There are these days when I’m staring at the refrigerator, thinking what to make for dinner. I look at the ingredients and they don’t really go with the chicken breast my better half defrosted in the morning. “What would you like to for dinner?”
Category Archives: Stuffed
Artichoke Hearts Stuffed with Ground Beef
"So you really know how to cook?” asked Jezebel (an invented name) when we sat in the early hours of the morning in a small restaurant in Paris after a long, alcohol-filled night. I vaguely remembered that we spoke about food and cooking in the evening. I guess the alcohol in my blood made me feel at least like Gordon Ramsay because I answered “yes, I’m a great cook” trying to impress Jezebel.
Kubbeh in Squash Soup
There are people that when you tell them that there’s kubbeh soup for dinner, immediately you see a craving look in their eyes, and you can almost hear their stomach rumbling. One of these people is my better half
Stuffed Turkey Breast
Thanksgiving we celebrate with our extended family. It’s not an easy task to explain the relationship between the guests. One of the first times we celebrated together, my younger son took the video camera, went from one guest to another and asked “how are you related to me?”
Fried Kubbeh – Nablusia
There are dishes that I never get tired of eating. One of them is Kubbeh. Whether it is red kubbeh, yellow, sour, kubbeh nia (raw meat kubbeh) or kubbeh nablusia, also known as fried kubbeh. I love them all. With some of them, like the sour kubbeh, it took quite some time for my taste buds to get used to and to like it. But with the fried kubbeh it was love at first bite.
Potatoes Stuffed with Ground Beef
As a kid, I loved potatoes. I could eat potatoes every single day. Schnitzel with mashed potatoes or potatoes cooked with beef or chicken were a gourmet meal for me. On days that mom cooked one of these dishes, I turned from a kid who ate nothing to one that finished everything on his plate only to ask for more.
Zucchini Boats filled with Ground Fish in White Wine and Lemon Sauce
"I’ll make the first course” I told mom when she called to ask if we are coming to Rosh HaShanah dinner. “Really? “ she asked, “you don’t have to”. “I know i don’t have to” I replied, “I want to”. “Well, if you really want to, that’s ok, but you’ll have to make it here, in our place”.