Recipes

We kept their design theme while separating kitchenware, sinks and storage. You’re an IKEA customer currently with an outdated, inefficient kitchen and ready to start your new remodel project. You have specific design ideas in mind, but you also know that a DIY approach is way beyond your ability. Also, you keep a kosher kitchen — and that presents further unique design challenges — especially the need to find appropriate storage options. So the question becomes: How do you double the amount of storage in your new layout to keep your kitchenware properly separated, without increasing the square footage —...

Beef Pulao is one dish that is extremely popular in my household, and by popular, I mean three or four times a month! This dish is swimming in delicious aromas full of herbs and spices. It is generally the one dish that is served at weddings, parties, Eid, and any other special occasion within the desi culture. What is Beef Pulao A rice dish baked together with meat Beef Pulao is a rice dish that is baked together with meat. It has an array of herbs and spices such as cardamom, cilantro, onion, garlic, cloves and other ingredients. It can...

Beef + Cauliflower Stove-top Casserole Casseroles are a love language in my family. When the weather is cold, I enjoy placing a hot bubbly delicious homemade casserole on the dinner table for those I love. They’re hearty, satisfying and OH SO cozy. I especially enjoy that this is made using just one pan, right on the stovetop. Makes for easier clean-up and simple prep. I was using up a bunch of things I had already at home when I created this recipe, which is often the case with casseroles (and it turned out SO GOOD) but keep in mind everything...

Chicken schnitzels coated in semolina crumb with a pea salsa, savoury south Indian cakes for dipping in coconut chutney and spicy oil, and irresistible lemony semolina and almond cookiesMany of my favourite comfort foods are connected by one ingredient: semolina. Whether it’s the gnocchi my Italian grandmother made for us or the syrup-drenched cakes, dumplings and couscous of my childhood in Jerusalem, it’s often semolina at work. Its texture is distinct: somehow glutinous and gritty in the likes of those gnocchi, but also light and sandy in cakes and cookies. Semolina, which is halfway between wheat and flour, is also...

The ultimate comfort food! Ah, pepper steak, that good old standby. What? I’ve never shared the recipe with you? Well, forty lashes with uncooked rice! I’d use a wet noodle, but this recipe doesn’t call for any!!!! So, what will you need? Here’s the list: 1.5 lbs lean round steak 2 tsp. granulated onion 1, 12 oz. bag of frozen peppers and onions (You could use fresh if you’d like, but I was putting this together at 8:15 am before I left for work at the shelter. Child #2 put it in the oven for me so that we could...