Clementine and Carrot Lentil Soup 

New Week and ye have a fruit for a change! Clementines are here to say goodbye to march with a sweet punch!  Our first recipe is another easy, delicious Lentil Soup that fits perfect for spring dinner! Clementines add a freshness to the warming spicy lentils!  I served mine as a soup but if you…

Very Good Veggie Tajine

I warn you already: it’s one more recipe with Reine-Claude Plums! Behind all this plum recipes is the fact that my in-laws have a Reine-Claude tree in their house and since it’s season and plums are a really delicate fruit, I took about 7 kgs home to be sure they would not end up rotten…

BUTERNUT AND COCONUT BLACK RICE

It was not really long ago that I was introduced to black rice. From time to time I would find that kind of rice in the menu of restaurants and for some reason alway believed that it would be made with black tint(squid tint) and never got really interested until one day I had as…

CRUSTY RICE

First Time I tried this rice was with a couple of friend I met during my Parisian years. She was Mexican American and him Iranian American. They served the rice and told me it was typical Iranian. I just felt in love with it. Rice by itself is already good, crunchyness is to die for…

CHOCOLATE CHILLI

You know, every country has a food obsession and I am so happy to be Brazilian because that means BEANS for me. Brazilians eat black beans everyday and never get sick of it. Actually, If you serve a meal without beans to a Brazilian there is great chance they will call it snack! Ok, ok!…