Today we started our meal with a fairly common dish: asparagus cream soup. We followed this up with something completely new, however, a polenta dish with an onion and olive sauce. We finished the meal with an asparagus and brown bean salad, which is also a bit of an unusual […]
Do you find yourself having difficulty finding time to prepare lunch? Or maybe you want a nutritious food for the following day for a picnic or a hike? Either way, we’ve got your back! Today we’re bringing you our recipe for vegetable pockets! Ideal as a meal or a finger […]
We have had quite a few readers ask us about arsenic in rice and if it is a problem. Well, the answer is both yes and no! To break it down further, however, we need to take a deeper dive into the topic. Arsenic is one of the most toxic […]
Falafel is a traditional dish from the Middle East that is usually prepared by frying a dense sort of batter made from ground chickpeas, onions, oil, and spices that are rolled into balls. Sometimes other beans or legumes would be used in place of chickpeas. Parsley and cumin are the […]
If you are stuck in quarantine with way too much time on our hands, what better time to bring a new recipe into your kitchen? In our case, it was banana bread! Surely we have all found ourselves in the situation where we have bananas that have ripened too much […]
Sweet potato is a term that is often ambiguously used to refer to a range of tuberous vegetables. Recently when we wrote about Jerusalem artichoke (theory and recipes), some readers asked us if it was the same as sweet potato. It turns out that some people do refer to Jerusalem […]
Some say “pea risotto” and some say “rizi-bizi!” Though such risotto is eaten in many places, this name is often used for it in areas around the Adriatic Sea and in Eastern Europe, for example in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, and Bulgaria. The name rizi-bizi is a derivative of […]
You’ve probably heard a lot about garlic. From fighting off vampires to protecting sailors from magic in The Odyssey, this plant has been wrapped up in folklore for a long time. That’s not all though; garlic was so important in Egypt that it was used as a form of currency. […]
As nature begins to wake up again and plants begin to thrive and grow, we find the best time of the year for collecting wild edible plants! Young shoots are often soft and succulent, with tastes that have not yet matured to bitterness and impressive nutritional content. One famous example […]