Outside The Box Sessions: Lemongrass-Skewered Prawns With Curry Sauce In Tofu Boxes

After a few technical glitches, this long overdue post has finally come into public view. thanks to Lazaro, of  Lazaro Cooks,  who informed me that there was a problem with this post when it wasn't showing up the way it should be.  

This was the last dish I prepared and the post I was working on  back in May before I fell ill.

4th Of July-Mom's California Pasta Salad

As an American living overseas for close to a decade now, I've come to the stunning conclusion  that the prevailing perception of American cuisine, thanks to the global proliferation of the likes of McDonald's,  KFC and Burger King, has been written off as a diet of dry, bland hamburgers blanketed with orange glob that eerily bears a striking resemblance to a piece of melted orange vinyl  instead of cheese, fries bathed in salt and ketchup that we happily consume in all their artery-clogging glory.

Shiraz Salad

As promised in the previous post, here's the recipe for the Shiraz salad that I prepared for Father's Day.  This is probably the easiest and quickest Persian recipe you'll ever encounter.  This was the very first Persian dish my mom learned to make.  I used to watch her prepare this when I was little.  Years later, when I went off to college/university, I would prepare this every week when I got tired of the usual North American college student 's staple diet of instant mac and cheese, two-dollar pizzas and instant noodles.  Needless to say, this was the first "real"  and nutritious food I ever learned to put together.