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Brown basmati rice with dates, mint and crispy onion

December 2, 2018December 2, 2018
by Jono

I’m totally in love with the combination of fluffy rice and extra fun goodies, with each bite bringing a new surprise to your palate. This is a wonderful way to make your rice much more exciting for guests, and if you are cooking for yourself, leave out the onions (or buy ready made ones)!

Even so, with everything done separately, this can still be whipped in up 20-30 minutes, and really is lovely – deep frying the onions only takes an extra 5 minutes or so, and does add a special touch.

I’ve kept the recipe basic here, but you can easily go more overboard with some pistachios, some saffron dissolved in hot water sprinkled on top, some cranberries, or basically whatever else you feel like 🙂

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Thick tomato mezze with olives and preserved lemon

November 19, 2018November 27, 2018
by Jono

I really hit a blank naming this thing. This is, in a word, the most damn delicious thick tomato sauce I’ve done, and it’s got no thickeners or starch in it. But what to call it??

This is a fantastic mezze for a Turkish or mediterranean spread, quick and easy to whip up, and pairs perfectly with some chunky bread and olive oil.

With that said though, we discovered this while hunting for a basic tomato pasta sauce, which kinda took it’s own direction with cumin and lemon zest and a few other goodies adding flavour.

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Rose harissa (mild)

February 8, 2018August 5, 2019
by Jono

A mild harissa?? Blasphemy I hear you saying. But trust me on this, once you discover how wonderful and subtle the flavour of harissa really is, without the chilli overpowering everything, you’ll never go back.

This recipe has a hint of rosewater in the background, a very moroccan invention, and is wonderful with almost savoury dish.

This includes the lazy mans version, using canned tomato paste, but if you want to be more authentic then roast a red pepper or 2 in the oven, peel, seed, and use instead of the tomato.

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Brown basmati rice with dates, mint and crispy onion

Thick tomato mezze with olives and preserved lemon

Rose harissa (mild)