red chard in my spring garden © linda dalal sawaya 2016 By: Linda Dalal Sawaya/Arab America Contributing Writer Flourishing this week in the garden with our cherished spring rains, having overwintered with ease like Italian parsley, also a biennial—is chard. It’s an amazingly hardy plant that can be harvested now through summer and fall for Mediterranean … Continued
shourbat kibbet heeli © linda dalal sawaya 2016 Shourbat kibbet heeli, an old time variation on lentil soup, begins with mama’s basic lentil soup recipe in Alice’s Kitchen. The potatoes rather than being diced and cooked with the lentils are boiled, peeled, and mashed with minced onions and made into fritter-like dumplings that are dropped into the … Continued
lentil soup ingredients © linda dalal sawaya 2016 BY: Linda Dalal Saway/Contributing Writer Portland days already feel like early spring with sunshine, blustery wind, rain showers, hail, and clouds swiftly passing, opening the sky to the sun once again for a few brief moments. One second the bright sunlight blasts out, and the next it disappears … Continued
the two balilas (on the left, the “disaster” and on the right, the redone version © linda dalal sawaya 2016 Balila is an Arabic word that rolls off the tongue in a musical way. And as music is filled with variation, this Middle Eastern dish is as varied as the region from which it comes. … Continued
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