Recipe

Spinach soup. Savoury because of the spinach, sweet because of the dried apricots, a spicy edge because of the harissa, nice herbs with the coriander and the flat-leaf parsley. A fatal combination. You keep on eating. And the chickpeas make sure you have some delicious to chew on. That’s nice as well.

The smell of cooked cauliflower is synonymous with musty, boring, not tasty, old-fashioned … And I can go on like this for a while. This cauliflower dish will get rid of this image in a wink. Radically. It’s exciting. It’s delicious. It’s different. It’s hearty. Cauliflower deserves that.

If I continue like this I could make a recipe book just with all my Arabic spinach dishes. In the category ‘Arabic’ and ‘spinach’ this is a hit, again. And completely different from the other spinach recipes. Otherwise, it wouldn’t deserve a place here either. It’s spicy, it soft, it can stand on its own two feet. But most of all, it’s really, really good.

Yes, these are the breads I am always raving about. The loaves of my childhood, but now home baked. In many different places on the site I elaborate on my true obsession for these loaves. And after several weeks of trial and error I am now very satisfied with the result. I did make my à la Damaris version with za’atar on the outside and some extra sesame. It’s Delicious with a capital D. It’s Smelling with a capital S. It’s just a feast. And that for someone who actually does not like bread at all …