Some like my food. I guess.
I have found that the best way to understand a person is through their food. When you share a meal and the stories behind them, suddenly you are no longer strangers. You are family!
Breakfast for Two?
Actually, a late dinner for one but a nice idea.
December 31, 2025
I have a bag of homemade bagels in the freezer so I didn’t have to bake anything. A huge pile of butter with honey drizzled on top was lovely. It simply was not enough honey though. Thankfully I had some delivered.
I also got plain Greek yogurt which is a staple. I added some dried cranberries, pistachios and honey for a sweet and salty topping. The crunch of the nuts and chewiness of the dried cranberries was a nice contrast to the creamy yogurt and sticky honey.
Miss Darcy
Lunch from Morocco.
December 31, 2025
I had groceries delivered yesterday and made riz bi haleeb, also known as rice pudding. It’s a Lebanese recipe with rose water and orange blossom water. I topped it with some chopped up pistachios for a bit of crunch.
The beautiful, floral aroma with the cool pudding is especially refreshing in the summer. I cranked up the thermostat and pretended to be in Beirut or Casablanca.
The pita is a staple that I make and freeze. I take a piece out and heat it up in a dry, hot skillet or if I’m lazy, the microwave for 30 seconds. My ex-husband even insisted on having tacos in pita bread instead of tortillas. I couldn’t say much because I put English sharp cheddar cheese on top.
Fusion cuisine: Immigrant children and others making do with a little help from their friends and neighbors. It isn’t the immigrants because Ahmed’s mother is from Nigeria and makes jollof rice which is garbage compared to our Chebu Jen. You know it too. 😏
If only the main dish was Senegalese to match the rice smack talk but alas it is a Moroccan tagine or stew. It’s chicken (cut up because America), preserved lemons (lemons preserved in salt and juice for months), olives, onions, garlic, ginger, turmeric and ras el hanout. It’s salty and flavorful. The bread is used to pick up the chunks and sop up the broth.
Who needs silverware when there’s bread?
Miss Darcy
A midnight snack well before midnight.
December 31, 2025
I wanted to munch on salt to inshallah help with the pufferfishing dizzies that were happening. Complex diseases. Whatcha gonna do?
Make POPCORN!
I got some chili lime salt seasoning. I normally make my own seasoning but I wasn’t familiar enough and it’s fucking good. I took the preservative hit with more pufferfishing but it was worth it! Along with the ever present sweet tea. Only Luzianne will do. Thank you kindly.
Happy New Year!
Miss Darcy
Put that South in Your Mouth!
January 1, 2026
I couldn’t forget my South on New Year’s, could I? Of course not, honey child.
I am a Yankee Muslim who loves baraka, blessings, luck, what have you. I don’t give a fuck what others think. I have stood here in Fremont, Nebraska throwing rocks at my house and yelling at the shaytan (devil) to get lost. I have even been spotted doing crazier than that.
Fremonters are starting to understand me with some natural trepidation. They will be fine with a sacrilegious bowl of black eyed peas without the ham hocks, cumin, etc. Inshallah.
Have a blessed New Year!
Inshallah 2026 will be an improvement but, humans, what are we going to do with us? I am praying for a whole mess of no nonsense habibi mommas who beat the tar out of habibis and find them an appropriate place for their habibi qualities to shine, personally. That’s just my 2 cents though.
Miss Darcy
2026 Will be better, right? Inshallah.
January 1, 2026
The failed experiment of 2025. The taste wasn’t nearly strong enough and I put moist gummies in powdered sugar which created a frosting around the gummies. The next ones were huge but better. The flavor has GOT to be stronger though. Inshallah I’ll improve.
Miss Darcy
