Category: Snacks
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Sweet & Salty Crispy Chickpea (Garbanzo Bean) Snack
My dad would pick up these delicious, crispy chickpea snacks when he had a few extra bucks left over from grocery shopping. They weren’t cheap, so it was a real treat when he would come home with some after shopping at his favorite international markets. There were only two different flavors available at the time,…
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Oven Fried Scraggly Potato Chips
I’m one of those people who grew up eating Kentucky Fried Chicken from time to time. Dad would occasionally bring home a bucket of chicken with our favorite sides as a treat for us on his way home from grocery shopping on the weekends. He barely made it in the door before we’d grab the…
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Funnel Cakes And The Fourth Of July
The Fourth of July holiday officially kicks off the summer season each year, and after prepping all of the food, my mind always goes to what we will be eating for dessert or while watching the fireworks. I realized that I had not shared my recipe for funnel cakes, so I wanted to show you…
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Crispy, Creamy, Cheesy Cauliflower Croquettes
When families tell me that they have a tough time getting their children to eat vegetables, I am usually left wondering who rules the roost at home. Children will grow into adulthood eating the foods that they’ve become accustomed to, so, if you are not providing good quality meals early on, these bad habits will…
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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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Remembering The Professor & A Welsh Rarebit
My parents were born and raised in Cairo, Egypt and in their adult years, they lived under the rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser was an Arab Nationalist who came up through the ranks of the Egyptian military. As he rose to power, he formulated his goals to improve life in Egypt. He set out…
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Greek Meat & Potato Pie
One of the things I love most about traveling to other countries is discovering the unique street foods that define the flavors of that country. After a long day of traveling, most people would probably get to their hotel, call in room service and call it a night. But I’m a simple girl at heart…
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Will The Real Ho’mous (Hummus) Please Stand Up
I just cringe when I see the word h-u-m-m-u-s… You know — the Americanized spelling of that delicious spread made from garbanzo beans known in the Middle East as ho’mous (pronounced ho-mousse). I can just hear my dad’s voice insisting that I use the correct pronunciation – a respect for different cultures and their food…
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Dad’s No-Fuss Meatballs
Our house was always a stopping point for friends and family who lived close by, so it is no surprise that I was raised to prepare quick, delicious snacks and appetizers for unexpected guests. My family had a huge list of different items that could be put together quickly for events that offered little or…
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Salted European Pralines For Any Season
The French created a delicious way to eat nuts coated in a crystallized caramel that they call pralines. These are the predecessors to the southern version of pralines (pronounced prah-leens) that we know and love, but the european version does not have any butter, milk or cream in the recipe. This delicious snack is made…
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Greek Tiganites, Addictively Delicious Fried Treats
My mother was always the queen of snack making – she’s the only person I know who loved making snacks more than we loved eating them. When my friends would visit, my mother always ended up in the kitchen to make us whatever we wanted. Whether it was a delicious bowl of stovetop halva, endless…