One of my most vivid memory from my childhood kitchen is the huge number of pots and pans cooking simultaneously on the stove. In a kitchen of nearly 80 square feet, that also had a dining table, in any given moment there were at least 3-4 dishes cooking, and usually one or two were baked in the oven.
"Look what I bought for you” said my better half as she came back from another day of shopping and placed the bag on the table. We moved to the US with bare minimum equipment, and shopping was our main pastime in the first few months. When we packed before moving, we divided most of our stuff between family and friends
Chicken and chickpeas, both of them together or individually are ingredients that I like in almost every form.This was probably why these ingredients were featured in my mother's cookbook. When you grow up in a house with four siblings and two working parents, cooking daily meals to everyone’s taste is almost impossible.
I love to cook almost any kind of food, mediterranean food, moroccan food, french, Iraqi, vietnamese or any other cuisine, as long as it is tasty. But one of my favorites is the one I call “what ever there is in the fridge”
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?”
After the first rain comes, and the wind swirls the fallen leaves and makes it clear that she is here to stay at least until spring, I find myself returning to one of the dishes that always warm my heart, and my belly. Although as a child I did not agree to eat foods that contained more than one ingredient...
Some people call meatballs in tomato sauce kids food. If so, then I am a kid. Meatballs in tomato sauce is one of the dishes I have loved for as long as I can remember. As a matter of fact, there are very few dishes that I still love as I used to. Mom taught me that when making meatballs you must always double the quantity, and even then it might not be enough.