Mahlzeit - Food without Borders

I watched Ali Güngörmüs cooking with hobby cooks. The concept of the show is, a hobby cook makes a meal for Ali and then he takes the same ingredients and makes a different meal out of them for a home cook. There are plenty of inspirations on this show. This is based of one of his shows. I used 1 lbs of boneless beef short ribs 1 medium onion chopped 2 cloves of garlic chopped or minced 1 can of tomato sauce 1 can of diced tomatoes 1/2 cup of chopped celery root (optional) 1/2 tsp of paprika 1/2 tsp of ground allspice 4 tbsp of harissa 2 bat leaves olive oil water i9f needed) Pad dry the short ribs and cut them into bite size pieces. In a Dutch Oven heat up the olive oil, add the onions and the celery and cook till the onions are translucent. Add the meat and let it get some color. Then add all the remaining items. For the spices and the harissa you can use more or less depending on how spicy you want that to be. Taste it. One can always add. The meat should be covered with liquid....

A few days I saw a Reels where somebody made chicken drum sticks. All nicely laid with the meat side to the rim side in a frying pan. Next step was to add some garlic and honey, and then the stirring started. Gone all the nice layout... I decided to keep watching and the recipe then caught my attention. It was already almost midnight, I didn't write anything down. Here is what I came up with and that is a keeper. One needs: 2 chicken thighs, skin on with bones (I would guess, no bone no skin would work as well, but I have not tried this 2 tbsp of olive oil 2 gloves of garlic chopped or minced 1 can of diced tomatoes 4 tbsp Harissa 1 tsp of honey 1/3 of a cup of water 1/3 of a cup of low sodium Soy sauce 1/3 if a tsp of smoked paprika (more or less depending on desired spice level) Salt and pepper Pad dry the 2 chicken pieces. Salt and pepper them. Choose a frying pan where you have a matching cover. Add the oil to the frying pan and heat it up. Add the 2 pieces of chicken skin side...