If you’ve read my blog for a while, you’ll know that about once a month, a group of 5 friends and I get together to ‘travel the world through our tastebuds’.
One of us chooses a cuisine and we all get to work creating a dish or two in our own kitchens. Then, we come together to share a yummy feast. This is what we call Food Safari.
Our last Food Safari of 2017 was Middle Eastern cuisine, and it was a seriously yummy one! Middle Eastern food is made for sharing and it all came together just perfectly!
We enjoyed:
Florence’s Israeli cous cous with lemon za’atar, carrots and roasted chickpeas
Steph’s creamy baba ghanoush topped with sesame seeds
My grilled aubergine dish cooked in a spicy chick pea and tomato sauce and topped with garlicy yogurt
Erin’s flavoursome grilled vegetarian stuffed peppers and courgettes served in a spicy sauce
Kathy’s moreish flaky cheese pastries, totally made from scratch!
Florence’s two dips: Tahini, yogurt and lemon juice // The creamiest hummus
Florence’s crispy chickpea falafels perfect for dipping in those creamy sauces!
Steph’s creamy roasted carrot dip served with vegetable crisps
Kathy’s perfectly seasoned chick pea, red onion and herb salad
All washed down and enjoyed with a glass or two of Dayan’s very special Sangria {red wine, pisco, rum, orange juice and syrup}
It certainly was an absolute feast and writing this post makes me realise just how many things you can do with chick peas!
It was the perfect way to end our first year of Food Safari especially since we are now on a break as we are all over the world enjoying our long summer holidays.
So, in the first week of March, we’ll be back in our kitchens preparing for our first Food Safari of 2018, Greece! What should I make? Any meatless Greek suggestions are welcome!
And where should we travel to next?! Please let us know some of your yummy suggestions!
You can see my posts about our previous Food Safaris here, just don’t read them before you’ve eaten lunch as there is so much drool worthyness in there 😉 ::
India | Cambodia | Peru | Italy | Mexico
Happy Weekend!
Marcella xx
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Such a wonderful array of food, I love those cheese pastries. As for Greek recipes, I love a delicious fried saganki with caramelised figs on top! 😉
They were delicious!!
Thanks for the recommendation, I googled fried saganki, and it sounds delicious! I especially like the idea of caramelised figs on top!
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This looks too good for words! I’m on a massive chickpea kick at the moment so I’m taking notes… I continue to be impressed at the cooking skills of you and your friends! We have found some excellent Lebanese restaurants here and I don’t understand how they make everything so tasty.
As for Greek, I vote anything with halloumi or feta. I am a cheese fiend.
It was all so yummy, I think the secret was in the seasoning and spices, that was key!
And yes, yes, yes to feta! I think there is going to be so much of it. Sadly though, halloumi is nowhere to be found in Chile, hopefully that fact changes one day!!
Yum yum yum! Maybe Japan or Spain next?
Love those ideas!! A tapas night and a sushi night both sound ridiculously yummy!! 😋
What a fun idea!! Love this. Greek food is some of my favorite. You need to have a good tzatziki for sure.
Thank you!! And yes, tzatziki is a great idea, so yummy!!
I love this “food safari” name! We have a similar tradition with my friend group here, although we are typically not so specific to all make a dish from the same country or region (… but I think we should!) I have to say that you and your friends seem to be excellent cooks – it all is so creative and looks so delicious! I made an excellent veggie moussaka that was SO good – definitely recommend trying it out. The exact recipe I used is somewhere on my old computer, but I think there are a lot of good ones floating around…
You definitely should! It totally pushes your cooking skills, which is always a good thing 🙂
And yummy, a veggie moussaka sounds like a great idea, crazily enough, I’ve never actually made one! So this could be a great chance to learn 🙂
Absolutely love your Food Safari idea! All the food looks super yummy! #WanderfulWednesday
Thank you! We definitely eat well on these nights 🙂
This is such a cool idea. I need friends who are equally as into cooking/baking as I am so we could try new recipes in this way!! How do you all pick the theme for each night? Draw straws? Vote? One person chooses?
Fun! 🙂 The person who hosts the evening decides on the cuisine and so far that’s worked out really well 🙂 It’s always a highlight of my month!
MMm this particular meal party looks delicious! I love anything with couscous and it’s actually hard to find in Germany (obviously). I really should start a similar thing, my coworkers are quite international these days! #WanderfulWednesday
Really? I’m surprised! Especially because you can get it in almost every supermarket in Chile.
And yes, you should start one 🙂
Love the idea of a food safari – might have to try and do one here with my friends! #wanderfulwednesday
You should! It’s always so much fun and a great chance to get creative!!
A food safari is a great idea! All that food looks so delicious. Someone might have already mentioned it but spanikopita for a meatless Greek appetizer. #wanderfulwednesday
Yummy! It was recommended earlier and I’d never heard of it before, but it really does sound like a delicious option! 🙂
Oooh I really love middle eastern food – especially baba ganoush, that one looked so yummy! I don’t know very much about greek food apart from getting food poisoning when I was in greece haha – I tend to shy away from greek food as you might guess! so i’m curious about what you come up with in march! someone will have to bring ouzo!
Oh no! Food poisoning memories never leave you! I feel the same about strawberries as I got food poisoning from them when they weren’t washed properly (I never knew that could happen but it’s a thing in Chile!)… now I can’t look at them in the same way!!
This is such an awesome idea! The food looks really delicious, and I do love a good hummus 🙂
For your Greek theme how about tzatziki? #wanderfulwednesday
Thank you!! It’s always a lovely way to spend the day. And yes, a tzatziki dip is essential, I think! 🙂
I love Middle Eastern food and seriously, everything looks amazing! If I didn’t know any better, I would have guessed everyone was from the Middle East lol. It’s lunch time here and I seriously might get some falafels now lol. And I totally want to try your garlicy yogurt… I love anything garlic!
Ohh, try to find some falafel for lunch, yum!
The garlicky yogurt was so easy to make, I just chopped lots of garlic and herbs and mixed it with Greek yogurt, it was yummy!!
I love middle eastern food and that baba ghanoush looks so delicious! Greek is another favorite although I’m boring and usually stick to gyros although any lamb dish is always a winner in my book.
I’m excited to see where Greece takes us!! 🙂
Love that you’re keeping the Food Safaris going. When we traveled to Greece last Spring, all I ate were the spinach pies a.k.a. spanakopita. Soooooo good!
I’ve seen recipes for those spinach pies and they look beyond yummmmmy!!!
I LOVE these food safaris! How great that you have a group of friends to do this with! And wow, you guys did amazing with this meal! Everything looks so delicious, especially the baba ganoush and the cheese pastries! I would love to see you guys do Thai food next! Though I don’t know how easy it is to get those Thai ingredients there!
I really love it! It’s always a highlight of my month 💕 Thai would be great and from what I’ve heard, there are a few shops where we could get the ingredients from! 🙂
This is such a cool idea, I need to find some friends like that myself, must be one excellent get together every month — if you ever want to try out East Asian cuisine and want to take a earthy flavours safari, try out recipes from my blog —
Thanks for the recommendation, that sounds yummy!! 😀
This looks delicious! I love Middle Eastern food. Will you share the recipe for the stuffed peppers and the chickpea salad?
Such a cool idea to have a group of friends exploring a specific cuisine. Sounds like the best potluck idea ever!
It really was all delicious! Sorry for the late reply but I don’t have the recipes for them, but fingers crossed you can find something similar online.
Eveyr time I read your food safari stories it makes me want to crush your party. It all looks amazing and this is truly the best idea ever! I wish I lived closer! xx
A blogger Food Safari would be so much fun!! 🙂
I still love that y’all do all of those food safaris! I could definitely get behind this one, especially with all the dips! Dips are seriously my favorite!
Dips are just the best, aren’t they? I can never get enough 🙂
That looks amazing! I cannot wait for our kitchen to be done so I can start cooking wonderful stuff like that again! 😀 I want to make my own hummus, a friend of mine makes this amazing beetroot hummus and it’s so good!
Yummy, I hope it’s almost done. I make hummus all the time, it’s the best. My favourite is with basil and sundried tomato 🙂
All foods are seriously looking so delicious! i love you’re all safaris food, thanks for a great content!
Glad you enjoy them, Kat! 😀
This is amazing, thank you so much for sharing.
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This sound like SO much fun. I may have to do this with my friends! Maybe falafel for greek vegetarian? I could be wrong that it’s not originally Greek, but I had it yesterday at a Greek restaurant 😂
I think falafel is pretty flexible about where it’s from. We made looks of delicious Greek dishes that I’ll be sharing next month 🙂
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