As I told you before my taste buds have changed and I have a big passion for eggplants. The last recipe was Mosakaa, the one with the tomato sauce. This one is much easier and it is like a salad. For the healthy version of it, you can grill the eggplant but make sure it…
Roasted Chicken…Good for my endless never beginning diet
This recipe is super easy and the good news it is healthy. It is roasted chicken! I use Egyptian marination with little bit of additions to get more flavors. I love roasted chicken, however most of the time it lacks flavors, so I try to make the marination rich and let the chicken swim in…
Chicken cordon bleu…with an Egyptian twist
This is definitely not an Egyptisn dish but somehow it made its way to the Egyptian junk food places in Cairo streets but in complete disguise. A place called moemen in Cairo started its own version of cordon bleu sandwich. Yes, a sandwich! However, it was stuffed with bell peppers, cheese and some unknown grease that…
Egyptian moussaka: When eggplants meet garlic and tomato sauce
It is so strange how one’s taste buds could change over years. I used to hate eggplants when I was way younger. I recall that my mom used to make pickled eggplants with garlic, vinegar, bell peppers and parsley, I would leave the house instantly to escape just the suggestion to try it. Now, I would…
Bolognese pasta…my kids’ favorite
This dish is very easy to put together for the kids only if you prepare the ground beef ahead of time and store it in freezer. That tip helped me a lot to prepare this dish so fast for my kids. I usually get all the ground beef for a month and cook it at…
Fried beef steak: If guilt does not kill me, this dish might!
Bofteek is the Egyptian name for that dish, it is also named sometimes in the fancier places in Egypt as escalope. In USA, you usually see a different version of it in many restaurants like claim jumper, lucille’s and many others. It is usually made with chicken or crumbled beef and covered with gravy. The Egyptian…
Egyptian rice pudding with cinnamon and raisins…Just right!
Rice pudding is a common desert in many countries, and of course each country has its own twist. I love the indian version of the rice pudding but it is quite different from the Egyptian one. The Egyptian rice pudding is thicker (hence heavier and fattier) and it does not have cardamom. Also, the Egyptian…
Egyptian seafood rice
In Egypt, there is a special rice that goes with seafood, it cannot be regular white or basmati rice. It has to have special flavors like onions, garlic and cumin. I have never seen anyone in Egypt eat seafood with white rice, this is how serious it is to eat the right rice. It has…
Baked fish with tomato sauce “sayadieh bi el samak”
Sayadieh el samak is one of my favorite seafood dishes. The first time I tasted it was in Port Said city while visiting some families. It was a very hot casserole coming out of the oven, it looked amazing! I could see the hint of the baked brownish fish under the tomato sauce. Some people bake…
Egyptian seafood: Baked Fish
Egypt location dictates that Fish has to be super good! It is surrounded by a lot of water, Mediterranean sea in the north, red sea in the east, the long beautiful river nile from south to north across Egypt and many lakes as well. So, naturally Fish is very common in Egypt and it is…
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