A Trip Down Memory Lane

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Dear lovely readers of this blog, this is going to be my last post for now until we move over and get settled in England. In 5 days time we will be boarding a plane on our way to ANOTHER new country and new life… so with that in mind I thought it would be appropriate to take a trip down memory lane, or at least the past two years for this post.

At the beginning of 2011 Joe and I found out that he had been offered a job here in Michigan, mind you he had applied for this position and had a phone interview a a few months before this but we never heard anything back, so it was kind of just forgotten about. At the time a lot of people where he worked were moving around as well (now most of the people in his old team are working else where too) and he we were ready for something different. So when he got the call to say he’d been offered the position we decided to take it.

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Herb Frittata (Kookoo Sabzi)

Plate of herb frittata

It’s officially my birthday month (and Joe’s)!!! So what better way to kick off the month than with one of my favourite dishes.

Isn’t it funny how the smell of food or even just a few ingredients can set off a trigger of memories in your mind? I’ve been craving some Persian food lately and wanted to make something fairly simple for lunch today. A lot of Persian food consists of a lot of ingredients plus somewhat long cooking times and while I’m happy to do that when I have the time and patience sometimes I just want a quick meal.

I decided to make ‘Kookoo Sabzi’ which translated means Herb Frittata. Kookoo = frittata and Sabzi = herbs. There are a few kookoo recipes actually, each made with different ingredients, for e.g. we have Kookoo Sibzamini (sibzamini = potatoes), Kookoo Morgh (Morgh = chicken) and Kookoo Bademjan (Bademjan = eggplant) just to name a few. [Read more…]

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