Smoked Trout & Persian Fetta Rolls
Trout & Persian Fetta Rolls Like smoked trout? Discover more easy recipes using preserved & smoked seafood! The lavash used for these tasty little smoked trout & Persian fetta rolls is flat, rectangular Middle Eastern bread popular for making wraps. It’s also called mountain bread; don’t confuse it with crisp lavosh crackers, which won’t work […]
Smoked Salmon Crostini
Smoked Salmon Crostini Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Traditional Italian cooking class! These smoked salmon crostini are simple, versatile and delicious: top crisp croutons with a creamy, herby spread add a piece of smoked fish and enjoy! I use chives and dill because they’re usually in the herb patch, but you could use […]
Gravlax
Gravlax Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class! ‘Gravad-lax’ means ‘buried salmon’ and refers to the ancient practice of wrapping salted fish in bark and burying it in the cold Scandinavian soil to preserve it through winter. While gravlax is normally prepared using a whole side of salmon, I have made it […]
Roti Telur
Roti Telur Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! The dough for murtabak, one of my favourite Singaporean snacks, is basically the same as roti dough and can be used to make roti telur, delicious egg-filled roti. My friend Simon Goh simply breaks an egg into the centre of his roti dough, […]
Baps (Scottish Morning Rolls)
Baps (Scottish Morning Rolls) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online British cooking class! I have a wonderful memory of being at my Auntie Mary’s house in Glasgow and scurrying down the road early one morning to buy beautifully soft floury baps from the local baker for our breakfast (the scurry was necessary as it […]
Poached Quinces
Poached Quinces Master Kitchen Basics & Explore New Cuisines & Ingredients with My Online Cooking Classes Quinces are a wonderful old-fashioned winter fruit. Unlike their sweet cousins – apples and pears – they’re virtually inedible raw. They come into their own when they’re slow-cooked, turning a beautiful rosy colour. The longer they’re cooked, the deeper […]
Primo Sale Cheese (Ricotta-Style)
Primo Sale Cheese (Ricotta-Style) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Italian cooking class inspired by Giovanni Pilu! Primo sale is a fresh Italian cheese, sometimes aged for a few weeks, sometimes resembling ricotta or cottage cheese. Traditionally it’s made from sheep milk though some versions today use cow milk or a mixture of cow, […]
Eggplant Fatteh (Fatteh Batenjen)
Eggplant Fatteh Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Fatteh comes from the Arabic verb to ‘break up’ or ‘crumble’, which is what’s done to the stale flatbread in this eggplant fatteh recipe. Fatteh is one of those ingenious peasant dishes created to ensure nothing goes to waste and it’s a great […]
Ful Medames
Ful Medames Like Ful Medames? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Ful medames is a creamy Middle Eastern fava bean dip. Served with some fresh warm flatbread, yoghurt or labne, mint, cucumber and olives it’s one of my favourite breakfast dishes, and it’s a great addition to a mezze table too. Ful medames is […]
Za’atar Manouche (Lebanese Flatbreads)
Za’atar Manouche Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Flatbreads called manouche (or manakish, manaqish, man’ousheh and other variations) are a very typical Lebanese breakfast, though I love them as a snack at any time of day. Za’atar (see video below), the ubiquitous Middle Eastern seasoning of dried thyme, is the most […]