A highlight of our weekend in Naples, Florida last month was the sour-cherry martini I drank at a Persian restaurant. Doug’s Armenian Sour Cherry Martini…
Date Archives April 2014
Doug’s new book tells a very Armenian life story while sharing lessons learned along the way
I felt certain of the title the moment I decided to write the book: Stories My Father Never Finished Telling Me. It represents a dilemma that…
TTVEBAS – A Holy (Maundy) Thursday Armenian Recipe
Cooking enthusiast and Armenian cookbook author, Sonia Tashjian, sent me a recipe for a special food traditionally served on the last Thursday before Easter (Zadik)….
Grape leaves stuffed with brown rice: A healthy choice
Looks can be deceiving, or in this case just not very revealing. Brown rice-stuffed grape leaves What you see are stuffed grape leaves, but what…
Jingalov Hats (Lavash bread stuffed with herbs) – a Specialty from Artsakh (Karabagh)
After reading a recipe for Jingalov (Djingialov) Hats in the AGBU cookbook, “Flavors with History – Armenian Cuisine”, I thought it might be interesting to…
Two-for-One Black Bean Recipes
I have to be honest with you – I never ate black beans growing up in our American-Armenian household. Nor had I ever heard-of –…