Salad-e Shirazi: Tomato Cucumber Salad

Serves 3 As part of our cooking class today, besides the yellow rice and roast chicken, there is the tomato cucumber salad. The class version was canned tomatoes, diced cucumber and diced lemon, the meat only that put in the food processor to make it pasty. I am giving you a recipe beneath where the…

Middle Eastern Roast Chicken and Yellow Rice

Serves 6 This months cooking class was all about Middle Eastern Food. We made roast chicken, yellow rice and cucumber salad. Great! just what I was craving for.  The day before I was thinking about roast chicken and yellow rice that I ate at Kanoko restaurant. This restaurant chain owned by a Japanese pair have their…

Lamb Kofta

Serves 3 The first time that I cooked Kofta was the week after the birth of my first daughter. I stock my kitchen with Pakistan number 1 spice mixes, that is was the label said, from Shan Food Industries. I had everything from the Tikkas, to the Kormas, to the Koftas. Every morning and afternoon…