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Miyan Taushe (Hausa Pumpkin Soup)

Miyan Taushe (Hausa Pumpkin Soup)

Miyan taushe is a traditional, popular soup in Hausa homes, especially during festive seasons or when pumpkins are in season. It reflects the Hausa people’s creative use of local ingredients to prepare nourishing, flavorful meals. It is rich, slightly sweet,…

Miyan Shuwaka (Hausa Bitter Leaf Soup)

Miyan Shuwaka (Hausa Bitter Leaf Soup)

Miyan shuwaka is a bitterleaf soup eaten in the northern part of Nigeria. Ingredients 100 g bitterleaf (fresh or dried) 2 large chunks meat 1 onion, chopped 2 pieces fresh red chile pepper, puréed 2 tomatoes, puréed 1 teaspoon palm…

Miyan Karkashi (Nigerian Sesame Leaf Soup)

Miyan Karkashi (Nigerian Sesame Leaf Soup)

Miyan karkashi is a Nigerian draw soup made from karkashi (sesame leaf). It is often consumed in northern Nigeria, where it is typically served with varieties of tuwo such as tuwo shinkafa and tuwo masara. Ingredients ½ cup karkashi leaves,…

Mishkaki (East African Meat Skewers)

Mishkaki (East African Meat Skewers)

Ingredients 2 tbsp white vinegar 50 ml (¼ cup) vegetable oil 2 tbsp water 1 tsp dried thyme 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp coriander powder 1 tsp cumin powder ½ tsp cayenne pepper ½ tsp paprika powder 1 tsp…

Mirliton Casserole

Mirliton casserole is a easy dish that works well as a side vegetable. It can be made with either seafood or meat, though it is most commonly made with shrimp or ground beef. Ingredients 6 medium mirliton (chayote squash), halved…

Mirepoix Sauce

Mirepoix Sauce

Recipe for mirepoix sauce (for masking meat, fowl, fish). This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook’s Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters. Ingredients Bacon, diced Lean…

Minestrone alla Casalinga

Minestrone alla Casalinga

This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook’s Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters. Ingredients Vegetables Butter Stock 4 oz uncooked rice 2–3 spoonfuls condiment for seasoning…

Minestrone alla Capucina

Minestrone alla Capucina

Minestra alla Capucina is an Italian recipe of soup in which Cappuccina lettuce is used. Ingredients Anchovy, scaled Butter 1 small onion, cut across 4 oz boiled rice Stock Procedure Pound anchovy. Fry it in butter with the onion and…

Mincemeat

Mincemeat

Mincemeat is a mixture of spiced chopped fruits. Traditionally mincemeat has contained meat, although many modern recipes omit it. This recipe, however, does contain beef. Mincemeat will stay good for a while. After all, the Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors had no…

Mincemeat Tart

Mincemeat Tart

Mincemeat is a spiced fruit preserve that does not in fact contain meat, although it may contain animal suet. The name is a throwback to Middle English from when “meat” was a word for all food, or to Victorian and…

Mince Pie with Meat I

Mince Pie with Meat I

Ingredients 1815 g (4 lb) lean beef, diced 454 g (1 lb) butter, lard, or vegetable shortening, diced 907 g (2 lb) white granulated sugar 907 g (2 lb) fruit mix 1815 g (4 lb) cored and sliced apples 350…

Mince Pie Tartlets with Pork

Mince Pie Tartlets with Pork

Ingredients 400 g white granulated sugar 300 ml wine 250 ml cider 1 orange, zested and juiced 1 lemon, zested and juiced ¼ teaspoon ground mace ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 cinnamon stick 1 vanilla pod 1 kg fruit mince…