Seafood and chorizo paella recipe is full of Pacific Northwest clams and mussels, wild salmon, spicy chorizo and garnished with sweet peas and bright lemon. When you are lucky enough to live in an area with abundant seafood and shellfish, what better recipe to make then the best Spanish paella recipe ever? Well perhaps a […]
Mom’s Grape Leaves Recipe
A step by step guide on making my mom’s Turkish stuffed grape leaves recipe. Simply filled with rice, ground beef and layered with fresh lemon. I grew up eating stuffed grape leaves. They are an acquired taste being that the grape leaves sit in brine and stuffed in jars. The brine soaks into the leaves […]
Sweet and Sour Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
I have a goal this year to share more “real meals”. More meals that we actually make for dinner and crave on a weekly basis. More good classics, stand by’s, weekly rotations and as we’ve been calling it, going back to basics. Now I’m all for challenges and adventures, but we can’t whip up a […]
Kalbi Beef Bowl with Kimchi (Korean Short Ribs)
I am so so excited to share this kalbi beef bowl recipe. I have been dreaming of making more Korean inspired food for a while and a recent trip to Bites restaurant in Oregon (more on that in a bit), sparked an even more inspiring recipe day and so..here ya go! A few weeks ago […]
Koofteh (Persian Meatballs)
I couldn’t wait to finally share these Persian meatballs, courtesy of my bff who came to visit a few months ago. She was out first house guest since we moved to Washington and knows how much I LOVE, love Persian food and gifted us with a can of sabzi koufteh. Sabzi, meaning vegetable or greens […]