Ingredients: 2-3 kg assorted wild greens: hartwort, amaranth, radicchio, sowthistle, nettle, endive, mustard 250 g dry onions, finely chopped 300 g green onions, finely chopped 1/2 cup olive oil 1 bunch fresh dilllweed, chopped 1 bunch fresh fennelweed, chopped salt and pepper Method: Trim, chop and rinse greens. Steam them in a large pot and […]

Ingredients: 1 lt good quality white wine 100 g honey orange flower water or rose water Method: Mix all the ingredients together and serve chilled. (serves 6)

Ingredients: 1/2 kg pumpkin or orange “Winter” squash 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1 tbsp ground coriander 1 tsp salt olive oil for frying Method: Remove seeds and “stringly” part from the center of the squash. Cut the flesh into small pieces 3×4 cm. Mix the flour with the salt and coriander and dredge the […]

Ingredients: 300g onions, thinly sliced 1/3 cup red wine 1 cup olive oil 150 g dry myzithra or goat cheese or haloumi, cut into 12 triangles 6 slices of sandwich bread, cut diagonally (12 triangles) flour for dusting 1 tbsp wine vinegar a pinch of dried thyme salt and pepper Method: Fry the bread in […]

Original Recipe: (An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the 13th Century) Take lemon, after peeling its outer skin, press it and take a ratl of juice, and add as much of sugar. Cook it until it takes the form of a syrup. Its advantages are for the heat of bile; it cuts the thirst and binds the bowels. […]

Original recipe: al-Andalusi no. 79 p. C-2 (Good) Knead the necessary quantity of flour, one time with water, another with oil, and to it add yeast and milk until it has the same consistency as the dough of fritters, and leave it until it has next risen. Next grease with oil a large earthen pot, stretch in […]

Original Recipe: al-Baghdadi p. 212/14 Take fine white flour, and with every ratl mix three uqiya of sesame-oil (one part oil to four of flour), kneading into a firm paste. Leave to rise; then make into long loaves. Put into the middle of each loaf a suitable quantity of ground almonds and scented sugar mixed with rose water, […]

Original Recipe (al-Baghdadi p. 214/14) Take fine dry bread, or biscuit, and grind up well. Take a ratl of this, and three quarters of a ratl of fresh or preserved dates with the stones removed, together with three uqiya of ground almonds and pistachios. Knead all together very well with the hands. Refine two uqiya of sesame-oil, and […]

Method: To ten cups of steamed Rice,add about 2 cups of a mixture of sliced almonds, raisins, chopped dates, and apricots.

Thinly slice the oranges, sprinkle with rosewater (more or less, depending on how well people in your audience will like it), and then lightly with cinnamon.