One-Pot Meal

Spicy smoked salmon chowder is creamy, quick and delicious and served with delicious homemade beer bread for a complete and cozy meal.

Hungarian Túrós Testa is an easy and rich cheese and pasta dish, with cottage cheese and sour cream that blend to coat plain noodles

Lamb Stuffed Eggplant is a delicious way to indulge in the flavors of the middle east, where seasoned lamb fills whole eggplants and baked until saucy and soft.

The last dish I’m bringing from you is a homemade recipe from D and her family’s tomato pappu.  And, as we all know, homemade recipes are the best.

Tomato Biryani is a one-pot vegetarian rice dish with Indian herbs and spices.

I mentioned before how big a party Mardi Gras is down in Brazil, which meant I just HAD to cook Brazil. No brainer. Since I moved to Chicago seven years ago (seven!), my list of “to try” restaurants has exploded. Like, I want to eat…

Butter chicken, traditionally known as murgh makhani, is an Indian dish originating in Delhi. It is a type of curry made from chicken with a spiced tomato and butter sauce.

Gujarati Dal is a regional adaptation of traditional Indian lentils and is influenced by an area whose trademark cuisine is vegetarian that combines the sweet and savory.

Bengali shrimp with potatoes is a delicious, high protein dish with southeast Asian flavors, done in thirty minutes or less.

Today’s dish, Tomato Begun, is the Bangladeshi version of a “just home from work, nothing cooked, feeling hungry, and the eggplant needs to be dealt with now” dinner.  It’s easy, healthy, clean, fast and tasty. In short, the perfect meal for Friday night.