Mashed potatoes usually don’t sit well with me because I’m a fan of big flavors. You can’t just expect me to eat plain mashed potatoes, you know? It has to have some pizazz to it. Here’s a recipe that my aunt always uses that I swear by.
Posts Tagged as ‘Side Dishes’
April 20, 2008
Springtime Means Pasta Salad Time: Cold Penne Salad with Celery, Scallions and Broccoli
I needed a good accompaniment to the turkey pita I was eating, so I decided to make a crisp, verdant salad out of the things that I had sitting in my fridge (that’s how most of my recipes start out, I guess…college life…). I ended up with a seasonally appropriate pasta salad full of green [...]
March 24, 2008
I’m Easy: Tzatziki!
I was eating my roommate Andrew’s tzatziki dip that he bought at Wegman’s (well, I don’t think he knew I was eating his dip…hmm) and I realized that it’s really nothing more than yogurt and a bunch of other household ingredients like garlic and cucumbers, stuff that everyone has lying around their fridge. I’ve adapted [...]
February 15, 2008
What I’m Cooking Tonight: Egyptian Fatta
Fatta is one of my favorite Egyptian foods. My stepmother Hala makes it and it’s seriously, probably the only thing I look forward to when I visit Egypt (just kidding, Daddy!) Fatta is a rice casserole with several different components: there is a layer of beef stock-soaked pita bread cubes at the bottom of the [...]
January 29, 2008
Masa’aa: Egyptian Version of Greek Moussaka
You’ve seen moussaka before — it’s layers of ground beef, eggplant smothered in a tangy garlic tomato sauce and topped with a creamy bechamel sauce, slightly blistered on top from baking.
The Egyptian version is very similar, except there is no bechamel sauce (which is great, because its — pardon my language — a bitch to [...]
January 15, 2008
How the Couscous Salad Really Turned Out
OK, if you’re planning to make the spinach, mushroom and chicken couscous salad from the post below, I recommend not including the chicken (there’s wayyy too much stuff going on) and not putting too much balsamic vinegar because the tomatoes make it slightly acidic. I tried it tonight, and believe me…while it was a wallop [...]
January 14, 2008
Spinach, Mushroom and Chicken Couscous
I haven’t actually made this recipe yet, but it is going to be my dinner tonight. I’ve gotten pretty good at fantasizing a meal all day and then executing it by dinnertime.
I usually make couscous salads as a savory-sweet kind of deal, but I realize that most people don’t like the fruit-and-nuts-with vinaigrette profile, [...]
