My father-in-law, Josh, or Shoo-WA as Nana called him, didn’t talk a lot. He was an Iraqi Jew who left Iraq around 1950, and ended up living in London. He’d wake at 5 am, and sit in front of an electric fire, smoking and playing with worry beads, drinking tea, for hours. At weekends, he’d … Continue reading Chicken with squash
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Red Pepper Salad
Starters (hors d'oeuvres is a bit of a fancy word) fill you up before the main course. Tactics like limiting the size of portions only annoy people who just want more. The solution is to serve a meal consisting entirely of starters. This gets called brunch or mezze or various other names depending on where … Continue reading Red Pepper Salad
