You won't find any food coloring here; it's all from nature. With four other cinnamon rolls recipes on the blog, it is safe to assume we like them here at the MCW household. This blueberry-stuffed and blueberry-frosted version certainly does not disappoint.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Sunday, October 26, 2025
1927. Filipino Mechado Beef Stew
This is a typical Dutch oven stew that starts on the stove and is finished in the oven, but with a Filipino touch.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
1926. Comte Cheese Crackers
Snacking is a multi-cultural, and a multi-billion dollar industry. While store-bought goodies are often designed to make you addicted to the product, I can safely say that this homemade savory cheese cracker is among the best I've tasted and is just as addictive (without any of the chemical and synthetic nasties).
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
1925. Butternut Squash Tortellini Sausage Soup
You know how some salads are a meal in and of themselves? Like a steak salad complete with fried chevre and croutons? Definitely a meal and not a side.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
1924. Vanilla Honey Sable Cookies
Sable cookies are a form of shortbread biscuit, a treat baked with butter, sugar, and flour as the main components, without any leavening agent.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
1923. Croque Monsieur
Europe is blessed with beautiful nature and wonderful weather, but the mentality is so frugal and economical. As a result, they have a knack for making a big deal out of the most simple and ordinary things.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
1922. Chinese Ground Beef Broccoli
Two recipes ago, we had a 30-minutes, one pan Mexican dish. Today, it's almost the same but with a Chinese flair. This is a one pan Chinese beef broccoli.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
1921. FMF Mini Muffins
FMF is the acronym for freshly milled flour. Because of the processing conventional white flour goes through, I cannot in clear conscience claim that FMF recipes will work in exactly the same way with mass produced flour.
Friday, October 10, 2025
1920. Mexican Skillet Casserole
This was a hearty one-pan meal that the entire family enjoyed. All elements are there: meat, rice, vegetables, all very well seasoned.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
1919. Hot sauce
While online grocery shopping the other day, I accidentally ended up with a bagful of green chili. The recipe I had gotten it for required only two chilies, so I decided to process the rest into a tobasco alternative of homemade hot sauce.
Monday, October 6, 2025
1918. Date Molasses Chickpea Oat Cookies
My sister bought a small packet of delicious but overpriced cookies, which had the list of ingredients clearly printed on the packet. This led me to trying my hand at replicating it, using experience as educated guesses as to the measurements and method.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
1917. Qalya Mosul
Sunday, September 28, 2025
1916. Khabbaz and Bread
There is this herb or delicate green in the Arabian countries that is a finer relative to spring onion green and leeks. It's definitely from the onion family, and when I search for the English translation for it, "khabbaz" translates to leek, which it definitely is not.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
1915. Grapefruit Frappe
This iced drink was on repeat off of summer. The grapefruit lends a delicate floral sweet-bitter taste that is so pleasant with the accentuated jasmine iced tea.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
1914. Blueberry Chia Yogurt Pudding
I make my own yogurt weekly using two litres of milk. I then strain it to get 1 kilogram of greek yogurt, and about a litre of whey. To make this blueberry chia yogurt pudding, I thin it out a bit using the whey.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
1913. Iraqi Firwar Bread
This Iraqi bread gives strong Iraq iroog bread vibes but with a twist. Instead of the meat being mixed in the dough before baking, the meat is enclosed in the dough and flattened into a sort of hand pie.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
1912. Raw Date Cinnamon Roll
I'm the kind who heel-pivots 180 degrees at the mention of trendy diet food, but sometimes I am intrigued. This recipe for raw date cinnamon rolls is apparently sold in an expensive New York cafe and was supposed to taste exactly like a glazed cinnamon roll.
Monday, September 15, 2025
1911. Individual Iroog Mosul
Sunday, September 14, 2025
1910. Artichokes with Hollandaise Sauce
We used to have artichokes quite often in my childhood. It's quite sad how much recent generations are missing out on.
Thursday, September 11, 2025
1909. Rice Aubergine Casserole
Where there is courgette, aubergine is not far behind. It was a matter of course to try out the rice courgette casserole in aubergine format.
Monday, September 8, 2025
1908. Digestive Lemon Bars
Taking a shortcut by making these lemon bars from digestive biscuits, they quickly come together for a minimum effort flavorful treat.
Sunday, August 31, 2025
1907. Rice Courgette Casserole
The all-in-one marketing of this dish is admittedly a bit deceptive, as you will need two pots to prepare it in addition to the oven dish, so set your expectations.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
1906. Peach Upsidedown Cheesecake
The funny thing about trends is that they fall into three categories: must-try, must-avoid, and a very dangerous why-not. This silly upside down cheesecake trend was a let's-try-it-once, and once is all I'm going to do.
Monday, August 25, 2025
Sunday, August 17, 2025
1904. Lemon Feta Shrimp Orzo
This is a quick and flavorful meal that is inspired by Greek flavors and delivers a wholesome nutritional profile. Done from start to finish in under 20 minutes, the same dressing that the pasta is coated in is used to flavor the shrimp.
Thursday, August 14, 2025
1903. Baked Apricot Kofta
Monday, August 11, 2025
1902. Pistachio Tiramisu
Nothing beats a classic, but sometimes change is fun and also welcome. This pistachio tiramisu gets its flavor from pistachio cream, and does not overwhelm the flavor of coffee.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
1901. FMF Hotdog Buns
I'm in my freshly milled flour (FMF) era, and am enjoying the journey of discovery and experimentation immensely. These 40-minute hot dog buns are fluffy and soft, and so so flavorful.
Monday, August 4, 2025
1900. Iraqi Kubba Jareesh in Loomi Broth
Years ago I mentioned a tale of a thousand kubbas. While still not yet near one thousand, the MCW kubba repertoire is constantly expanding.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
1898. Haloomi Arayees
These haloomi arayees are as simple and delicious as could be. Switching from Lebanese flatbread to Egyptian bran flatbread really has made all the difference for me.
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
1896. Cornflakes Chocolate Cake
This is a simple cake, soaked in chocolate milk, and covered in a chocolate ganache with cornflakes in it.
Monday, July 21, 2025
1895. SD Flatbread
I do have favorite sourdough breads I make routinely, but the odd experiment that satisfyingly works out from the get-go is always welcome. Queue: these fresh milled flour, pan cooked, bran-coated flatbreads.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Monday, July 14, 2025
1893. Rice Stuffed Chicken Legs
I don't think that anything roasted necessarily falls under the category of a quick meal, but if you prep this chicken in advance, you can pop it in the oven when you get home, and an hour later you've got an easy, nutritious, and delicious meal ready.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
1892. Pistachio Mascarpone Dates
One of these decadent and delightful mascarpone-stuffed, pistachio spread-coated dates is enough to satisfy any sweet tooth.
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
1891. Simple Chicken Cream Pasta
The other day I had six hungry people to feed and I wanted a quick and simple yet delicious pasta. I did a quick search online but nothing was simple enough to make with the basic ingredients I had, so I improvised.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
1890. SD Discard Cheese Mint Galette
The week after I made the SD zaatar galette, I still didn't need to restock my sourdough freezer stash, so I made another galette, this time cheese with dry mint and olives. A properly heated pan even without the toxic teflon coating become naturally nonstick, so do not skim on pre-heating time.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
1889. SD Discard Zaatar Galette
There is a gradual shift in my kitchen that's been in the making for years now, and the transformation is not yet complete. Slowly yet surely, I am replacing teflon pots and pans with stainless steel and cast iron; commercial yeast with sourdough; store-bought and shelf-stable flour with freshly milled wheat; among some other micro-changes.
Monday, June 30, 2025
1888. Sour Lebna Balls
I was lucky to get my hands on a no-nonsense natural yogurt starter from a Turkish expat who got it from her mom. I have been making yogurt and straining it into greek-style yogurt weekly for months now. It was just a matter of time before experimenting with degrees of sourness and making these lebna balls.
Monday, June 23, 2025
1887. Savory Zaatar Cake
Wonderful Levant flavors are combined in this savory cake that can be sliced and served with lashings of lebne in place of frosting. Fresh zaatar leaves, olives, cheese, and nigella seeds are only some of the flavor notes.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
1886. Purslane Fateer
A couple of weeks ago I had a hanker for lemony, tangy, fresh spinach fateer made from scratch right at home. I checked four or five different sores, online and in person, and none had fresh spinach. In the last one, I found two bundles of purslane, or bakle, so fate was sealed.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
1885. Cypriot Basturma and Haloomi Pitas
Sunday, June 15, 2025
1884. Brisket Rashers
America has glorified the consumption of bacon for breakfast. It is a coveted favorite in any hollywood movie. Everyone glazes over the fact that they come from a pig, which is one of the worst things a person can eat, and is absolutely saturated in nitrates and other cancer-causing preservatives. Cue these one-ingredient beef brisket rashers.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
1883. Café Style French Toast
Using just a few key ingredients, this café worthy french toast is a hack worth saving and making on repeat for the weekends.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
1881. Autumn Kale Panzanella Salad
A panzanella salad is enjoyable any time of ear and a wonderful excuse to have bread in your salad. A traditionally panzanella consists of height-of-summer tomatoes. This autumnal version is made up of kale and butternut squash.
Monday, May 19, 2025
Monday, May 12, 2025
1879. Onion Pomegranate Roast Chicken
I have mentioned before that while I appreciate a few key roast chicken recipes we have enjoyed time and again, I am always on the lookout for new flavors in a roasted chicken. This recipe brings the flavors of a Palestinian musakhan, in simplified form.
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