In response to Jennifer G.’s search for a recipe for Armenian chicken in a pot with potatoes, Ara Kassabian offered the following suggestion. Now we…
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Recipe Found: Noonoog, Noonook, Nunug!
When Nancy DerSimonian was looking for a recipe for Noonoog, a soup made with meat, chickpeas, mint, lemon and such, I scoured my resources. I came…
White Fish with Spinach and Lemon-Roasted Potatoes
Land-locked Armenia sits between two seas – the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. Since Armenia has no access to either, she offers little or…
Borani, Anyone?
Whenever someone asks me to help find a lost family recipe, I can usually count on Ara Kassabian to post a recipe or an interesting…
Spinach Bulgur with Basterma
Spinach-Bulgur with Basterma A few weeks ago, Diane Aginian wrote asking for my help in finding a recipe containing spinach, bulgur and chaimen from basterma….
Gouvedge, Nashmy-Style
John and Pat Nashmy of North Jersey share the same love of Armenian-Assyrian-Middle Eastern food as we do. Pat, who is part German and part…
Spinach Bulghour with Basterma
Diane Aginian of MI and FL, has asked for our help in finding a family recipe from long ago. This dish was made (and quite…
In our house, Thanksgiving was an Armenian holiday — and so were all the rest
Kalajian dinner party, 1960s Like any other American family’s table, ours overflowed on Thanksgiving — and a golden-brown turkey was always the centerpiece. But my…
Kufteh … Deconstructed
Every so often, Doug and I get a craving for kufteh. When time doesn’t allow for the full preparation, we just make the meechoog (filling)…
The passing of an Armenian lamb apostle, George Stanley Kooyumjian
It’s not often that reading an obituary makes you hungry, but the Fresno Bee newspaper’s story on the passing of Stanley George Kooyumjian was a…