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My second recipe this week out of this cookbook that I have had since it came out, but hadn't cooked from.😬(The first was the Sweet-Spiced Roasted Nuts recipe that I posted a few days ago.) This is the vegan Persian Lentil Stew (Adassi) & it's very good. I did make a few small changes including adding coconut milk because curry, lentils & coconut milk is what I craved today.😋🍲A late lunch & my blog post for #soupersundays. Link to recipe 👇🏻

#aprilinbooks18 The prompt for the day is "the 9th book on the shelf" - but which shelf? - so I picked the ninth shelf in the lounge room. Sirocco by Sabrina Ghayour is a terrific Middle Eastern-Western fusion cookbook, and highly recommended. #cookbooks

#MarchIntoOz #OhNoNotYouAgain

Guy McDonough who wrote and sang this beautiful song. He died 1984, at the age of 28, as a consequence of his drug addiction.

Made two different recipes for orange and date salad yesterday. Forgot to take a photo until after we had already taste-tested the first. Sirocco's would be good as a side with a meal, Plenty More's stands well as a course on its own. Both were delicious, actually. #cookbooks

When Ghayour advised readers not to be rigid about following recipes, and later wrote: "I have a thing for feta drizzled with honey," I knew we would get along. While "none are authentically Middle Eastern," the recipes call for za'atar, sumac, harissa, pomegranate molasses & such. There's an intriguing Preserved Lemon Martini as well as Preserved Lemon Jam. I'm going to make her Date & Orange Salad with cinnamon vinaigrette today.

The Powell's cookbook store was pretty fun. I don't know how I did it, but I managed to go in TWO Powells locations and bought nothing for myself but the Leuchtturm I needed & planned to get. I did buy gifts for other people, but no reads for me! I'm trying hard not to add to my already huge TBR. It was tough. 😎