Melina's mom Lisi is kinda my second mom and we try to find fun things to do. Sometimes we bike or knit together. On Passover, we decided to make a big nice meal, even though neither of us are practicing Jews (she's Austrian). Still, we rounded up a few dishes that sounded delish and cooked them up. It was pretty hectic trying to get them all done at the same time. I don't know how those crazy chefs do it.
One of the dishes was tagine-cooked lamb. Apparently you have to cook it in a pan on the stove for a little bit to get rid of some water. Then you pour it into the tagine, which goes in the oven. Melina's sister Tanya started a tagine trend with our families who are now pretty obsessed with them.
Later, we'd dump in some prunes and blanched almonds.
In another skillet, we cooked dried apricots, cranberries and carrot which developed a really lovely sirup. The fruits were then layered over rice and steamed for a while. Mmm.
Whipping up a batter, FTW.
Lisi is kinda amazing at making these big jugs of infused water. Don't believe me? See our summer bruncheon.
The rice got a sprinkling of slivered almonds and pistachios. This was my fave dish.
Nice.
This was a tart-like thing made of matzo with a spinach and feta mixture inside and glazed with egg. So good and the pan was finished that night!
Here is what the tagine'd lamb looked like. Really moist and the almonds were awesome.
Oh. If you were wondering what happened to that batter, it became this marble cake.
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