by jpachence | May 12, 2023 | Grill, Mediterranean Recipes, RECIPES
We posted a shawarma recipe last grilling season, making a lamb kebab version (Close to the Real Thing Shawarma Recipe). Now we’ll be making this Grilled Chicken Shawarma over and over again – juicy, tender, full of flavor chicken that’s really easy...
by jpachence | Aug 30, 2022 | Mediterranean Recipes, RECIPES
We love our grill. And we love shawarma. So, can we make a good (almost) shawarma at home, without too much effort? It turns out that we can get really close to the shawarma we’ve experienced in big cities. Shawarma is a popular dish originating from the...
by jpachence | Jun 17, 2022 | Grill, Mediterranean Recipes, RECIPES
Halloumi – have you heard about this cheese that doesn’t melt? It’s actually a bit magical, in a way. It doesn’t taste like much when raw (in fact, it’s a bit rubbery and salty). When cooked, it has a browned, crusty exterior, a soft,...
by jpachence | Jun 10, 2022 | Mediterranean Recipes, RECIPES
We love to try burgers using all sorts of ingredients – meat (bison, ostrich, duck), fish, veggies – and one of our favorites is lamb. We come across ground lamb often, and it is typically priced at a deep discount to lamb chops or leg of lamb. Our recipe is a riff...
by jpachence | Dec 28, 2021 | Mediterranean Recipes, RECIPES, Vegetarian Recipes
This Easy Calabrian Pasta recipe is a bit unique – a one-pot recipe for both cooking the pasta and the sauce. What is so cool about this method (besides one less pot to clean) is that a creamy consistency is created because the starchy pasta water is already...
by jpachence | Jul 19, 2021 | Mediterranean Recipes, RECIPES
Paella – what’s not to love. It’s usually a dish that has to wait for a weekend with nothing to do but work through all the steps to make a proper batch. Then we saw a version on Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street – one of our favorite...