Mark Bittman's 100 Simple Summer Dinners
You have to read this list.
Includes things like white beans and shrimp, or herbs over pasta, or pesto with pasta or grilled fish.
Worth clipping for your file.
Cookbooks
Deborah Madison: Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Indispensable - I use it all the time, and give it as presents to brides, young people starting out, etc. Not for vegetarians only - hence the title - a great resource for anybody wanting delicious recipes for vegetables, grains and legumes. Great sauces and salads, too.Claudia Roden: Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon
Excellent in-depth cultural and social essays on three major cuisines; the recipes include the standards as well as unusual dishes, and the photographs are gorgeous. A great gift book - the Dove asked for and got it for Christmas.
Cooking Basics
My Food Files
- Black-eyed Peas and Spinach
- Pumpkin Tahini
- Lentils and Spiced Chicken
- Basic Lentil Vegetable Soup
- Leila's Commonplace Blog
- Dove's Collected Recipes
- Chicken in a Pot
- Roz Bi Shaghria
- Green Beans Lebanese Style
- Figs Preserved in Geranium Syrup
- Grape Leaf Season
- Hummous - Chickpea Tahini Dip
- Mjaddarah - Lentils, Caramelized Onions and Rice
- Kafta in a Tray with Potatoes
- Lebanese Mezze 101
- Baba Ghanoush
- Tabbouli
- Red Lentil Soup
- Spiced Chicken
- Baked Kibbeh
