Looking for a healthy appetizer or side dish? Look no further! Spanish Marinated Eggplant & Peppers is popular tapa that’s great as appetizer or side dish for grilled meat. Healthy, refreshing and the best part – it can be prepared in advance! Just to be clear, this dish is not ‘pickled’. You shouldn’t store it…
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Swedish Potatoes with Dill Cream Sauce
A potato side dish with a go-to dill recipe! Potatoes with Dill Cream Sauce has always been a Swedish favorite – perfect with fish or grilled meat! I did not like this potato side dish the first time I saw it. Coming from Asia, I had no idea what a dill is – and to…
Spanish Spinach with Chickpeas
Looking for a chickpea recipe? ‘Espinacas con Garbanzos’ (Spanish Spinach with Chickpeas) is a popular tapa from the southern region of Spain that you can always make at home. Healthy, delicious and ready in thirty minutes! Andalucia is a beautiful and an unforgettable region in the south of Spain. We’ve not been fortunate enough to…
Onion Soup Gratin
This onion soup gratin takes more than an hour to make, but it is so worth it. Pureeing some of the onions makes it even more DELICIOUS! I completely agree with you – there are TONS of onion soup recipes out there, and I am not even referring to ‘French Onion Soup’. 🙂 One thing…
Potato and Zucchini Bites
Who does not like potato croquettes? Even those who claim to hate them are in denial. (?!) Seriously, I always thought that potatoes served as appetizer are generally crowd-pleasers. This dish, Potato and Zucchini Bites, is slightly a notch higher when it comes to vegetable content and taste. It uses an equal amount of…
Roasted Chickpea Soup
Roasted Chickpea Soup gives you NUTTINESS and EARTHINESS in every spoonful! Creamy and healthy — hard to believe there is NO cream added! If you have had hummus, you know that this dish, Roasted Chickpea Soup, will be creamy even WITHOUT adding any cream. That’s what I like about it. When I make pumpkin soup,…
Sweet and Sour Baby Onions
I have not come across a lot of dishes that can be served as an appetizer, side dish or added to a salad, AND to top it all, can be served either hot or cold. To my surprise, sweet and sour baby onions is one of those dishes. As an appetizer, you can have…
Smoky Eggplant Soup
December 2014, Istanbul. That was when I first tried Smoky Eggplant Soup. I like eggplant and I have cooked it in different ways, EXCEPT as soup. It sounded ‘so new’ to me and my friend, we just had to try it. We were not disappointed. It tasted so different, but in a pleasant and…
