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• COZY CORNER
  • Inspired Writing
  • Memories & Events
    • Montreal related
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    • 'Zereshk' Close up
    • A Food Trip in Iran
    • Dubai, a vertical mosaic
    • Fabulous Fall
    • Flowering tea
    • Happy Norooz!
    • Peru Trip
    • Rugag bread in the making
    • Water
    • Welcome to Paradise!
• KITCHEN, for recipes
  • Aash and Soups
    • Aab-goosht
    • Aash Sabzi Shirazi – herb aash
    • Aash-e anar
    • Borscht
    • Creamy, crusty French tomato soup
    • Everything about Aash-e reshteh
    • Fennel/noodle soup
    • Lentil soup and meat, blended
    • Miracle soup for the cold
    • Pomegranate soup
    • Three Vegan Blender Soups
    • Yogurt soup
  • Appetizers, Sides and Salads
    • 7 healthy foods
    • 7 ways to use extra homegrown zucchini
    • A Trio of delicious, easy finger foods
    • Celery Root
    • Crab Salad / Sandwich
    • Good nuts, pretty nuts
    • Grated cucumber & Yogurt (Maast-O-Khiyar)
    • Green Apple and Pistachio Salad
    • Herbs (sabzi)
    • Holiday Sides with Quinoa and Lintel
    • Jeweled yogurt mix
    • Kale Chips
    • Kidney-beans dish
    • Lentil Salad with Bell Pepper & Cumin
    • Massaged Kale Salad
    • Mirza Ghasemi, (Persian Smoked eggplants casserole)
    • Mixed quinoa with zucchini
    • Moussaka, domesticated
    • Orzo salad
    • Rigatoni & Broccoli
    • Shirazi Salad with everything
    • Shish-tauk sandwich
    • Shrimp-beans-quinoa with nasturtium
    • Six uses for your extra homegrown zucchini
    • Soybeans: wholesome, whole greens
    • Strawberry & Baby Spinach Salad
    • Tasty Porcupine
    • Thanksgiving Salad
    • Three Appetizers, with Beet, Mushroom, and Lentil/avocado
    • Three colourful salads, with Cabbage, Quinoa, and Avacado
    • Veg.s and dips
    • white beans & tahini Dip
    • Zucchini Fritters
    • Zucchini, Summer dip
  • Baked in Oven
    • Barbari Bread
    • Homemade pizza
    • Oven baked fish & vegetables
    • Salmon, a different oven-baked style!
    • Stuffed whole chicken breast, Banoo style
    • Tender breast chicken, how to
  • Beverages
    • Beet, apple, carrot juice
    • Blood Orange
    • Breakfast smoothie
    • Chia-Berries drink
    • Doogh
    • Flowering Tea
    • Fresh lime drink (sharbat)
    • Guacamole & Mojito
    • Hibiscus-Rum Cocktail
    • Hot whisky
    • My Little Treasure of Chinese Teas
    • Sangria
    • Tea rules & ritual!
    • The Milk Controversy
    • Two Cocktails: Margarita & Bellini
  • Cakes & Pasteries
    • A Baking affair & two muffins
    • Baghlava
    • Butternut Squash Cake
    • GF Fruits-Nut Muffins
    • Loaf cake
    • One-Bowl Vegan
    • Persian Rosette, “naan panjareh-i”
    • Sponge Cake with Strawberry & Cream
    • Toot (Mulberry Sweet): A Norooz delicacy
    • Vanilla-saffron Biscuit
    • with raisins and walnuts
  • Desserts
    • Dates Halva
    • Dried fruit
    • Fereni: A Persian comfort desert
    • Fruit salad
    • Halva-aardi
    • Iced cantaloupe & rosewater
    • Peach-Yogurt ice cream
    • Pear-peach, oven baked
    • Ranginak
  • Jams, Yogurt and fruit/veg based
    • Apple Jam
    • Blueberries
    • Cherry jam (whole fruit)
    • Granola. fresh fruit & yogurt
    • Homemade Yogurt
    • Mixed Berries Jam
    • Told you these foods were good for you!
    • Typical Iranian breakfast
    • Weekly vegetable and fruit shopping
  • Kebabs
    • Chiken kebab on charcoal
    • Hamburger on charcoal barbecue
    • Introducing "Fizzy Sauce"
    • Kebab koobideh
    • Kebab-barg
    • Marinate ideas for grilling
  • Kookoo, Kotlet, omelette & Stuffed
    • Egg and spinach omelette
    • Eggplant wraps
    • Kookoo sabzi, the many faces of it!
    • KooKoo with potatoes
    • KooKoo/herbed omelette
    • Kotlet, the greasy companion
    • Samossa
    • Smoked meat @ Montreal Schwartz
    • Smoked salmon bagel
    • Stuffed Cabbage Leaves (dolmeh barg kalam)
    • Stuffed grape leaf (dolmeh2)
    • Stuffed vegetables (dolmeh1)
  • Meals (khorak) and Pasta
    • Chicken & Herbes de Provence
    • Chicken & Rapini
    • Fried breaded breast chicken and vegetables
    • Fried fish & cranberries
    • Fried fish fillets, Southern Iran style
    • Green Pasta
    • Kashk-bademjaan, exquisite style!
    • Koofteh: Stuffed meatballs
    • Macaroni mix, Iranian Style
    • Meatballs & oven-baked fall vegetables
    • Shrimp Fettucine ‘n’ smoked paprika
    • Shrimp, Thai with coconut
    • Shrimp-Onion dish
    • Stuffed whole fiish
  • Mixed Rice (Polow)
    • Barberries mixed rice
    • Cabbage-mixed polow
    • Carrot Mixed Rice
    • Dill/beans mixed-rice with fish
    • Dill/broad beans rice with pot roast
    • Green Beans mixed rice (Loobia Polow, vegetarian version)
    • Ground beef mixed-rice
    • Havij Polow
    • Indian Rice
    • Jewel-mixed rice
    • Lentil-rice mix
    • Mixed herb rice and smoke fish
    • Persian upside down yogurt-saffron rice with chicken
    • Rice, plain and tahdig
    • Roast Chicken & Saffron Rice
    • Shrimp-mixed rice
    • smoked fish
    • Sour cherries-mixed rice
    • Sour-Cherry mixed rice (albaloo polow)
    • Tahchin
  • Sauce & Spice
    • Clove
    • Fresh Garlic
    • Ghooreh (sour grape) and its many modes
    • Introducing "Fizzy Sauce"
    • Make your own dipping olive oil
    • Pomegranate, the heavenly fruit of Persia
    • Sour orange juice
    • Turkish Pepper with everything
  • Stew (Khoresh[t])
    • Acanthus stew (Kangar)
    • Apple & Dried Apricot Stew (khoresh Sib o aaloo)
    • Celery stew (Karafs1)
    • Celery stew with saffron (Karafs2)
    • Eggplant stew (Baademjaan)
    • Fesenjoon
    • Ghalyeh, Shrimp (Ghalyeh Maygoo)
    • Ghormeh sabzi, mixed herbs stew
    • Glittering golden piaz-daagh
    • Okra Stew (Baamieh)
    • Pomgranate stew (Anaar-daneh mosamma)
    • Pumpkin Stew (Kadoo)
    • Red-lentil stew (Daal adas)
    • Spinach-plum stew (aaloo esfenaaj)
    • Split-beans stew (Ghaymeh)
    • Vegan stew, one type, three rules
• PET FOOD
  • For the Love of Dog (apple & Blueberry muffins)
  • KONGsicle
• SOCIAL-POLITICAL
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• YARD, for gardening