This is one of my all-time favorite recipes to take to parties. I love it for its flavor as much as its brilliant green color (I think I want to paint my bedroom this color). Of course you can make this with fresh fava beans. It will take a lot of patience to shell [...]
Somewhere in the late 80’s, early 90’s American’s discovered Panzanella. Funny since Italian women had been making it for centuries! And not just Italians, many other cultures have bread salads; the Arabic Fattouche is the first to come to mind. When I first discovered Panzanella I was captivated by it. I thought it was [...]
Here comes another Yiayia memory! Even though the woman had nine kids, worked like a dog every single day, and wasn’t a very good cook she repeatedly made two things that were both complicated and time consuming. One was a Greek pastry called Thiples or Xerotigina (same thing, two different names) which is strips [...]
