Feed your family. Feed your soul.
“Don’t worry we can camp out in the backyard” – my famous last words as we watched the final vestiges of our long planned trip to Thailand slip away. With literally nowhere else to go, the prospect of an imminent lockdown staycation was all I …read more
Last week’s recipe found us admiring the colorful spices in a Moroccan souk. This week’s is driven by my love of Middle Eastern food, fueled locally by an international grocery store at the end of a strip mall on the north side of Chicago.
The conical piles of ground spices that fill large silver drums and dried flower petals and berries lining wicker baskets in this Moroccan souk are just a handful of ingredients used in ras el hanout, our spice blend focus this week. In the words of Paula …read more
At the heart of The Good Food Festival and Conference are the exhibitors who come from miles around.
In wrapping up our month of breakfast recipes we turn to comfort food this week. A hot breakfast with eggs evokes a real sense of well being in our house, possibly because it means that we all have time to actually sit and commune.
The spice trade once again plays its part in our recipe selection this week by virtue of the Dutch East India Company being responsible for the majority of spice transportation around the globe in the late 17th Century, bringing goods and slaves from the East Indies (modern …read more
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The first stop on this month’s culinary tour of Africa is Eithopia for no other reason than my intrigue with their National dish: Doro Wat.Â
Last week we wrote about Sara, mom of Owen who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 4 years ago. To kick off this month’s series of diabetes friendly recipes Sara shared a chicken tagine with butternut squash which I served to my own family this weekend.Â
