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Baked Fish and Chips

Baked Fish and Chips

Easy Baked Fish and Chips are homemade nod to the British pub classic- a fan favorite! Served with a heavy side of malt vinegar and pea puree.

Crème Brûlée Cake

Crème Brûlée Cake

This amazing creme brûlée cake has all the flavors and textures in the classic dessert, with rich custard, burnt sugar and creamy buttercream.

Hot Cross Buns

Happy Easter! To mark the occasion, I’m going way down under to Australia with Hot Cross Buns.

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Torta Pasqualina

Torta Pasqualina is a double-crusted savory Italian tart is a traditional Easter dish filled with spinach, ricotta and eggs for a vegetarian main dish.

Paçoca, Brazilian Peanut Candy

Paçoca, Brazilian Peanut Candy

Paçoca Brazilian peanut candy is a homemade candy made out of ground peanuts, Maria cookies sugar and salt usually served for Easter.

Spiced Sautéed Shrimp

We keep on keeping on over here and some days we play the easy card. Doing that today with some spiced sautéed shrimp.

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Algerian Chicken Soup

Algerian Chicken Soup

This Shorba is an Algerian Chicken Soup with a very Middle Eastern twist, full of veggies and beans and spices for the most flavorful soup.

Date Night: Magroodh, or Date-Filled Semolina Cookies

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve made dessert, and even longer since I’ve made cookies.  I was feeling pretty ambitious this past weekend with a lot of time on my hands and poo-poo’ed the idea of doing something lame like drop cookies (WAIT, I…

Fig-Date Bread

Traditional Libyan food is based around Mediterranean, African and Middle Eastern flavors in the form of tajines, couscous, salads, vegetables, bread, and soup.  Moving further into the desert, natives rely on milk, honey, bread and dates for sustenance and, so today’s I rely on at least two of the above to get me through the day – a homemade fig-date bread.

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Papaya Jam

Easy homemade fresh papaya jam contains simply three ingredients- papaya, lemon and sugar – and no pectin- for a delicious and different jam.