Green Beans with Olive Oil – Zeytinyagı Taze Fasulye in Turkish, is a simple and tasty one pot vegetarian dish. You can serve with rice on the side and plain yogurt, or add freshly grated garlic to the yogurt and season with salt; that goes really nice with this dish. …
Meatless Meals
Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Tomato and cucumber salad is one of my favourite salads! Its easy to make, and is good for you! My kids love this with fresh bread just like I did when I was a kid…dipping the bread in the juices is the best part! I like to add feta cheese to it as well sometimes. It makes for a great side dish or on its own for lunch. …
Guacamole
Guacamole is probably the most requested recipe that I get ask for from my friends, been making it for years and shared it on my FB group years ago…for some reason I never made a post about it on the blog. It’s definitely blog worthy, so what took me so long to post it? Oh well, I am posting it now, enjoy!…
Eggplant Burek
This is a really delicious burek, it is full of flavour. You can make it with homemade dough, but I like to make with filo dough, makes life so much simpler! …
Jasmine Rice with Veggies
We love our rice, our favourites are Jasmine and Basmati, you can use either one for this dish. Its super easy to make and goes great with beef or chicken….
Cream of Leek Soup
I love cream of leek soup, my mom and grandma like it chunky, so when I make it I puree half and leave the other half chunky! Makes everyone happy :)…
Homemade Mac and Cheese
I remember walking home for lunch and preparing my lunch everyday from grade 6 till grade 8 and most times it was that same old blue box of mac’ n’ cheese….I honestly couldn’t get enough of it! Two teaspoons of butter and a bit of milk stirring in that powder cheese, oh ya I was all gourmet even then;)
I still could go for a box of that stuff every now and again…but I would much rather have it made with love & wholesome ingredients! …
Dolma – Sarma Stuffed Grape Leaves
Dolma or also known as sarma, stuffed grape leaves are one of the most popular appetizers in the Mediterranean. You can make them with meat or without, I make both, I prefer meatless to be honest. …
Fried Zucchini with Honey
When I was a kid my Aunt Angela would make fried zucchini and my cousins and I would eat it with honey! It tasted great! I still love it with honey! I make it every summer with the zucchini from my garden, reason being is I love the ones that have grown to be really big, it makes nice large circles, you can’t find them in the grocery store! Plus homegrown veggies just taste so much better!…
Swiss Chard Burek
This is my first time using swiss chard, I had planted it in my garden just because I liked the way it looked! I didn’t even know if I would like it! It is something that grows well and looks nice in your garden! I noticed that the leaves were huge and ready for picking so I got my garden crocks on and went in there and cut them! Brought them in and thought…now what? What to make with it was the question of the day!
I rinsed the dirt off and started to chop them up as I would with any other greens. Had some filo dough in the fridge and had all the other ingredients needed so I thought hey why not! Swiss chard burek! I took a bite of it first though to make sure it wasn’t bitter and it wasn’t at all! Its a ‘sweet’ green! In fact this burek had to be the best tasting burek I have ever tried! Next year I will be planting a whole lot more Swiss chard in my garden!…