This recipe comes from our second book, Breakfast for Dinner. Sometimes I forget about the recipes in that book and how much we love them; we need to be better about revisiting them more often. Taylor especially loves this dish, and that's no surprise, seeing as how it's satisfying and hearty and chock full of peppers and onion and everything else he loves. Shakshouka (or shakshuka) loosely translates to "all mixed up" in Arabic, and hints at the potent spice and exotic flavors. This one-pot-wonder of a dish also goes by the name "eggs in purgatory". I don't know who came up with such an obvious misnomer, but I seriously question their judgement: anyone with tastebuds will know that this richly spiced tomato sauce is hardly purgatory. In fact I'd argue that it's nothing short of heavenly. Which is why I think shakshouka is a far more apt name, in my opinion. Perhaps it's the same 'they' that decided eggs were breakfast, and tomato sauce was dinner, defining a set of arbitrary

Nov. 3, 2023, 6:37 a.m.

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