Tag Archives: olives

Chicken Kefta/Meatball Tagine

The traditional Moroccan recipes for  Kefta Tagine tend to use lamb meatballs that they poach in water and then place in a tagine with the other ingredients and then cook over low heat in the tagine pot. For health reasons, I have been trying to cut back a little on all kinds of red meats (can’t give it up...
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Baby Eggplant Tagine

I have an old friend coming over for dinner tonight and he told me that prefers to eat vegetarian meals. So I racked my head for a bit and decided to make a vegetable tagine. In any case, I had bought a couple of ceramic/terracotta Tagines from William Sonoma a few weeks ago and after much procrastination and foot-dragging,...
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Eggplant and Olive Tapenade

For the past two weeks I had completely neglected my poor blog. This was because I had to go on a whirlwind trip to India – for just one week!!! Usually the travel to and back from India is enough to knock me out and this time even more so because I made both the trips in such quick...
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Spicy Nicoise Salad

A few years ago I spent a whole month in Nice, France and fell in love with the city, the weather and most importantly the food! I know most hoity-toity French think of Nice as dirty and low class and prefer the surrounding towns on the Mediterranean Coast in southern France such as Antibes, Cannes or Ville-franche sur Mer....
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