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Every single time I make fruit crumbles I wonder to myself why I am not making them every single day. The answer, of course, is that I would prefer to remain just plump rather than cross over into grotesque obesity. I don't think I'm going out on a limb to guess that a daily breakfast of fruit crumble will rapidly get me there...

Beautiful crumblescape...

Apple crumble:
1/2 cup flour + 1tbsp
1/2 cup oats
1 stick of butter (very cold)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp white sugar (if desired)
1/2 tsp of whatever spices you want (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, ginger)
about 2 cups of fruit (apples, blueberries, plums, apricot, pear etc. etc.)

Pre-heat oven to 350. Generously grease a 9" tart pan. In a large bowl combine your fruit with the extra spoons of flour and sugar, toss to coat.
In a small bowl, fork sift flour, oats, brown sugar & spice. Use a pastry cutter or just a knife and fork to cut-in the butter until your mixture is small pea-size chunks of flour & butter. Work fast so the butter doesn't get too warm. If you have a lot of dry flour that isn't incorporating well, you can add a tbsp of maple syrup or honey to help it along.
Evenly layer your fruit in the tart pan, top with butter & flour mixture. Bake for about 45 minutes, until fruit is bubbly. Serve hot with ice cream or cold for breakfast. Grow fat & happy.

Fruit combinations:
Cortland Apple and Cranberry
Blueberry Plum
Green Apple Raspberry
Pear Raspberry
Oh, I could go on all day... you get the idea.

Martha Stewart's Apple Brown Betty
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World's Healthiest foods 'suspension of disbelief' no butter cobbler
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Yesterday I did set foot in a supermarket. I only purchased eggs (1.69/ 18) so I'm not feeling too bad about it. Our house guest needed some lemons for her morning lemon juice drink and we went by the health food store for melatonin for jet lag.

Today the pickin's are a little slim, but I think we will be ok (eggs make a big difference...)

Breakfast: poached eggs on toast
Lunch: peanut butter & jelly and chopped veg
Snack: Mrs. M-H's brownies and milk
Dinner: asian noodles with leftover sesame chicken

Today, my brother has agreed to be a guest columnist, which I am just so excited about!!!

Ed's Banana Compote-

2 days ago my good friend Scott had about 30lbs. of bananas that were going bad. So what to do when you are offered about 25 bananas that have a shelf life of 48 hours? First I peeled and froze ½ of them, another 5 went into a nice banana bread. This left me with about 7 or 8 bananas. In searching through my collection of cookbooks, I came across this recipe in The Culinary Arts Encyclopedia of Cooking 1987 and made a few changes. The Culinary Arts Encyclopedia of Cooking is a must have in any kitchen. I picked up mine for $2 at Goodwill. Some years are probably better then others, but with over 4,000 recipes, I have some time to get there.

Ingredients:
1 cup water
½ cup sugar
½ cup Apricot Jam
¼ cup unsalted butter
1 teaspoons cinnamon (optional)
6 ripe Bananas (sliced into ¼ inch rounds)

Prepare the Apricot Sauce: Dissolve ½ cup of sugar in 1 cup of water over medium heat. Add ½ cup Apricot Jam and stir until the sauce becomes thick. Go for the consistency of maple syrup, not caramel. When finished, set aside.

Cook the Bananas: In a large skillet, melt ¼ cup unsalted butter on medium heat. Add 1 teaspoons cinnamon if you are a cinnamon lover. Cover the entire bottom of your pan with banana slices. You will not be flipping the bananas so you can really pack them in there. The original recipe says cook until the edges of the banana start to turn brown. The challenge with this is getting the bananas to brown without having the butter start burning. I waited until the bananas turned gold, almost looking super ripe.

Combine: Pour the Apricot Sauce evenly over the top of the bananas. Turn the heat to high. Cook for 5 minuets uncovered and then about 3 minutes covered. The idea is to release enough steam that the sauce and bananas together look thick, and not watery.

Set: Pour the mix into your favorite glass or ceramic bowl

Chill: Place in the fridge, allowing the compote to chill and set. (I waited 24 hours here, but I think you can get away with 6, 4 in a rush

Present: Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream to soften the flavor, garnish with some frozen blueberries and strawberries.

The Cheese Weasel is the nerd Easter bunny who leaves a slice of American cheese under the keyboards of good IT geeks on April 3. I don't know how I got into the habit of calling these Cheese Weasels. I think I just never had a particular name for them and 'cheese buns' don't really give you a sense of the fabulousness awaiting you...

2 1/2 teaspoons regular instant yeast or active dry yeast*
1/2 tsp. honey
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
3 cups Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 tsp powdered ginger
1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon lukewarm water
3/4 cup lukewarm milk
3 tablespoons butter, softened or melted
about 1 cup shredded best-quality cheddar

In a large bowl, combine yeast, honey, salt, and flour. Add the water, milk and butter, and mix until cohesive. Knead the dough on a lightly oiled surface till it's smooth and supple. Its ok if the dough is a bit sticky, your rolls will be more tender with a stickier dough.
Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled bowl, cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and set the dough aside to rise till doubled in bulk, 1 to 2 hours.
Divide the dough into 16 pieces. Shape each piece into a thick disc. Place the cheese in the center of each disc and pinch the dough closed around it.
Lightly grease a 9 x 13-inch baking pan. Space the rolls in the pan (pinched side up), cover them with lightly greased plastic wrap, and allow them to rise for another hour or so, until they are puffy and touching one another.
Bake the rolls in a preheated 350°F oven for 20 minutes, or until they're golden brown. Remove them from the oven, set them on a wire rack to cool, don't eat them right out of the oven, the cheese especially will be too hot and burn the top of your mouth...

We are very lame old people and cannot generally be relied upon to make it to midnight on New Year's Eve. So last night we had a cocktail party, at cocktail hour (4-7, although Dubai cocktail hour is more like 2 - 7...). Here's what we ate...

Corn muffins, with apricots cooked in. Just pop half an apricot into a jiffy corn muffin. If you live in Dubai you have to get Jiffy Corn Muffin mix in the pork section, its got lard. Its easy to make your own corn muffins if you are a veg. or non-swine eater...

Curried Turkey salad on nut bread. Turkey, mayo, sesame oil, soy sauce, cashews, green apple, turmeric and curry powder. Veg version, use crushed up chickpea for turkey.

Deviled eggs with asparagus. These are always good but not as much fun without a pastry bag...

French bread bruscetta, with buffalo mozzarella from Italy, basil from Holland, Syrian olive oil and at least local tomatoes.

Sister-in-law salsa and chips.

An interesting cheese the DH brought from Italy called Bastardo del Grappa along with some salami and a lot of nice Italian wine. (Does big giant international airline realize that their big giant company issued suitcases come back to this country stuffed full of pork and alcohol?- probably, they know all...)

Ok so they are headed this way, pitchforks and torches in hand. The Hon. Nurnberg has pointed out that food can help diffuse this situation- so we shall bake!

Here is a Facebook link to my sister in law's amazing banana bread, if you can't get to it and want it message me and I'll post it here (with her permission...).

And then I think I'll try a chocolate pound cake. I have trouble with these, I made one for Easter that had a very nice flavor, if you could get past the brick-like texture... More than one person pretended they liked it but couldn't hide the fact that they were unable to chew it, which was sort of funny. Maybe I could repeat this and then fling chunks of it off the roof at the angry villagers to repel them?

I might squeeze in a cranberry walnut loaf. I have a freezer full of cranberries...

So I'll go to Dunkin' Donuts (internet distraction- this link takes you to a design-your-own donut widget...) and get a couple of boxes of coffee. Too bad it wont be hot enough to pour down the parapets at them...

After this, the next person who tells me my kids shouldn't be homeschooling 'because of the socialization' is going to get a hard smack in the face, just sayin'.

I think the number one problem with the Tur-duck-hen was treating it like cooking any old turkey. I have a tendency to do that, just sort of figure 'how hard could it possibly be?' and not pay too much attention to the project. So here are some lessons learned, I wont post a picture of the thing, too sad.

Examine and wash each bird the minute you get home from the butcher. I left it until Christmas morning, if I hadn't, I would have realized that holding it together was going to be a problem.
Because it is deboned, the meat is going to be sort of flavorless unless you season it very very well, well beforehand. I simply salted it but I think it should have been dry brined or otherwise coated in herbs and salt.
Know your oven. I used the one in my parents house, which does run hot. Years of the Father cooking at 'incinerate' seem to have broken the thermostat.
If it smells like it is burning, it is. I kept attributing this to random leftover grease in the oven.
Find and use a recipe. We were trolling the internet for information on Christmas morning with the kiddos running around our feet playing with their new toys. NOT conducive to precision.
The stuffing has to be kind of dry, omit it all together. Duck is greasy. Your stuffing will soak up all the duck grease.
Tur-duck-hen is expensive. It cost us about $90 to make a big pot of soup.

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. I did, in spite of the mess.

Mama loves mango... papa loves mango.... that's really supposed to be mambo, but its a theme around here. We've taken to throwing mango into just about everything.

Mango Chicken Salad
1 leftover breast of chicken
12 oz mixed salad greens (mizuna & arugula add a nice peppery flavor)
1 large mango- cut into chunks
cucumber slices
mint
carrot shreds

for the dressing:
3tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp olive oil
1/2 tsp sesame oil
salt
pepper
1 tsp thai chili garlic sauce

Mango milk shake
2 very ripe mangos
1 pint best quality ice cream
1tsp cardamom
Blend- super decadent. For a less caloric version substitute plain yogurt and 2 tsp honey.

- Knead chunks of mango into oatmeal bread dough for a yummy breakfast.
- Freeze mango chunks, blend with iced green tea.
- Mango & pistachio granola

Because of this whole Julia Child thing, I really want to cook. I really want to cook for a lot of appreciative gourmet types. I really want to serve my cooking on china with linen table cloths, excellent wine and sophisticated conversation (truth be told, sophisticated conversation usually leaves me fuming, but I'm working on a vision here...).

The fact of the matter is, however, that I am home in Dubai in a semi-furnished house with three young children who are currently sleeping from four in the afternoon until two in the morning. Our tableware runs the gamut from chipped Ikea plates and Nutella jelly glasses to company-issued flatware which is falling apart... We need to make a few changes in order to bring the dinner party vision to fruition.

In the meantime I'm eating spicy lentil soup in the belief that spicy food will hasten the shedding of Eastern Standard time and get me onto GMT +4...

Curry Lentil Soup
1 carrot
1 large shallot
2 cloves garlic
1 thumb ginger
1 stalk of celery
1 tsp. olive oil
1 cup red (or French) split lentils
4 cups vegetable stock
8oz sliced mushrooms (button, shiitake, crimini etc.)
1 tablespoon yellow curry paste or more to taste.
2 cups cooked brown rice
green onions
coriander

In a large stock pot, saute the vegetables in the olive oil until softened and slightly browned.
Stir in the lentils until well coated with oil
Add the vegetable stock and turn the heat down to a simmer.
When the lentils are soft, add mushrooms and the curry paste.
Simmer until the mushrooms are cooked through.
To serve, mix in 1/4 cup cooked brown rice, top with green onions and fresh coriander, a dollop of plain yogurt or a splash of lemon juice would be nice too.

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Baby Chuck and I just made pumpkin custard.

2 cans pumpkin puree
1 roasted sweet potato
4 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup cream
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup maple syrup or (date syrup if you are in the UAE)
1 tsp cinnamon

1 cup whipping cream
2 tsp sugar
1tsp vanilla extract or (rum if you are in America)

1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup maple syrup or (date syrup if you are in the UAE)

Mix your walnuts and syrup in a small bowl- set aside
Whip the whipping cream with the sugar and vanilla until it holds firm peaks. Refrigerate

In a blender, combine the pumpkin, potato, eggs, milk, cream, sugar, syrup & cinnamon. Pour into well greased 10"x2" baking pan. Bake at 350 for approximately 40 minutes or until top is browned and custard is pulling away from sides. Serve cold with whipped cream and nuts in syrup.

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Lately I've come around to shopping at the Union Co-op rather than Spinney's or Carrefour. I admit it is pathetic that it has taken me this long, but I was kind of intimidated by the Co-op. Depending on who you talk to, membership in the co-op may or may not be available to non-Emiratis. Nobody at the co-op is going out of their way to help you, except the smiling Indian guy who is whamming cans of beans onto your loaves of bread. And all the 'yes-madam'-ing at your fancier ex-pat markets can be kinda seductive.
BUT, and it's a big but, I've come to the conclusion that Union is FAR FAR superior in the freshness and quality of what they are selling AND they clock in about an average of 30% cheaper! What's not to love? For a 30% lower grocery bill and better food, I'll accept some sneering.
Chana masala spices were the clincher for me. I picked some up at Spinneys. I didn't examine the box very carefully. If I had, I would have found that it had been opened and re-glued and was literally crawling with several types of bugs! YUMMY!
Union co-op seems to be moving enough of this kind of stuff that nothing has bugs in it and I get the sense that there would be hell to pay if a supermarket was trying to sell such garbage to local grandma's.
Chana masala is a cooked chickpea dish that I tried a few months ago at an Iftar buffet. Here's my super simple version, quite tasty.

In a medium saucepan cook together 1 tbsp corn oil, 2 small red onions, 2 small tomatoes, 1 clove garlic, 1 thumb of ginger, 1 green chili. Cover and cook on low until reduced to about 1/3 of the volume. Add 1 can of well-drained chickpeas, about 1/4 tsp (to start) indian red chili and chana masala spice, plus salt and pepper. Stir to coat and add 1/4 cup light coconut milk. Cook on low until warmed through and chick peas are beginning to lose their shells. Top with fresh coriander.
Serve over rice or with chapati.

Today we had brunch with some friends at the mOre Cafe in the Gold and Diamond Park off Sh. Zayed Road. Brunch at mOre is a fairly impressive affair. You can order the buffet if you think you might like to take a shot at bursting your stomach or you can order off their extensive menu.

With everything from Nicoise salad to burgers to pancakes, mOre definitely tries to please everyone and generally succeeds with fresh-tasting, simply prepared foods. Their chefs aren't taking any risks but the food is definitely tasty.

If you get the buffet, as my DH did, before you even leave your seat to go check out the buffet table, a plate of eggs Benedict is whisked in front of you with a basket of bread, and a huge fruit plate. This alone is enough to feed about 8 people, but of course you cant do that with it. When you are done, if you can cram in one more bite, there are some delicious cakes, we sampled carrot and zucchini which were both yummy.

I have a cultural thing about buffets, I find them kind of gross but intriguing at the same time... I don't really want to try all these different foods together in the same meal and so, in this way, the mOre mandatory eggs benedict before buffet table makes an odd kind of sense to me.

mOre cafe supports local arts by allowing painters to display their work in the cafe. Something we definitely need here in Dubai.

My only complaints about the cafe are that the acoustics are absolutely awful. Although it was less than half-full, it sounded like nothing so much as an elementary school cafeteria. Our pleasant waiters had a terrible time hearing us and we them, which led to mix-ups over coffee, mustard and missing utensils. It is so noisy in there, that while I'd definitely order food from mOre for catering or delivery, I'd think twice before going back there to eat a meal at peak hours.

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I'm un-wholesomely jealous of all you people from Rhode Island right now because I have a total craving for quahogs. A quahog, for you poor souls who have never had the supreme privilege of eating one, is a large, hard shelled clam. I even feel bad for Italians in Italy who think they have eaten linguini and clams but have only ever had those poor sad little Mediterranean clams. Do not comment that you have the greatest clams in Cornwall or Brittany, I will delete the comment, you do not know what you are talking about. Some ocean quahogs have lived up to 410 years! Not if I can help it...

Here it is, linguini and quahogs. My mother ate this nearly every Friday night of the 40 years of her married life.

1 pint frozen whole quahogs or about 18 quahogs if you are cleaning them yourself.
liquor from the quahogs (this just means the juice...)
1/4 cup olive oil
4 or 5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
zest and juice of 1/2 lemon
fresh parsley
pepper
salt, but it probably wont be necessary.
linguini (about 1/2 lb)

Boil some water. While it is boiling, use a scissor to cut up your quahog into thumb sized bits. Put the olive oil, garlic, quahogs and liquor, lemon zest and juice in a medium sized frying pan, in that order. Do not put the heat on.
When the water boils, add the linguini and then, and only then, turn the heat on (medium) under your clams. Stir occasionally, dont let it come to any kind of rolling boil, but it's ok if it bubbles.
When the linguini is done, clams should be done too, they will be opaque and slightly rubbery (that's ok, part of the deliciousness is to chew them a little...). Put your linguini in a bowl and pour the clams over, season with salt and pepper and use a scissor to cut a generous portion of fresh parsley over the top.

This is a clip from the very bad movie, Federal Hill, which features a shot of a beautiful grapevine my dad grew.

So we kind of failed. Its day six and we were having guests over so we went and got all kinds of things and are down $250. Now, if we dont eat out, and we dont go back next week we will be ok. I have definitely decided, and learned it is possible not to go to the market more than once a week. Although we already have three things on the shopping list.

We have lots of leftover barbecue chicken because our guests were vegetarians, which I forgot.

Barbecue sauce for one chicken. If you are going to grill, it is worth it to ask your butcher to remove the backbone for you. Most of the time, they are happy to do this for no extra charge and it cuts way down on cooking time...

1/4 cup ketchup
1/4 cup molasses
2 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp black pepper
2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp powdered ginger
1 finely chopped shallot

The longer it marinates, the better it will be, baste it as you go.

I woke up at 10p, the kids got up at 11. It is now 3:17a and we are all wide awake, trying to figure out what to do with ourselves while being quiet enough not to wake the man of the house. Not fun.

This evening, we're having some friends over for supper in the hopes that this will motivate us not to sleep all day.

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The menu

French bread toasts with goat cheese & tomato, tuna & capers, and blue cheese & green apple

Pan fried sausages with bakery rolls. I have to try to find some decent non-pork sausages here.

Lentil soup
8 cups chicken stock (making it right now)
2 cups red split lentils, washed
1 large onion
1 head of roasted garlic
1 8oz can chopped tomato & green chili
1 large carrot
2 medium stalks of celery
salt & pepper to taste

Chop onion, garlic, carrot, celery finely. Saute them with the lentils in a large stock pot with about 1 tsp olive oil. When onions begin to brown, add the tomato & chili, the chicken stock and salt and pepper. Simmer for an hour or so.

Spring mix salad with
golden raisins
apples
pear
pumpkin seeds
blue cheese
balsamic vinaigrette

Good bye 2011. Bring on 2012! Happy New Year to all y'all.

We are out of eggs. This is going to be problematic because I wont be able to bake later on in the week when food starts getting scarce. Which I'm guessing it will because we are also out of tortillas, and will be out of coffee...
The DH is already changing up the rules and saying we can go to the supermarket for staples like milk, eggs, coffee etc.

Breakfast: poached eggs on minibagels
Lunch: Mac & cheese with mixed veg, chocolate chip cookie & strawberries for dessert
Snack: Chips and salsa
Dinner: Mustard Tarragon chicken over rice, broccoli rabe and roasted sweet potato

Love the cold appetizers on a hot day, which mercifully, it was for only about an hour...

Deviled eggs
Boil and peel your eggs.
Mix the yolks with equal parts mayo and mustard. Add a splash of vinegar. Season with salt and pepper. Fill your egg halves with mixture. Top with crispy bacon. Top with rolled fillets of anchovy. Top with chopped chives. Everyone (except the bride) loves deviled eggs...

Bean Bruschetta
Two cans of white beans (cannellini). Blend one in a blender with some olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper. Fold the remaining beans into the blended bean mix.
Set aside.
Chop some tomatoes and spread them on a baking sheet. Top with oil, red onion, salt and pepper. Bake until cooked and beginning to carmelize. Set aside.
Slice a baguette thinly. Spread bean mixture on rounds. Top with a fresh basil leaf and a dollop of the tomato jam.

Met an old friend (from 3rd grade) the other night at Uncle Tony's Pizza and Pasta which is definitely a dying breed of old fashioned Italian places in RI. One of the hallmarks of these places is the ability to order a platter of meatballs with a side of fries. Kind of the ultimate Italian working man's dinner. We are well out of balsamic vinegar and extra-virgin olive oil territory here...

If you look at the menu, you can see its not really a place for the newly cheese free, but they were extremely accommodating about not adding it to my food.

We had salad as an appetizer, nice plain fresh garden salad. Iceburg, no arugula. Their wine vinaigrette was quite tasty. Our friends ordered fried cheese. I assume these were good as they didn't have too much pickup on them and they disappeared pretty quickly. I can't say I miss restaurant fried cheese all that much, never really did it for me in the first place. I dont think the bread coating really works. I will miss halloumi and real fried mozzarella, though.

For dinner, I had something unfortunately named a Plumpy, it was a spinach pie, no cheese, no pepperoni. One of our dining companions had the real deal, which looked much more delicious than mine, the DH had chicken parm, comes with a side of spaghetti and was positively dripping with cheese. Our other dining companion had a grilled chicken sandwich, draped with, you guessed it, cheese...

The food is honest, but really rich. I think reviewing restaurants isn't all that interesting anymore, maybe I'll only review vegetarian restaurants from now on...

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Its that time of year again. Spring in New England, everything tastes good. There's so much lovely local fruit and veg around and even Stop & Buy Stuff cant sell it fast enough to keep it off the scratch & dent shelf. I've discussed this before, I'm obsessed with the seconds in the produce department.

Strawberry popsicles:
2lbs of hulled strawberries
1/4 cup light cream
1/4 cup sugar or agave syrup
2 tbs. lime juice
Makes around 40oz (10 4oz pops)
Blend, freeze in molds or paper cups with sticks.

Mango Cream Bars
A little more work here

1lb Very ripe mangoes (currently loving 'champagne' variety)
1/4 cup sugar

1 pint light cream
1/4 cup sugar
tbsp vanilla extract (the natural kind is worth it)

Blend your mangoes and sugar. Fill the pop molds or paper cups 1/2 full of the mixture. Blend the cream, sugar and vanilla and pour on top of the mango when it is frozen.

In a small bowl, fork sift:
2 cups fine whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cardamom
1 cup turbinado sugar

In a large bowl, blend together:
12 tsp. salted butter (not warmed)
1 egg
1/4 cup of unsulphered  molasses

Slowly blend the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Form a cylinder with the dough and wrap it in parchment paper. Refrigerate at least one hour. Slice into 1/4" thick rounds (makes about 40 3" cookies). Decorate with sanding sugar. Bake for 7-10 minutes at 350.

These may actually be the most delicious cookies I have ever made...

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We're being so very clean and healthy around here these days. The kids, of course, wont have any part of it, so I still get to make interesting food for them. Last night the DH and I had grilled salmon, well we would have if the George Foreman grill hadn't melted right in front of our eyes. We had BROILED salmon with this delicious salsa:

We had our good-bye America supper the other night. Suddenly, my boys love mashed potato. They were never very interested in eating it before, but they are now. (Except for baby Chuck who says it 'looks like paste', impeccable logic that one...)
The menu:
A roasted chicken. In keeping with my pesto turkey idea from Thanksgiving, I made a paste of caper, lemon, garlic and olive oil (use a knife or mortar and pestle, don't go electric, capers get bitter) and rubbed this under the skin of the chicken, I also spatchcocked it to cut down on cook time (cut out the backbone- there's a link under ~food blog fun~ to Gwyneth Paltrow showing you how to do this).
Mashed potato. Just steamed them until fork tender and mashed them up with some butter. Ok, a lot! of butter, a bit of milk and some garlic powder. I can't wait to make mashed potato with garlic cream here in Dubai...
Steamed green beans. Topped with a dash of sesame oil, some sesame seeds and a bit of soy sauce.
Salad of AMERICAN golden raisins (which I forgot to pack for Dubai, DARN!), apple chunks, almonds and some maytag blue cheese over romaine. With a vinaigrette.
And APPLE CRUMBLE for dessert.
Now its time for me to be in Dubai and repeat over and over that I will do Yoga every day and eat mostly vegan food and attend mass regularly and be generally sound in mind and body.... until Christmas or until I am completely seduced by siren song of the 4lbs of cured meats, 10 bottles of wine and 3lbs of cheese my DH ported over here from Venice and Milan....

Have you heard this business about Engagement Chicken? I gather if you make it, your boyfriend will propose to you because its so delicious he will want to be your husband so he can eat it forever... Its a lemon chicken, which is always nice, no doubt. But I do think if you are looking for something that might snare a man, you're going to want to put in a little more effort than roast chicken. Well, I guess it depends on the man.
This isn't the easiest recipe to assemble, unless you are in Rome in the spring, but if you can find everything, it will work on really serious, smart (MIT level genius type) men...

1 dozen zucchini flowers (go out and plant some zucchini right now and you can make this by mid-August)
1/2 cup freshest possible ricotta cheese
1/2 cup stale Italian bread (good bread, not supermarket Italian bread)
some chicken stock to wet the bread
a shake or two of garlic powder
black pepper
salt or an anchovy or two
savory
parsley
thyme
other fresh herbs
eggs and flour for dredging

Mix all your ingredients except the flowers in a bowl. Use around two or three tablespoons of herbs. The flowers have a pretty delicate flavor which you don't want to lose to the herbs... Spoon the filling into the flowers. Dredge the flowers in flour seasoned with a bit of pepper. Fry in about 1/4" of oil until coating is browned. Serve immediately with a crisp white wine (Orvieto). Watch smart man become slightly dazzled by you...

Can she do it??

Trying to collect daily menus in advance of my DH going off to Big Giant International Airline Captain Training School (its as terrifying as it sounds- at least Medium-Sized American Airline put them up in a hotel during training). So I will be attempting to be Donna Reed and provide a smiley demeanor, clean laundry, a reasonably well organized household and good food for three months.

Breakfast:
1/2 buckwheat, 1/2 wholewheat pancakes
syrup
milk

Lunch:
Turkey and Goat Cheese with mustard, spinach & tomato

Snack:
Mango banana smoothie

Dinner
Lamb and tomato stew
steamed green beans
Mashed potato

One of the tricky parts of living here is that when you are home, you miss it here and when you are here, you miss it at home.
There are a few Dubai foodstuffs I hate leaving and try to take as much as I can home with me (without arousing the attention of customs at JFK).

1. Hummus from the Eat and Drink Restaurant. They used to have a more obviously terrifying website. You can't bring hummus with you on a plane, looks too much like plastique, I guess. I'll be making my own and craving this one all summer.

2. Garlic sauce. I still don't know, with any precision, WHAT garlic sauce actually is, but without it, roast lamb is boring.

3. Thai curry paste. There are so many different ones available here. Generally delicious and fire-y. The ones they sell at home taste so lame by comparison.

4. Halloumi cheese. Cheese made just for frying. 'Nuff said.

5. Arabic bread. Lately we've been eating a lot of the whole wheat khubz from Modern Bakery. Rustic but soft with a nutty flavor, I think its my favorite kind.
Here's a cool video of how its made.

6. Dates.You can get the regular sunshine brand American dates and all but I will miss the sweet and creamy ones for baking, thicker hulled ones for stuffing, and the snappy chewy ones for eating.

7. Galanga, Curry leaves, Indian Pumpkins, Ash Melons, Molokhia- all the produce wackiness you can get here for no money too!

8.  Yogurt. American yoghurt tastes terrible.

9. Russian Honey Cake. I love this cake. I cant even buy it because I am helpless before it gleaming in the fridge. Ugh. I will literally eat nothing else if we have some in the house.

10. Sri Lankan Food. All kinds. Spicy hot dogs with cactus, curry potato salad, crispy chicken with masala spice.

So the low/ no/ minimal fat, no carbs, no salt, no meat, no dairy, no wheat discussion is in high gear among some of my friends right now.

Because this is at least half a dozen blog posts, I'll kick off the discussion with

Low/ No Fat Diets:
Low Fat- if you Google low fat/ no fat eating, you get a lot of articles about how dangerous this diet can be. But then there's this Doctor from Yale and Case Western, named Caldwell B. Esselstyn (no, really) who advocates a basically no-fat diet for stopping and/ or reversing heart disease. His basic premise is that consumption of any/ all fat is the cause of atherosclerosis. Obviously, meat and dairy fat are considered bigger culprits but the author considers oils like coconut and olive to be equally bad.

The same doctor collaborated with a guy named Gene Stone to edit this book: Forks Over Knives which is not quite so radical, allowing for avocado and some single-pressed oils. There's also a documentary by the same name which is essentially a straightforward denunciation of meat, dairy & the American Food System.

Lastly, one of their partners, a T. Colin Campbell is the author of The China Study an epidemiological study which purports to prove that cancer and heart disease are curable/ completely avoidable if one eats an extremely low fat, vegan diet.  There are so many problems with both study design and data interpretation that I think it's reasonable to say the study has been discredited. These problems are well summarized by the one-star customer reviews of this book on Amazon.

I have no conclusion on low-fat, no-fat other than I'm not generally too impressed by people who are claiming cures for cancer. I tend to think that cancer is just what the human animal dies of given our comparatively long lives... but that's just my simple mind. Tomorrow: Low-carb/ no-carb.

Mango and Papaya are appearing regularly in my new favorite part of Stop & Shop, the scratch & dent produce shelf. I even went so far as to write Stop & Shop a thank you note for keeping usable food out of landfills, putting odd food there with enticing prices to encourage trying new things, and making fresh produce available at knock down prices. So I've got all these ripe mangoes and papaya and what shall I do with them.

1. I'm cutting a bunch into chunks and freezing them for smoothies. Mangoes add yummy sweetness to berry smoothies.

2. Papaya Salsa- papaya, salt, pepper, lime juice, garlic, ginger, spring onion, cilantro. Deliciously summery on grilled fish. If you want it spicy, a bit of jalapeno pepper is good in this too.

3. Bread pudding. I love bread puddings with unexpected fruits like mango, papaya, and blueberry, instead of apple and raisin.

4. I've been messing around with a spread of whipped mango, butter and lemon juice for toast, but something is missing and I'm not sure what...

5.Papaya and avocado make a nice salad over romaine with some vinaigrette dressing.

Here's Rosemary Clooney singing the Mango Song to get you in the mood...

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I'm the most uninspired cook in the world right now. I wanted to make a lovely supper for my family, but we were puttering in what we call a 'garden' (sand pit) and trying to decide what to do with all our dead grass. We thought to ask our neighbors if we could see theirs because its a 'desert' garden and is purported to be quite nice (it is...). They are so organized and design-savvy compared to us... So, by the time we got home with a donated sofa, the name of a house painter, and a renewed sense of purpose to make our bizarre, enormous, concrete bunker-by-the-highway a home, I was too cranky and too tired to prepare anything more taxing than mac 'n cheese.
We had broiled beefsteak- salt, pepper, splash of red wine, herbs de Provence & olive oil.
Mac & Cheese- from a box even, I am pathetic.
Platter of chopped raw veg.
So extremely pathetic.

I did make a decent salad.
Boston lettuce
Goat cheese
Raisins
Pear
Cashew
Balsamic Vinaigrette.

I picture of lettuce- click on it to see the names of each. lame picture for a lame supper for a lame post...

I'm a perverse collector of cheesecakes. Its very bad. I love making them, although I still feel like I am hunting for the holy grail.
I think this is because I don't like Philadelphia cream cheese very much. It just seems too heavy for a cake. BUT it does have an unctuous texture that would be nice to be able to replicate with a slightly lighter cheese.
Ricotta works ok, but tends to be a little mealy in texture. Turkish Labneh is still my favorite.

The current recipe:
1 box Hob-nobs oatmeal cookies
1/2 cup butter
One 1kg container Pinar Labneh.
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup limoncello
juice of a lemon
zest of a lemon, finely chopped
1 cup frozen red currants
1/2 pint of red currants
1/2 pint strawberry
1/2 cup sugar

Process about 1/ 2 the package of Hob-nobs in a food processor until small crumbs. Melt your butter and add it to the cookies. Press mixture into the bottom of a 9" tart or springform pan. In a blender, combine the labneh, eggs, sugar, limoncello, lemon juice and zest. Blend until smooth. Pour into the pan, bake at 150 for about 50 minutes.
You can also try baking it in a waterbath for slightly longer. I've had mixed results with this, sometimes the cake comes out very creamy, others it doesn't seem to matter at all.
For the topping, cook your frozen currants with the sugar until they are pale and and have released all their juices (10 minutes at a simmer should do it). Strain & discard the solids. When cool, fold the syrup with the currants and hulled, chopped strawberries. Top cake. Refrigerate at least a few hours before serving.



This year's Easter cheesecake was a winner, but then I overcooked it. It was tasty, but not quite the masterpiece I am looking for....

 

6 green appples, cored and diced
1/2 cup golden raisins
1/4 cup chopped pecans
2tbsp rum
1tbsp lemon juice

2/3 cup rolled oats
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
1 stick (8tbsp) unsalted butter- cold
1/3 cup caster sugar

Place your apples, raisins and nuts in a 10"X2" baking pan. Sprinkle with rum & lemon juice. In a small bowl, fork sift the oats, flour & sugar. Cut in the butter until you have the consistency of small peas. Cover the apples evenly with the topping. Bake in a 350 degree oven for approximately 45 minutes or until crumble is golden and toasty looking. Serve with vanilla ice-cream.

I've eaten more cheese today than I have probably consumed in all of the last 8 months. I'm a little farty (sorry, TMI) but on balance, I don't really feel bad. Interesting...
I made pumpkin cheesecake. I don't really like pumpkin pie and I wanted something a little swankier than pumpkin bread.

Making cheesecake in the middle east is incredibly easy because of this tasty stuff called Labneh, which is essentially a strained salted yogurt. The Labneh I used is called Pinar and is from Turkey, but you can Google it and make it yourself from whole milk. I have tried other brands, but Pinar seems to be closest in taste to cream cheese but is incredibly light and creamy.

Press a mixture of 1 part crushed digestive biscuits or graham crackers, 1 part butter and generous sprinkling of sugar into the bottom of a springform or ring pan. Adjust quantity to have enough to put about 1/2" layer of crumbs in the pan.
Blend one 8oz can of cooked, pureed pumpkin, 8oz Labneh, about 1/2 cup sugar and three eggs in the blender. If it needs more sweetness, add about 1/4 cup maple syrup. Add whatever spices you like, I used ground ginger.

Pour the cheese/ pumpkin mixture over the crust, and place your pan into another, larger roasting pan. Fill the outside roasting pan with boiling water to around 2" below the top. Place the two pans in a 350 degree oven for around 45 minutes, check with a toothpick. Cake will not be completely cooked through but will continue to cook as it cools.

The texture of the cake is lovely and light with little air bubbles throughout, almost like a mousse. I think the same recipe made with raspberry, rather than pumpkin would be exquisite. Serve topped with caramel sauce or fresh berries.

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It happened again so I have to discuss this again.
Avocado is a very delicate fruit. Please don't mix it with raw white onions, it can't meet onions on the field of battle and retain any flavor of its own. Guacamole made in this way is slimy onion sauce. ick.

To make unbelievably GOOD, Avocado flavored guacamole:
Take an avocado or two - scoop it out into a bowl.
Use a fork to mash it up.
Add salt and pepper and, if you are feeling kind of randy, a bit of garlic powder.
Add the juice of about 1/4 of a lemon.
Mix. Serve. That's it, that's all.
Try it. love it, be converted to this idea and stop the onion-y slime!

Chicken biryani, it's what you have, Indian, Sri Lankan, or Local Arab, when you are having a bunch of folks over.
I've made it only once myself, but I've tried my fair share. I think the key is to make sure you have enough of the sauce so that the rice is not dry, but also to be careful about oil so it isn't greasy either. Here's something akin to the process, step by step... It should serve about 4, although it's a lot of work no matter how many people, so go for a big dinner party.

Take a chicken, cut it up.
Wash it well in warm water and a bit of salt.
Dredge your chicken lightly in flour, some turmeric, black pepper, a bit of curry powder or what have you, and fry just until its crispy on the outside, in oil or ghee. Chicken does not have to be fully cooked at this point, because it will get cooked again. Set chicken pieces aside.

In a different pan cook together, 1/4 cup vegetable oil. 5 small onions, 5 green chilis, 5 red chilis, 2 tomatoes, 4 or 5 cloves of garlic. Now here is where it gets tricky and personal. Everyone seems to have different ideas about what spices go into the biryani. I'd go with ginger, cumin, cardamom and cloves. But some people also use cinnamon, caraway seeds, and bay leaves too. When you have a nice thick spicy onion mixture, add the chicken and cover on low heat until it is cooked through. Finish with a generous amount of fresh coriander and serve over basmati rice. More authentic Biryani calls for par-cooking the rice and letting it finish in the sauce mixture, but I cant taste the difference, perhaps because it is quite spicy.

I'm a hankerin' for tuna fish. Must be low on mercury...
First, I only use this one kind of Tuna: Genova White Tuna in Olive oil. Its a Chicken of the Sea product, who knew?? I just think Tuna in water tastes like the can.
Some delicious ways to make tuna salad:

One can of tuna, one 1/2 cup mayonnaise (yes, you read that right), one tbsp. capers and a generous amount of black pepper. This is more of a spread for a sandwich than a filling. Its delicious on french bread with lots of tomato, spinach and cucumber or served as an appetizer spread on crackers or thin slices of baguette.

One can of tuna- don't drain the oil. Chop- 1 doz. black olives, one small red onion, clove of garlic, two or three roasted red pepper filets, a small tomato, some fresh parsley. Mix veg with the tuna. Add more olive oil and the juice of 1/2 a lemon. This is good scooped into endive leaves as an appetizer too.

One can of tuna, two tablespoons mayonnaise, chop one stick of celery, one small white onion. Mix, add black pepper. Serve on white bread with dill pickles and Lay's potato chips. Heaven...
Or add about 1/4 cup fresh salsa to the above recipe and skip the pickles and chips, if you dont want to be soooo blanco.