This is the ninth Best Of MCW compilation, and while it might initially seem weird that there are technically only four main dishes featured, it will all make sense when you see the appetizers, sides, and desserts.
If I am eating out and there happens to be a buffet (pre-COVID), it was totally normal for me to skip the mains and relish the salad and dessert bars. The components of this (and every Best of MCW compilations) are tried and true recipes made time and again in our household, starting with this 3-ingredient Frozen Berry with Hot White Chocolate Sauce that has a place on the most elegant of dinner tables as it has in the humblest of cozy family dinners.
See also part 1 and part 2, part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 , part 7 , and part 8 of previous Best Of series.
This
Asian crispy chicken salad mirrors Asian flavors through the combination of purple cabbage, carrots, and fresh coriander. Lime, soy sauce, and chili also go in the dressing.
This
multicolor beet salad is the perfect Autumnal salad with all the beetroot, carrot, peas, cabbage, and the amazing potato. The potato is just like chips-fries and it completely makes you forget this is a salad.
This salad, dubbed the
Long Life Salad, is a very popular one on the blog spurring hundreds of views just recently. There's no smoke without a fire, right?
Shrimp cocktail had its basking days in the seventies, but it has remained a classic ever since for a reason. It is easily served as a quick lunch for one as it is as an elegant hors d'oevres for a crowd at a formal gathering.
This
chickpea fetta is a classic, layers of fried pita bread soaked in freshly boiled chickpeas topped with a tahini-yogurt sauce and fried pinenuts make you forget about needing meat to thoroughly enjoy this vegetarian meal.
Green beans in tomato is a dish so wide-spread that many countries consider it their own. Iraq definitely, but also Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus.
I have struggled a fair bit in the bread making department and truly believed my success is limited to a decent loaf of 5 minute artisan bread (a nifty base recipe with endless varieties including amazing stecca, focaccia, and pull apart). This is the recipe that changed my bread making universe. The fact that it's wholewheat makes it all the more tasty.
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moked salmon bagel is what I would order every time without fail at a bagel bar. Thankfully, it is one of the simplest things to recreate at home.
Cupcake or muffin tins have so many uses that people have even written cookbooks on foods made in them! Similar to loaded nachos, this is the mini version with some changes.
If the genes of a beef wellington and a meat loaf were to be crossed, this puffed meat loaf would be the resulting offspring. Individual pockets of seared minced meat patties, sandwiched over sauteed mushroom and topped with creamy spinach, all wrapped in a golden puffed crust. Similar to the meatball kale stew, this coconut shrimp curry is a fast and healthy meal, easy to put together and packed with flavor. Coconut milk brings everything together once again, and the protein of choice is shrimp.
This is a Greek stew of the ladera variety, which is oil-based. Peas are a Spring vegetable, but good quality frozen peas make this recipe accessible all year round.
Chicken tepsi topped with mashed potatoes and using two types of cream for that special taste, and, of course, mushroom.
Classic
banoofi pie. Hits the spot every time, loved by adults and kids alike.
Calissons in French translates to pebbles; these are Provencale calissons using the bounties of the south, namely almonds, apricots, and lemon. A must have.
With a classic variety of kleichas, this is the
sesame version of the same.
My favorite ice cream is coffee flavored, and
this is the best and easiest recipe to make just that.
I know bran and prunes may be associated with old age, but this
bran cake will please young and old alike.
Lemon curd comes in handy with many desserts, and here is a foolproof, no-rust taste, one pot curd.
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