Recipes

This is a favorite dish my daughter and I brought back from Thailand. We were there on a food/cooking tour in March, 2006. They eat forms of sticky rice for...

This carrot and cumin soup recipe, based on a traditional Middle Eastern soup, has become a favorite with everyone who tastes it. It's also unbelievably healthy (almost no fat) and...

I created this recipe while trying to copy the soup I love at an area restaurant, which was a little too far away to visit frequently. It's not exactly like...

Impressing your guests with cooked rice doesn't get any easier than this aromatic rice recipe.

This cold pickle recipe is a family recipe, compliments of my grandmother, Jeanette Kesselring, from Arnold, Missouri. These are delicious eaten straight from the jar (although we use them as...

I learned this in Nepal; instead of chicken soup (chicken is expensive), they make turmeric soup. It is just as good for a cold.

This is a favorite of ours from Louisiana. It's not a "BBQ" in the traditional sense, but herbed shrimp. It's best with shrimp with heads on, but if you can't...

This recipe was adapted from "The New American Chef" by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page. It was used as an appetizer during their book signing event at The Spice House...

This recipe comes to us courtesy of the "Spice of Life Cookbook" by Treva Davis (no longer in print).

When our children were small, we ended up with a lot of bananas that were too ripe. So, I experimented and created my own recipe for banana nut bread. The...

This recipe is the Jordanian national dish. It was given to me by a Masters degree student, currently studying in Australia. I've made it for several Middle Eastern folks who...

I was served this wonderful rice at a thank-you dinner served by an Armenian family. I was in a choral group at the time, and the daughter of the family...

This recipe is an adaptation of one I found in a medieval cookbook. It is an unusual, but tasty, way to serve asparagus.

This recipe comes to us courtesy of Jimmy Bannos and John DeMers from their cookbook, "The Heaven on Seven Cookbook. Where It's Mardi Gras All the Time!" Photo by Kristin...