Homemade All Purpose Spice Mix Recipe- Ideal for Roasting and Grilling
I’ve discovered my new favorite spice mix. I use it on everything. It works well with chicken or fish, or on any roasted or grilled veggies. I first ever made this with cauliflower, but it tasted so great that I decided to try it out on roasted chicken and it was terrific. Since then I’ve […]
Homemade Shawarma Spice Mix Recipe and Creative Ideas How To Use It
I find it amusing when someone credits me for inspiring them to do something, and in turn, what I “inspired them to do” ends up inspiring me to do things I’d never thought of doing before. Take this, for example. Until my friend, Sara, became friends with me, she had never made or served lentils […]
Homemade Zaatar Spice Mix Recipe- Gluten Free
If I had to pick my favorite spice mix, zaatar would probably be high up on the list, if not my favorite. Middle Eastern in origin, this spice mix can be bought at any Middle Eastern grocery store, but if you’re gluten free like I am, you’ll likely need to make it at home, as […]
Homemade Cajun Spice Mix Recipe
I had a bunch of livers and chicken gizzards I’d wanted to cook up for me, and my friend recommended I make Cajun “Dirty Rice” with those. Its an unbelievably awesome recipe, the perfect thing for those livers and gizzards, but I’ll have to share the recipe another time. For now, here’s the recipe for […]
Homemade Baharat Spice Blend Recipe
In the past while, I’ve explored many different cuisines from around the world, and one thing I’ve noticed is that most of them tend to have a mix of spices, often similar spices, that are staples in their cuisine. Chili powder in Tex Mex cooking, garam masala in Indian cooking, hawaij in Yemenite cooking, berbere […]
Homemade Garam Masala Spice Mix Recipe
To say that I love Indian food would be a tremendous understatement, as Indian food is probably my absolute favorite type of cooking, for so many reasons, among them that it is ultra flavorful, generally gluten free, pretty frugal, very versatile, and dare I say it- relatively easy too? You don’t find this combination every […]
Foraging Pink Peppercorns- and the Difference Between Different Types of Pepper
Some people, like my husband, think everything tastes better with ketchup. Other people, like myself, think everything tastes better with salt. My uncle Jay, on the other hand, thinks that there isn’t a single thing in the world that doesn’t taste good with pepper on it. In fact, his motto is “Nothing can ever have […]
Homemade Yemenite Hawaij Spice Mix Recipe
Until very recently, we were having heat waves, and when all my American freinds were busy posting online about their snow falls and autumn festivals, I was thinking to myself “What fall? This is mid-summer weather.” But finally, finally, it looks like the cooler weather season is finally catching up with us. This morning, though, […]
Homemade Chinese Five Spice Powder
I don’t generally buy my spices from the grocery store. I have so many different exotic spices in my cabinet- most of the spices I use I can’t even find in the standard grocery store. On top of that, I find that grocery stores generally overprice spices so much. Where I go spice shopping, its […]
Foraging Sumac- Edible Wild Plant
Having grown up in a climate completely different than the one I live in now, and having only really taken up foraging seriously lately (as in the past year or two), there aren’t many things that I forage now that I foraged growing up. Sumac, though, is one of the exceptions. We used to go […]
