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Mediterranean Feast

18 Jul

WE’RE ALIVE! I hope you weren’t worried (or starving). Summer=Vacation. Wanted to say a BIG thank you to all the Facebook and website comments about our recipes. I’m at a crossroads about commenting on every single comment to say ‘thank you’, I just feel like that seems a little silly, but believe me, we cherish EVERY single comment–good or bad!

So onto the recipe…

This is actually 3 recipes, hence the title  “Feast”. Here’s the breakdown: Mediterranean spiced meat kebabs, tafooleh salad and roasted garlic baba ganoush dip. You can make all 3 or just one and you’ll be eating like a king. We’ve made this so many times, in fact, we’ve made this for a dinner party (+ a few other accoutrements), our grandparents, my parents, kids –and had huge success. I don’t know why I’m just getting around to posting it.

Mediterranean Feast

Ingredients

Meat Kabobs

  • 1.5 lb. ground meat (we’ve used lamb, beef and buffalo with great success)
  • 1 T ground cumin
  • 1 T ground corriander
  • 1 1/2 t ground cinnamon
  • 1 1/2 t garlic powder
  • S & P

Tafooleh Salad

We posted this recipe way back in the day…well, it was one of our first posts anyway.

We grow tomatoes and this salad is a great way to use them up, if ya got ‘em.

Roasted Garlic Baba Ganoush Dip

  • 2 medium eggplants
  • 7 cloves garlic, skin kept on!!
  • 1/2 c olive oil
  • 2 T sesame oil*
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • S &P

Method

For the Kebabs

Turn the grill onto HOT and keep it there! Completely submerge 5-6 wooden skewers (if you have metal skewers, skip this step) in water for about 30 minutes. You’re trying to wet the wood so it doesn’t burn on the grill. In a medium sized bowl, combine all the ingredients for the kebabs and mix together with your God given forks, yo hands!

Form the meat around the water soaked skewer, like you’re be making a lollipop, or perhaps a meat-sicle. Haha! Place the meat-pops on the grill and cook for about 5 minutes, turn and cook another 5 minutes on the other side.

For the Roasted Garlic Baba Ganoush Dip

Get your oven to 350ºF. Cover a baking sheet with foil. Cut the stems off the top the eggplants and split them in 1/2. Place them on the baking sheet and give them a light drizzle of olive oil. Grab a small sheet of foil and place the garlic cloves in the middle (DO NOT remove the skin of the garlic!), drizzle with olive oil and close up tight, like a little bundle of love. You’re making roasted garlic baby–some of the tastiest stuff on Earth! Place in the oven and roast until the eggplant can easily be pierced with a knife, about 45 minutes to an hour.

Once the garlic is cool enough to handle, remove the skins. The garlic should be nicely golden, brown. In a food processor, add all the ingredients and blend until smooth.

*Typical baba ganoush uses Tahini, which is sesame seed paste. It’s expensive and a mono-tasker kind of ingredients–I only really make one recipe with it. It’s just not worth it, so I use sesame oil instead, something I use a lot in Asian recipes.

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Greek Slaw

14 Jan

A nice alternative to the ubiquitous Greek salad.

Ingredients

  • 1 red cabbage
  • 1/2 red onion
  • 1/4 c pepitas (a.k.a. hulled, green pumpkin seeds)
  • 5 oz. feta cheese, crumbled
  • 3 T Dijon mustard
  • 2 t oregano
  • 2 lemons, juiced  & zested
  • 4 T vinegar
  • 5 glugs olive oil
  • S & P

Method

1. Slice the cabbage in half and remove the white, inedible core.

Lay the cabbage, cut side down, and slice as thinly as you can without cutting yourself. Do the same for the onion.

2. Put the sliced cabbage, onion, pepitas and crumbled feta cheese in a large bowl.

3. Just like you’re making a salad dressing–combine the rest of the ingredients in a container with a lid and shake the hell out of it.

4. Pour the dressing onto the cabbage.

5. Serve immediately or stick it in the fridge and let it marinate.


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