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Tabouleh and grilled aubergines with Tzatziki sauce

Monica — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:50:46 +0000

I declare myself an absolut fan of cous-cous. And of arab food. And since it had been a while since I didn’t eat, this past week I’ve had it more than twice. Last week with my dad, I prepared this delicious cous-cous and grilled aubergines with Tzatziki sauce. Yesterday I made the cous-cous again for my friends and again sucess!

It’s such a simple salad to make, with a different taste and aroma of what we’re used to having. And the aubergines are the perfect side-dish with the salad. The Tzatziki sauce, usually used in Kebabs, matches amazing with vegetables as well, it enhances a simple salad if you use it as dressing as well. So here you go, three easy, delicious vegetarian recipes with the taste of a different culture.

Let’s g0 recipe by recipe:

Tabouleh.

Grilled aubergines with Tzatziki sauce.

Delicious!!!!

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German Potato Salad

Monica — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:21:11 +0000

First of all, I want to thank GastronomÃaYCia for giving my Panettone the first prize in the Christmas Recipe contest they made. I won an amazing printer and dinner for two in an international food restaurant of my choice. So I’m so very happy with my super prize! I also just recently came from an amazing trip to India and Nepal, had the opportunity to attend a wonderful fairy tale wedding in Mombai (Vargas Llosa wrote and article about it in his last column) and spent a lot of time with my beautiful family. So I am abolutely recharged and willing to accomplish many things this 2012!

This recipe actually is from 2011, from the latest Christmas, which I spent with my family in Berlin. So, given the circumstances this German Potato Salad could not miss this year. I’ve been cooking it for many years now, this recipe though has new important ingredients such as broth and the juice from the bacon.

Adding the vinegar while still warm not only keeps the potatoes firm but enrichens the flavour, as does the broth and bacon juice. It is a simple salad, delicious to eat with nothing more, with a grilled fish, with sausages, with turkey, etc…. and it is also very simple to make! So here you go, the step by step recipe.

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Delicious mediterranean gnocchi salad

Monica — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:08:22 +0000

A few weeks ago I was going for dinner and wine at my friend’s Malena beautiful terrace. Having such good weather those days, I could only think about eating a nice salad. I ran intoÂ PÃ£o e Queij’s Blog and I found this beautiful and different gnocchi salad that I adapted and cooked for dinner. If you already have baked potatoes from the day before, it only takes 30 minutes. While the red bell pepper is roasting in the oven you start preparing the gnocchis and get together all the salad ingredients.

Delicious and exquisit!!!

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Solterito ArequipeÃ±o

Monica — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:41:32 +0000

This is a typical salad from Arequipa city in PerÃº, where my grandmother grew up. And every time I went for lunch to my grandma’s house, always, she received me with her Solterito salad. I ate not 1, nor 2 but at least 3 plates. Delicious. So, as you can see, there is no doubt that every time that I eat it I remember my grandma Carmen. One of the best things about eating when good memories arise is that food and tasting become part of that memory and our perception of tasting and flavouring change and become, a different pleasure. This recipe and post goes to her, with all my love, and to Arequipa where she grew up to be the greatÂ mother and grandmother she was.

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Red Swiss chard salad

Monica — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:10:56 +0000

Spring has been welcomed at home with this salad made with ecologic fruits and vegetables. The star of the salad was a gift from Laura who came from being in a garden and gave me spiked cauliflowerets, stem cabbage spikes, red swiss chard and a large goose egg I’ll try in these days. Thanks! It was so good. I did it as a personal treat and ate it with a nice cold lemonade.

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Green bean salad

Monica — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:29:29 +0000

In PerÃº, we talk a lot in slang using food expressions. Green beans in peruvian slang referred to as things being complicated, but in spanish, it does not make much sense in english really. However, in this salad we make beans easy-going. The secret: dress them while still hot.

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