The posts feature recipes that we have gathered and created during our travels, including recipes from The Dish and Weekend Eggs posts.
Our best rice recipes make everything from comforting rice porridges to luxuriant fried rice dishes, from Japanese rice bowls and Southeast Asian congees to a classic restaurant-style Chinese special fried rice. We also have fusion East-West rice dishes, such as our fried rice with Southern fried chicken, tonkatsu fried rice, and our bacon and eggs … Read more
My cabbage dumplings recipe makes Russian-Ukrainian vareniki stuffed with a rich filling of braised cabbage, onion, carrot, bacon, and spices. Once cooked they’re garnished with fresh fragrant dill and eaten with sour cream. While you could tuck into a plate on their own, vareniki are usually served as one of an array of dishes shared … Read more
This green minestrone soup recipe makes an easy, versatile, year-round soup that starts out as a light fresh spring soup the first day, but leave it overnight and it evolves into a warming, hearty autumn broth. Vegetables can be substituted according to the season but use frozen peas and beans in autumn and you can … Read more
This Korean spicy noodles recipe makes stir-fried udon noodles with kimchi, bacon and fried eggs. While the Japanese fried udon noodle dish, yaki udon, has a soy based sauce, this Korean-style yaki udon heats things up with kimchi, the spicy Korean chilli paste called gochujang and Korean chilli flakes, gochugaru. We add fried eggs for … Read more
This easy authentic hummus recipe makes a homemade traditional hummus that a Lebanese friend taught me when we lived in Abu Dhabi in the late Nineties. I make this classic hummus recipe whenever we have cravings for Arabic food or are missing the Middle East and always keep cans of chick peas in the pantry … Read more