Meet Shakshuka: My Favorite Saucy Eggs

2013_03_03-shakshuka.jpegI first had Shakshuka at Eltana, a wood-fired bagel shop in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. They offered it as an option among their handful of soups, as something hearty to go along with your toasty bagel. That day, the love affair began with this tomato-based saucy egg dish that’s now become a favorite in our house for slower weekend breakfasts and brunch. Have you ever tried it? More



The Dash Greek Yogurt Maker: Make Quarts of Greek Yogurt Out of Any Milk — International Home + Housewares Show 2013

The Dash Greek Yogurt Maker:

The International Home + Housewares show has literally millions of square feet of exhibition space, but every year, while plowing through it all, there’s something that stops us in our tracks. A smart idea whose time has come. This year, that product was this: The Greek Yogurt Maker from Dash. Let me explain why. 

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Provencal Endive Salad

Belgian endive (correctly pronounced “on-DEEV”, though most people around here say, “N-dive” and good luck getting them to change) is a lettuce-like vegetable that is often used with the leaves acting as little boats, to hold appetizer tidbits. The leaves are delicate tasting, just slightly bitter, exquisite. Belgian endive is a chicory, like radicchio or curly endive, that commercially is grown completely indoors, away from light, in order to result in the delicate leaves we enjoy. Exposed to light, the leaves turn green and become much more bitter. They grow like a forced bulb on top of a large root the size of a fat carrot.

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Provencal Endive Salad

Belgian endive (correctly pronounced “on-DEEV”, though most people around here say, “N-dive” and good luck getting them to change) is a lettuce-like vegetable that is often used with the leaves acting as little boats, to hold appetizer tidbits. The leaves are delicate tasting, just slightly bitter, exquisite. Belgian endive is a chicory, like radicchio or curly endive, that commercially is grown completely indoors, away from light, in order to result in the delicate leaves we enjoy. Exposed to light, the leaves turn green and become much more bitter. They grow like a forced bulb on top of a large root the size of a fat carrot.

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