Turkey Meatballs and Grated Fresh Tomato Sauce With Harissa

Photo by Tom McCorkle and food styling by Lisa Cherkasky for The Washington Post   Grating ripe, in-season tomatoes yields a sumptuously fresh-tasting sauce which, here, gets layered with aromatic, deeply flavorful harissa, a quintessential Middle Eastern condiment. The sauce is simmered with tender turkey meatballs made with whole-grain oats, rather than the traditional breadRead More

Lentil and Macaroni Soup With Swiss Chard

Photo by Deb Lindsey for The Washington Post   This comforting  soup is flecked with Swiss chard, tomato and whole-wheat elbow pasta and seasoned with a deeply flavorful but mellow mix of Middle Eastern spices. This Lentil and Macaroni Soup with Swiss Chard is a one-pot wonder that is easy to make on a weekendRead More

Spring Toast With Labneh

Photo by Deb Lindsey for The Washington Post   Here, the rich and spreadable Middle Eastern yogurt is smeared luxuriously on slices of whole-grain bread and topped with bright spring produce and sunflower seeds. If you can’t find labneh, the Icelandic yogurt known as skyr will work instead.   Spring Toast With Labneh   Ingredients 8Read More

Cauliflower Tabbouleh

Photo by Quentin Bacon, Food styling by Suzanne Lenzer, and Prop styling by Maeve Sheridan   When you grate raw cauliflower florets in a food processor or on a box grater, it takes on the texture of a grain, and it is fun to experiment with ways to use it like one. Here it subsRead More

Cauliflower Tabbouleh

Photo by Quentin Bacon, Food styling by Suzanne Lenzer, and Prop styling by Maeve Sheridan   When you grate raw cauliflower florets in a food processor or on a box grater, it takes on the texture of a grain, and it is fun to experiment with ways to use it like one. Here it subsRead More