restaurants is the spicy cucumber salad. To me there isn’t anything better than this. I suppose it probably goes back to the fact that we always had a plethora of cucumbers in the garden in the summertime. We’d eat them in sandwiches, sliced with vinegar at dinner, […]