429. Chicken Teriyaki

Having a great teriyaki sauce recipe in your pocket sets you down a wonderful culinary path.

428. Vegetable Samosa

A little fried something is always welcome on a dining table.
Samosa, or sambusak, are especially popular among both Arab and Indian communities.

427. Fried Cauliflower and Tarator Salad

Very much like cabbage, cauliflower is a vegetable prone to misrepresentation and has gained the false reputation of being a boring vegetable.

426. Broccoli Cream Soup

Here is a wonderful soup that can be modified in more than one way to suit your taste.

425. Iraqi Chicken with Red Rice

It is the different ways simple and wholesome ingredients are used that really deserve praise for creativity.
If anyone, it is the Iraqi cuisine that does just that.

424. Cherry Mousse Cake

Never would I have imagined that such an elegant and classy dessert could be done simply right in the home kitchen.

423. Roasted Cabbage Wedges

I have seen, on several instances, floating around the web the phenomenon of roasted cabbage wedges or roasted cabbage steaks.

422. Liver Salad

Liver is not for everyone, and that is understandable. But like it or not, it is unreasonable to deny its health-boosting abilities, such as its iron content (hence it is regularly "prescribed" to anaemics).

421. Cauliflower Soup

Despite the relentless summer heat, we still choose to break our Ramadan fast with a soup.
This soup tastes so decadent although it contains no milk nor cream.

420. Iraqi Cabbage Stew

I had never thought of incorporating cabbage in a stew before.

419. Iraqi Date Truffles with Caraway and Fennel Seeds

There is more than one variety of date truffles, and this is the second on this blog after Iraqi Madgooga.

418. Carrot Patties/Fritters

Fortunately or unfortunately, an iftar table in Ramadan is not quite complete without a little fried something.
All the better if that something is mostly composed of vegetable, no?

417. Steak au Poivre

Steak au poivre, or peppered steak, is a famous French dish, and is often readily available at restaurants and hotels. Sure it might not be quite as fantastic as my mothers Steak with Magic Sauce, but it is really delectable.

416. Fresh Mint Ice Cream with Chocolate Stracciatella

This ice cream is infused with fresh mint flavor that is unbelievably pungent and aromatic and puts mint ice cream flavored by mint essence to shame.

415. Salmon Skewers

This is a light, simple, and satiating meal that is both delicious and healthy.

414. Ramadan Nut Stuffed Dates

Ramadan Kareem to one and all. May Allah bring prosperity, happiness, and shower his mercy and peace on all, living and dead, during this Holy Month.

413. Mediterranean Salad

This salad just screams summer and health!

412. Watermelon Crush

This watermelon crush is an amazingly and instantly refreshing drink that will last a fair while and is all-natural.

411. Iraqi Kubba Yachni Tashreeb

This Iraqi tashreeb is substantial enough to be a meal on its own.Some call it a soup, which it would be had there been only kubba. Others call it white tashreeb or stew, but that is usually only with meat, barring the kubba.

410. Iraqi Aubergine Kubba Tepsi

The Iraqi term tepsi simply means casserole. You know, that one pot dish that is baked in the oven and presented in the same dish it was cooked in.

409. Rice Kubba For Boiling or Frying

This is officially the eighth type of kubba on this blog.

408. Iraqi Date Molasses Halawa

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