leadimage East Meets Tex: Sahar Arafat-Ray

    Sahar Arafat-Ray has had an interesting and lifelong love affair with food that she shares with others. "I love teaching people how to cook and showing them, that anyone, with a little practice and patience, can cook. It’s not a mysterious thing.”

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secondimage Middle Eastern Comfort Food (podcast)

What do you want to eat after a month of fasting? Something good, of course. Sahar Arafat-Ray is our guest this week, and explains how to make Middle Eastern dishes that Muslims might eat to break the fast of Ramadan.

secondimage The Pies Have It (podcast)

As National Pie Day is Monday, January 23, 2012, it just seemed apropos to offer up an old-fashioned, feel-good pie recipe, with more to come in February, which is National Pie Month. Sharing a recipe with Field & Feast today is Sharon Yingling. Full disclosure: Sharon is my hair stylist.

secondimage Starting from Seed (podcast)

Seeds are crazy cool. They remain dormant until conditions are right to support their growth. Once they receive the necessary moisture, warmth and sunshine, the life force stirs within them and they begin their journey into the world.

secondimage Good Food Awards (podcast)

Good food is food that tastes good to us, right. But, if you talk to the people who organize the Good food Awards--now in its second year--they'll tell you there's more to it than that. Good food also has a conscience.

leadimage Knafeh: A Sweet Relief

At the end of 30 days of fasting, as observant Muslims undertake during Ramadan, you want something delicious and decadent to reenter the world of regular dining. Knafeh fits the bill.

leadimage Mussakhan: Baked Chicken on Bread

Sumac is a spice from a bush by the same name. The “berries” are usually sold dried and ground in Middle Eastern markets, and the powder made from them is used to give a lemony, astringent flavor to foods, including the baked chicken and bread dish called Mussakhan.

leadimage Buttermilk Pie with Vodka Crust

Buttermilk and vodka may not be a flavor combination that comes to mind when you think of two great tastes to go great together. However, if it is a sweet, creamy buttermilk custard embraced by a crème brûlée- like candy shell, and swaddled in a light, flaky vodka pie crust, well, you might just change your mind.

leadimage Menudo: Hangover Cure

So-called remedies or cures for treating the ailment of overindulgence are rampant, but nothing short of a nuclear blast clears the head and everything attached to it like menudo.