Vegetarian stories, recipes and ideas

Middle-Eastern

Armenian Eggplant Salad

This healthy, light, and easy recipe is from Nancy Mehagian's culinary memoir Siren's Feast, An Edible Odyssey This dish was a favourite at her restaurant on...

Chickpea Salad

This is a middle eastern chickpea salad It had a lot of pepper which makes the salad Red onions add color and make it beautiful to look at

Fragrant Orange Curry

From The Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas, first edition 1972 This book was a real find It says, This is a fascinating way to start a dinner, or even to end...

Iranian Sugar Pickled Garlic

Serve as an accompaniment, add to wraps and salads, add to a cheese platter or antipasto platter I have made a few changes, basically combining several diffe...

Lentils and Spinach

This is a very tasty dhal I got from my sister-in-law who got it from one of her cookbooks, I don't know which one I'll update later when I get the name

Lubya Bi-Zayt Lebanese Green Beans

An appetizer served at a Phoenician restaurant in Syracuse The beans should be nice and soft when finished Flat Italian type beans are good this way, too, bu...

Rahat Al-Holqum

If your a fan of the old musical Kismet from the the 50's like me then you'll be familiar with the name Rahat Lokum In Kismet it was touted to have great sed...

Simply Spiced String/ Green Beans

A very simple recipe, yet a bit different from your regular string bean side dish You can serve this warm or chilled, I always serve it chilled as a salad

Toasted Israeli Couscous Salad with Grilled Summer Vegetables

A very impressive recipe You can alter the veggies to whatever you have on hand

Turkish-Ish Salad

From wwwgourmetgr I played around a bit with this oneUse regular couscous if you cannot find Israeli couscous Use a good quality olive oil