Category: Rice
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Quick & Easy 3-2-1 Fried Rice
I’ve always been a huge fan of rice — whether steamed or fried, it often made an appearance on the dinner table. It is most delicious when it’s just finished cooking right out of the pot, served piping hot. It was not uncommon to see me eating a huge bowl of it topped with several…
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Grape Leaf Dolmades The Greek Way
I’ve always considered dolmades the perfect food – what other single food item provides you with a vegetable, a carb AND a protein in one tidy little packet? I’m not exaggerating when I say that I have probably eaten hundreds, if not thousands of them in my life. Making them requires some time and patience…
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Deliciously Fragrant, Fruity & Nutty Armenian Rice Pilaf
One of the regular side dishes my family would make at home was something called Rice Pilaf. It was a combination of long grain rice and small, cut up pieces of vermicelli pasta that were cooked together in the same way that mum made her delicious fried rice. As a kid, I never knew anything…
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Almost Paleo Sticky Rice Pudding
The cold weather has each of us yearning for comfort foods, and one of the most classic desserts of all, is something many of us grew up eating. In our family, rice pudding was not a dessert we ever planned to make. It was one of those items that we made when there was leftover…
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Stuffed Myself Silly With Stuffed Squid…
Seafood was always big in our house. I remember going fishing as a young kid, then coming home cleaning our catch and cooking (actually frying) for hours until we finished. Growing up, we lived in an apartment, so pulling out the grill was not an option for us. So, our other alternative was to fry. …
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Middle Eastern Fried Rice, Perfect Every Time
As long as I can remember, my mom made this delicious rice. She told me that her mother made it for the family when she was growing up in Cairo, but she does not know how her mom came about the recipe. One day, I happened to be visiting a friend of mine named Shirin who…