Egyptian shawarma is a popular Middle Eastern street food made of marinated meat that is typically grilled on a spit and then shaved off in thin slices. The meat is usually chicken, lamb, or beef, and is flavored with a blend of spices such as paprika, cumin, and coriander. The sliced meat is then typically served in a pita bread, along with a variety of toppings such as lettuce, tomato, onion,…
Brave @srotzschthomas took one for the cookbookreview.blog team and reviewed 'as cooked on Tik Tok' and, spoiler alert, he loved it. Click on the link to find out why.
What’s the USP? Here’s a book guaranteed to stir up some sort of response in anyone over, say, thirty years of age. as cooked on TikTok is a collection of ‘fan favourites and recipe exclusives’ from over 40 of the social network’s food influencers.
And look, we’re coming into this one with serious trepidation, yes? The front cover promises a foreword by ‘Gordon + Tilly Ramsay’, and the pictures…
Take a red onion. Caramelize it. Add garlic. Add tomato paste. Add smoked paprika (a lot). Add 1 can of butter beans. Mix. Juice 1 lemon. Add the juice. Add sriracha. Add heavy cream. Add spinach. Serve with bread or over rice. Cry over how fucking good it tastes. The only “cooking” you have to do is cooking your onion down. Everything else is just adding shit. You don’t even have to measure it’s just to taste. It’s very good, very filling (1 can could probably feed 2 people). Got veggies in there, got protein. Very little effort required
I’m not immune to doing what tik tok tells me to do so I picked up The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I’m surprised how much of it I agree with already and have already practiced within my own philosophy on writing, but one thing I really love is the morning pages.
Morning pages are essentially something you’re supposed to do every morning before you do anything else: open your journal and write three pages longhand—whatever comes to mind, stream of conscious style. And yes, they should be done in the morning. As someone who usually journaled at night I’ve found my thoughts are less clouded in the morning when I first wake up.
A new(er) Dylan Hollis vid came out where his right eye was bruised and it was blinking more than the left and I'm not freaking out but if some homophobe in Wyoming punched him I'm gonna need to cut a bitch.
Basbousa is a traditional Middle Eastern semolina cake that is popular in Egypt and other countries in the region. It is made with a simple mixture of semolina, sugar, and desiccated coconut, and is flavored with vanilla extract and sometimes rose water or orange blossom water. The cake is baked and then soaked in a sweet syrup made with sugar, water, and lemon juice, which gives it a moist and…