Every year we cook a birthday dinner for our friend Tomeika with her choice of entree. This year she chose Cubanos, the famous Cuban sandwich made with pork loin, ham, Swiss cheese and pickles. We had no idea she was a Cubanos fan.
The one missing ingredient in a Cubano made outside Miami typically is the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ethnic'
Birthday Cubanos
August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Ethnic, Recipes
Tags: Cuban·sandwiches
Baba Ganouj
August 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Ethnic, Recipes
When you’ve got lemons–so the saying goes–make lemonade. The same applies to eggplant. We’ve got plenty of it in the garden right now. In fact the plants themselves have long given up trying to stand upright, they are so weighted down with fruit. They just spread themselves on the ground. (Note to self: stake the [...]
Tags: eggplant·Middle Eastern
Kids Make Moroccon Lamb Stew
May 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Ethnic, Recipes, kids
We are winding up our fourth year of food appreciation classes yet I think this was our first time ever cooking with lamb. After spending the entire year on the continent of Africa (who knew?), we recently landed in Morocco on our virtual culinary world tour, and in North Africa lamb is a favorite meat, often [...]
Tags: food appreciation·lamb·Morocco·stew
Kids Make Ethiopian Potato Stew
May 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Ethnic, kids
Here’s another easy Ethiopian dish that the kids in my food appreciation classes really loved: potato stew, or Dinich Wat.
This stew is loaded with great vegetables: cabbage, carrots, onion. It was a great thrill to see the kids eating this so willingly, even asking for second and third helpings. There’s something about Ethiopian food kids really [...]
Kids Make Ethiopian Yellow Pea Stew
May 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Ethnic, kids
I wouldn’t have guessed that kids could go crazy for split peas. But they did for this dish of Ethiopian yellow split pea stew, called Kik Alicha, that we made in our food appreciation classes this week as we continue our world culinary tour in Africa.
This preparation is so ridiculously simple, it begs the question [...]
Tags: Ethiopian·food appreciation·peas·stew
Kids Makes Ethiopian Spicy Vegetables (Yataklete Kilkil)
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Ethnic, Recipes, kids
Teaching kids about food and cooking I’ve come to learn that an appreciation for vegetables is largely a function of age. The younger ones–Kindergartners–walked away from this dish of freshly cooked vegetables tossed with aromatic butter. All they wanted was the bread. The older children–nine- and 10-year-olds–weren’t so crazy for the spongy Ethiopian injera bread, [...]
Kids Make Doro Wat
April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Ethnic, Recipes, kids
We’ve been looking forward to the day when we could taste our own spicy Ethiopian food with injera bread and the day has finally arrived. This dish, Doro Wat, features chicken and hard-boiled egg in a traditional berbere sauce. Here in the District of Columbia, we have a large Ethiopian population and I knew some [...]
Kids Make Ethiopian Chickpea Fish
April 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Ethnic, Recipes
You’re probably wondering, What the heck are chickpea fish?
Well, our food appreciation classes have resumed after the spring break and we’ve landed in Ethiopia on our virtual world culinary tour. Chickpea fish are something the Christian community makes to celebrate Lent, the fish being a traditional symbol for the Christ figure. They are most unusual–unlike anything we’ve [...]
Brats mit ‘Kraut
March 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Ethnic, entertaining
How do you throw a party for someone moving to Germany?
In devising a buffet dinner menu for 14, my wife requested the sauerkraut that I started about a month ago. After all, how many people get to taste homemade ‘kraut at a going away party?
The rest of the menu was also genius: for hors d’oeuvres, [...]
Tags: German·sauerkraut·sausage
Kids Make Cucumber Raita
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Ethnic, Recipes, kids
The kids in my food appreciation classes continue to explore the cuisine of South Africa, which has been heavily influenced by Indian immigrants. This week we made a favorite condiment, cucumber raita, that has a wonderful cooling effect served with spicy curries. It couldn’t be simpler, and even the kids noticed how healthy it is, consisting [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
