We love our salad; dinner just isn’t the same without it! Adding beans to a salad makes it more filling so you can have it by itself for a snack or lunch. This salad is made with chickpeas. Delicious, healthy and easy to make. …
Vegetables
Avocado Hummus
Calling all hummus and avocado lovers! Well, actually, even if you are not a fan of hummus, I think you will like this. My daughter Sara isn’t a big fan of hummus, but even she likes it when made with avocado. …
Spinach Lakror with Parsley and Dill
This lakror is fresh tasting and delicious, not your regular spinach burek, the dill gives it a nice unique flavour and compliments the spinach a lot. …
Garden Chickpea Salad
This is a great way to use up your garden veggies! It is a delicious summertime salad, we love adding beans to our salad, it makes it more healthier and gives it more texture! …
Labne with Tomatoes and Zaatar
Homemade labne is delicious, so much better than store bought and easy to make! You can make it with homemade yogurt or store bought. I do recommend using 5% or 6% milk fat yogurt such as Balkan yogurt, it works best. …
Grandma’s Albanian Cabbage Stew – Mish me Lakra
This is my grandmother’s recipe for mish me lakra, which translates to meat with cabbage. I don’t like big pieces of meat in my stew so I make it with bite size pieces of tender stew meat. You can use beef or lamb, whichever you prefer. We are not big meat eaters, so I don’t add a lot; you may use 1 lb of meat, more or less, though I use less. You can also make this meatless if you wish.
Growing up, this was one of the dishes my grandmother made that I really enjoyed. I am happy to share this with you today!…
Potato Salad with Avocado
Potato salad with avocado is so delicious, creamy and tasty with no mayonnaise. I love this salad, it is a family favourite. …
Turkish Pasta Salad
Turkish pasta salad is delicious, and just a little healthier than your regular pasta salad. It is made with yogurt, which makes it a little tangy which I really enjoy, and lots of veggies. …
Broccoli and Spinach Pizza
This a delicious, different kind of pizza filled with veggies and cheese. They have something similar to this at the Middle Eastern bakery in town. They are called spinach pies or hand pies and in some bakeries, they make them with broccoli. I have a recipe for that on the blog as well. I like to make it like this, it reminds me of lakror Albanian style pizza.
My daughter Dina loves this! I hope you try it out and like as much as we do! …
Lentil Soup
If you a regular reader of my blog you will know that I had gallbladder/stones issues this year, update I did end up having it removed in September. During the time before surgery (5 months) I had to change my diet, and that meant no or little fat, no red meat, no eggs, butter or sugar! Since then I am still on a red meat free diet, I have been trying to reintroduce it to my diet this past two weeks (in very small amounts) but it doesn’t agree with me. Not sure if it’s permanent or temporary….