This dish is extremely easy, takes only a few minutes to prepare, and is so delicious it will make you forget about meat altogether—perfect Lenten fare. It would go well with rice or perhaps vermicelli, but it’s terrific on its own. There are many versions of this recipe on the Internet, but they all trace their ancestry from Doc Ford’s Grille on Sanibel … [Read more...] about Yucatan Shrimp: A Dish for Lent
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Rod Dreher’s Christmas Toasted Cornbread-Pecan Dressing
My favorite part of holiday dinners is not the turkey or the ham, but the cornbread dressing. It's been like that for me since my childhood in the rural South. I can't separate my fondness for cornbread dressing from memories of my grandmother, at whose cottage table I ate helping after helping of it every Thanksgiving and Christmas, until she passed away the summer I was nine, … [Read more...] about Rod Dreher’s Christmas Toasted Cornbread-Pecan Dressing
Palestinian Hummus
Hummus is a characteristic dish of the Eastern Mediterranean, common from Greece through the Middle East and into Northern Africa. It is an ancient dish, dating to at least the twelfth century, and when made with an oil other than olive oil (avocado or grape-seed oil will do nicely) a staple of Orthodox fasting cuisine. The recipe here is from a family who emigrated to the … [Read more...] about Palestinian Hummus