RECIPE: Sliced Sweet Potatoes Roasted in Date Honey
Looking for a quick, delicious and healthy side dish? Grab some sweet potatoes. There’s lots of cooking going on at this time of year. Passover, Easter, vacation time – guests coming over, family at...
View ArticleKeeping Up With the Food Blogs
Recipes US offers a portal into hundreds of thousands of blogger recipes, many connected to the Middle East. There is no doubt that home cooking is a good thing for our planet. Forget about the...
View ArticleBeit Sitti in Amman: Cook Like a Local Jordanian Grandmother
Kelly learns to cook like a local (vegetarian) Jordanian at Beit Sitti in Amman. For all those tourists in Amman who want to gain authentic Arabic cooking experience to bring back home and impress...
View ArticleTahini is also a Middle Eastern Pasta Sauce
Try something a little different than plain-old tomato sauce on your pasta. Try tahini! On my first night CouchSurfing in Haifa, Israel, in the cozy apartment of a young married couple, the three of us...
View ArticleAre Cooking Coatings Messing With Birthweights and Bodies?
Overexposure by pregnant women to cookware coatings like PFC in microwave popcorn bags may result in underweight newborn babies. Be mindful of the risks when you cook. We wrote a few articles about...
View ArticleExplosive Glass Pyrex Coming to a Kitchen Near You?
My collection of Pyrex baking pans: An explosion waiting to happen? A hot Pyrex type glass baking dish can literally explode if placed on a cool surface like a sink counter top…In an illuminating...
View Article7 Evergreen Books on Sustainable Food for Your New Year
Eating sustainably can make a huge impact on our planet. We all know that eating sustainably, and eating local is good for the planet and good for the economy. Now that your New Year’s resolutions to...
View ArticleWatermelon and Feta Are an Odd Couple
Opposites attract; just ask salted caramel, chocolate-covered pretzels, or kettle corn. These treats are all sweet-and-salty food combinations and here’s a new one to add to summer – just before the...
View ArticleBeirut’s Pascale Habis cooks up a new local Lebanese cookbook
In this day and age, with the superpower of Google, you can locate any recipe, and find infinite recipe ideas, online. So what’s the point of owning a cookbook? Aren’t cookbooks a little outdated? The...
View Article7 Great Eco-Friendly Dates
Ideas for dating in simpler times It’s 2020 and the world is slowly becoming more environmentally conscious. For most of us, it’s about creating better habits in our day-to-day lives with positive,...
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