Recipe

Nazeera was at our home in Beyrouth almost every day. She took care of us, in many ways. She was Palestinian. And brought in the Palestinian kitchen. Roumania is one of those dishes. A delicious way of preparing lentils. A way you’ve never tried before, right? But once you’ve made it, you keep making it.

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.