Cook with Soraya
The dish can vary widely within its basic definition, whether as a home recipe or on a restaurant menu. The main ingredients are ground meat cooked in a gravy with onions and sometimes vegetables, such as peas, celery or carrots, and topped with mashed potato. It’s not very traditional but […]
Kibbeh is a popular dish in Middle Eastern cuisine. Mainly, it’s found in Arab countries as well as Turkey, Armenia and Cyprus but with either a different name or a slightly different pronunciation of the same word kibbeh. The northern Syrian city of Aleppo (Halab) is famous for having more […]
Although this dish is called Mongolian beef, but this dish doesn’t actually exists in Mongolia. It’s an American creation of an Asian sweet and sour beef stir fry, that became popular and famous world wide only after it was made and served at P.F. Chang’s restaurants. Well, this super fast […]
Chicken pot pie is the ultimate comfort food. The Buttery, flaky pie crust topping a shredded chicken or in this case turkey plus vegetables, and a creamy sauce. We always have leftover roasted turkey in the fridge the day after Thanksgiving or on the Christmas day. We are all tired […]
This berry salad is a very simple and super easy to make, but what sets this berry salad apart and makes it unique is the lime-orange blossom syrup. It is very refreshing, sweet, sour and fragrant. I usually make this berry salad in the summer, but it is so colorful […]
Gravy is an important component to serve alongside a roasted turkey. Gravy basically is the juices and fat drippings produced from roasting any type of meat (au jus) plus a fried butter and flour paste (roux). Gravy is a delicious creamy sauce served with roasted turkey. It’s easy to make, […]
Well, nothing beats a homemade cranberry sauce, this sauce is so good. I usually make twice more than what is needed for the turkey because, everyone keeps taste testing that by the time the turkey is ready half of the sauce is already gone. 😉 It’s very easy to make […]
My father loves turkey so my mother cooked it more frequently than just in holidays. Sometimes she roasted it and other times she made it into a stew, but the turkey was never served with a gravy, cranberry sauce or even mashed potato, it was a totally different taste and […]
Fatoosh is a refreshing, bright Middle Eastern salad made with lettuce, cucumber, tomato, radish, mint and parsley, and its dressed with a vinegar, lemon, sumac and olive oil vinaigrette. This salad is made in many different countries of this region, but each city and town makes it in a slightly […]
Who doesn’t like to have a creamy, buttery mashed potato with the roasted turkey? If you’re planing to have a roasted turkey for any holiday dinner, then you should also think of making this delicious mashed potato. Tarragon adds a sweet rich aroma and flavor to the mashed potato. I […]