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This is another “original recipe” I came up with. Growing up, we used to have these big fish fries on Sunday where we’d deep fry fish (on the bone) and pita bread and then eat them with a tahini sauce (you see it a lot in Lebanon at the coastal restaurants). I decided to put a healthy spin on that old tradition.

This is really simple, healthy, and delicious. First, I put some salt, pepper, and olive oil on a nice big piece of cod and baked it in the oven at 400 degrees for about 12-15 minutes.

In the meantime, go ahead and also cut a couple of pieces of pita bread into triangles. (I used pocket pita but you can use whatever you have available) Lay them in a pan and sprinkle with a little salt, pepper, garlic powder, and olive oil. Toss together and then make sure they’re all laying flat in the pan. Put in the oven on the rack under the fish, closer to the bottom.

For the tahini sauce, I just took a clove of garlic and mashed it with a couple of pinches of salt salt in the bottom of the bowl with a mortar. Then I added about 5 tablespoons of tahini and the juice of 1 lemon. You might need to add a little more salt at the end.

Once the fish finished baking, I removed it from the oven and tented it with some foil for a minute while I gave the pita points a minute to finish up. They probably take about 15 minutes to get nice and crunchy.

Once the pita chips were done, I served the fish on each plate and topped the fish with tahini sauce and chopped parsley.

As a side, we had sauteed some spinach in olive oil and garlic. It complimented the fish and tahini really well.

The pita chips were served on the plate along with some babaganoush (recipe for that is coming soon).

Tahini is derived from sesame seeds and is a great source of protein, essential fatty acids, B vitamins and calcium.

I highly recommend this dish for a satisfying and light meal.

We made spaghetti alla carbonara the other night for the first time and it was really delicious. It was also the first time we used an Anne Burrell recipe (she’s on Food Network). I was impressed and will try to make more of her dishes in the future.

This will easily be one of our standby dishes in the future. It was so quick and easy to make. The ingredients are fairly basic: eggs, spaghetti (we used whole wheat), pancetta (if you can’t find pancetta you can substitute bacon), parmesan and pecorino cheeses, salt, scallions, and pepper. The only tricky thing is trying to make sure the eggs don’t become scrambled eggs once you add them to the hot pasta and pancetta. The egg and cheese mixture should just be a white sauce once it cooks. Ours got slightly scrambled but it didn’t matter. It was so good. Maybe next time I’ll try to temper the eggs by adding a bit of the hot pasta water to the egg mixture first to get the mixture slightly warm before pouring it into the pan with the pasta.  Also, don’t dismiss the use of the scallions. They are not just a garnish, they seriously do give the dish that final burst of flavor. So, definitely use them.

I highly recommend this as a quick, delicious dinner option. Enjoy!

Ok, so who would have thought we’d have some amazing Ethopian food to blog about from Myrtle Beach? But we do! On our last night at the beach we wanted to eat something other than the typical American fare you find there. So we found Redi-Et on Trip Advisor’s website. It was highly recommended. So, we ventured on a 20 minute drive from N. Myrtle Beach to try them out.

When you pull up, you can tell right away it’s kind of a “hole in the wall” and is part of a little strip mall. I can’t lie, I was a little apprehensive for a few moments. But once our waitress (who is also the owner and cook) came up to our table, I felt at ease. She was fairly shy and very sweet.

She started us off with some homemade bread that we were told to dip in clarified butter sprinkle with chili powder (they call it Berbere). It was a great way to start.

We ordered the Vegetarian Sampler and the Siga Tibs. The Vegetarian Sampler comprised a little bit of everything they have on their vegetarian menu.

Siga Tibs

And the Siga Tibs was some really delicious flavored cubed meat that came with salad and some vegetables.

If you’re ever in Myrtle Beach then you must check them out. Also, they are really inexpensive. You get a ton of food for the price.  I would love it if we had a place like this here in Greensboro! For more information, you can visit their website.