Notes about Recipes in this book

• Chicken shawarma

  • psarrett on February 11, 2024

    Easy, yogurt sauce is great with the chicken. I make this about once a week (usually without the mint, because it's not on-hand, and only half the yogurt). Mostly pantry ingredients, everyone loves it.

  • Shewi128 on May 03, 2024

    This was an easy and very flavorful weeknight meal. I paired it with homemade flatbread and a side of cucumbers. I'd definitely make this again. I also used the leftover chicken and onions on top of a salad with the yogurt as the dressing, and it was fantastic. Highly recommend.

• Pepper-lemon beef and spinach stew

  • Rinshin on September 07, 2021

    Delicious with flavor that is not familiar taste to me perhaps from allspice and aleppo with its meaty, slightly sour, rich mouthfeel, and spicy flavors. Was scared to use instant pot with such a small amount of water so went with 275F oven for 3 hrs after initial stovetop browning of onion and beef. Halved the recipe and used double amount of water and continued to add more water to maintain at least 1 1/2 C liquid proportion and this worked out well for us because it was tad too spicy initially. After the initial and final stovetop cooking, this recipe was mostly hands off and easy to make. Used tri-tip and baby power greens instead of chuck and spinach. Photo added

  • Skamper on January 12, 2023

    We both liked this. I used only 1 lb of chuck but kept the other ingredients the same,except for using just 2 T lemon juice. Used the instant pot method and served over brown rice.

  • anya_sf on January 30, 2023

    Used the Instant Pot, which surprisingly worked with just 1/4 cup water. I only had 1.5 lbs beef (wish I'd had more) and used 16 oz spinach; 3 people finished it all over rice. My Aleppo pepper must be super mild as I couldn't really taste it and would have liked more seasoning. My IP runs hot and the eggs curdled slightly despite constant stirring. I appreciated the easy, hands-off meal, but would tinker with the seasoning and maybe thicken differently if I made it again.

• Korean grilled marinated short ribs (Yangneom galbi)

  • Rinshin on September 05, 2021

    This was absolutely fantastic. Of all the years of making kalbi including my own method, this was by far the best. I had to sub very small apple and pear for Asian pear but it worked out perfectly. Marinated at least 6 hours. Used an outdoor gas grill which took less than 10 minutes tops to cook. Made ssamjang and used lettuce leaves as a wrap for me. This chef is very special. Photos added.

• Ssamjang

  • Rinshin on September 05, 2021

    Outstanding ssamjang. I can put this on everything including scrambled eggs and sunny side up.

• Glazed sour cream and brown sugar bundt cake

  • Shewi128 on January 17, 2022

    The flavor and texture were great. It did cook up all the way to the top of the bundt pan, but then shrunk after a few minutes out of the oven. It made a short squat cake. However, the flavor and glaze were great.

• Yasmin Fahr's tomato and white bean soup

  • Hana.Sundet on January 18, 2022

    I had a very faded sense of smell at the time, but this soup still brought a good balance of basic flavors. Mild heat, but enough to help clear sinuses. The whole family loves it!