This Shawarma Chicken is a Detroit classic!

I’ve introduced you to many classic Detroit foods, including Detroit style pizza and corned beef egg rolls. And thanks to a large Middle Eastern population, Detroit is also famous for our chicken shawarma!

It’s sold everywhere from ballparks to gas stations, with my favorite being from a restaurant called Bucharest Grill. Today, I am sharing my homemade version of this irresistible wrap sandwich.

While it may look like a long list of ingredients, it’s very fast to put together. In fact, you can make the chicken shawarma marinade and the sauce for the wraps at the same time. I’ll also offer shortcut ideas to make it even easier for a busy weeknight.

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I believe that one of the easiest but most impactful ways to take your home cooking up a notch is to make homemade salad dressings.

While jarred salad dressings are certainly quick and easy, they’re also generally filled with quite a bit of preservatives (like sodium and sugar) and artificial ingredients. Same goes for bottled meat marinades and glazes, which is why I make my own flat iron steak marinade and balsamic glaze.

Additionally, the flavor can be really hit or miss, and you usually don’t know how it’s going to taste until you’ve already committed and purchased an entire bottle. There’s nothing worse than spending $6 or even more on a fancy bottled dressing and discovering that nobody in your family likes it.

That’s why I love to make homemade salad dressings like miso dressing and citrus salad dressing.

Today, allow me to show you how another homemade salad dressing with big flavor can come together quickly and easily, and wow your family and friends.

The combination of lemon and feta can’t be beat – I’ve already made sure of that with my Greek yogurt mashed potatoes.

This feta dressing recipe is inspired by the salad dressing at a local Lebanese restaurant. It’s an incredibly versatile recipe to have in your back pocket, especially to toss with greens and serve alongside Greek lasagna, lamb bolognese or meat sauce rigatoni.

“Just made this dressing in 5 minutes and it’s absolutely delicious! What I really love is that I had all the ingredients in my fridge/pantry already. That’s always a huge plus finding a recipe with everyday ingredients. This will be a new staple for me!”

—Jessie

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Something about this time of year makes tiny sandwiches just feel oh so right. Whether it’s leftover maple bourbon turkey on a dinner roll with cranberry sauce, or a slice of pineapple ham on a small piece of crusty baguette with salted butter, it just tastes great.

But sliders don’t have to be just a way to use up leftovers. They can be their own special, dare I say elegant, dish.

These lamb sliders start with a succulent roasted boneless leg of lamb generously rubbed with warming spices. The meat is put on a slider bun and dressed up with pickled radishes and pesto mayo.

Bookmark this lamb slider recipe for a party this festive season! You can also use leftover lamb from a holiday dinner to make these sliders.

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“2020 is shaping up exactly as planned,” said nobody ever. But I will say, in ONE way, and one way only, it’s shaping up as I imagined.

And that’s because I had planned to make 2020 the year I shared the recipes my family has loved forever, but I’ve just never shared on this blog.

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If you’ve seen the term “kafta” on a Lebanese restaurant menu and have been unsure of what it might be, this post is for you!

To quickly explain, kofta is a mixture of ground beef or lamb, mixed with onion and spices, formed into a patty, log or meatball and then grilled.

Even if this is your first time hearing this term, I’m here to convince you that this dish is a great make-at-home weeknight dinner with huge flavor!

It can be made with your choice of ground meat, it comes together in about 30 minutes, and you can serve it sandwich- or bowl-style.

This beef kafta recipe is easier than many others you might find, because it doesn’t make you mess around with shaping the meat onto skewers. It’s not really necessary, trust me.

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If I’m being honest, I should have just named this salad “Lori’s Favorite Foods Salad.” Because that’s exactly what it is, including the beets.

Side note: Last week, I asked my followers on Facebook about their least favorite foods, and somebody said beets! I was basically like “um, beets are my favorite food!”

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There’s an amazing Lebanese restaurant just up the street from my house. I often say that if I could afford it, I would eat ALL of my meals there, because I never seem to tire of the bright, fresh flavors.

This is the restaurant that turned me from a fresh mint hater into somebody who craves fresh mint, in the form of their mouthwatering tabbouleh.

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Home cooks across Michigan love the great apples available in our state, perfect for cooking or eating on their own. Today, I’m guest posting for the Michigan Apples blog, sharing a recipe featuring Gala apples.

Slow cookers are known for one delicious service they provide: being able to fill the pot with ingredients, go to work for eight hours, and come home to delicious crockpot soups. Unless . . . you work from home.

And then, you fill the pot with ingredients, stay at home with it for eight hours as it smells progressively more and more amazing, and then text your husband to come home now so that you can eat right when the eight hour mark hits.

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A few times a month, I assemble what I call a “platter dinner.” Sometimes it’s premeditated (like this one) and other times it’s literally just filling a big cutting board with all of the odds and ends I find around the kitchen, adding a bread basket and calling it a meal.

Either way, it’s one of my favorite ways to eat dinner. It’s low-stress, low-mess and a lot of fun.

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When you think about going to a baseball game and the food you might eat that day, you probably think of hot dogs, peanuts or nachos.

You probably don’t think of falafel (a Middle Eastern fritter made from chickpeas), but you guys know I love a mashup (see also: gyro pizza), so baseball and falafel have become intertwined!

You see, right near the stadium where the Detroit Tigers play is a bar/restaurant that serves amazing falafel pita sandwiches.

They also have chicken shawarma, but I prefer falafel because they’re a little lighter than the shawarma.

They don’t weigh me down quite as much, and leave me with plenty of room to get a big ol’ ice cold beer at the ballpark.

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