Another in our series of helpful store-cupboard guides on what to do with obscure stuff that you buy on a whim or for just one ‘must-do’ Sunday supplement recipe. You know – the stuff that then loiters, accusingly, at the back of your pantry, whilst you wonder what on earth to do with the rest…
Category: Recipes
Recipes from Persepolis and beyond…
Mother-in-Law’s Quick Aubergine Pickle (Torshi Bademjun)
Iranians will pickle anything. No really. Many’s the time we have gone out with the mother-in-law (to the butcher, the baker or whatever) only to come back with a bag of randomly foraged things, which before you can say ‘haji-maji-ya-faraji’ (that’s abracadabra in Farsi) she has immersed in vinegar or boiled into jam. Usually she…
17ish Reasons Why You Should Totally Rush in and Buy a Huge Watermelon
OK – so the devious cornershopkeeper gave you a complimentary glass of watermelon smoothie in a conniving attempt to persuade you to buy a super large Cypriot melon. And because you’re a mug, it worked. And you did. But now you’ve got the thing home it suddenly looks really big. And it won’t go in…
Persepolitan Roast Lamb
Not actually roast lamb, no. See bonus recipe below…We’ll never make good food writers. We keep creating nice stuff to eat, and then eating it before we remember to take Pinterest-worthy photos of the dish. But hey – a tasty dish in the tummy is worth two on the food-stylist’s table, no? But we did…
Khoresht-e-Gheimeh Sibzamini: Chip Stew
The recipe for this very popular, classic Iranian dish has somehow escaped all of our newsletters and books. Until now. We had it for dinner last night at Persepolis Towers – jah-ye-shoma khali boud* It was so nice that we ate it all before we thought that we should perhaps take a photo and write…
