Sebze Lisboa

With lots of love from your dinner garden party fairy 🧚
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A little snap from the food styling session I did in collaboration with 🥕
📸 roasted carrots over mint & dill yogurt with pistachio and pomegranate
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Grilled red peppers with crumbed walnut and tomato dip. garnished with mint and local olive oil 🍅
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Chicken kofte skewers with sumac pickled red onion 🍯
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Lemon & blackberry vegan mousse tarts 🍋 for my crew
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Fresh fruit and big trees 🍒

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The dreamiest summer evening dinner party 🪷

📸 White bean & tahini hummus | Dark greens salad with pecans and figs | Cinnamon spiced couscous | Cashew & spinach cheese with lemon zest | Muhammara

Breakfast on retreat with 🍓

A time of the day to enjoy savory and sweet, pastry and cheese, homemade granola and fresh fruit and the juiciness of all things citrus 🍋‍🟩

White bean and red onion “hummus” topped with olive and cucumber tapenade and FRESH dill from the garden that we planted last month 🌿

The Secret Jardim de Sebze 🌿
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This is a rare post for me as one, I have NEVER cooked octopus in my life, I generally don’t eat it and I don’t often share seafood pics here even when I do prepare it.

BUT… last week on holiday in Spain with my family, I challenged my father (who loves to cook) that I could prepare an octopus dish better than he could. I only had one week to flex my cooking muscles for them and this was the chance 💪

Sautéed in butter and garlic until becoming the perfect amount of crispy, I mixed it with cherry tomato, caramelised onions, a handful of parsley and a giant squeeze of lemon, all served over a bed of fresh spinach 🍋 As we were traveling and staying in airbnbs my spice options were limited, but sometimes a bit of salt and pepper and a dash of hot sauce is all a meal needs.

It turned out so good that I even had to have a few bites 🐙

Celebrated the partner founder in Sebze, .yavasca, with a garden party and a special surprise delivery by our favorite .dose
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Just a juicy little sangria bar cart in our secret garden
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Introducing Sweet Fridays- A day dedicated to all the things we love to indulge in 🧁

Inside the floral matcha and ginger cream is a lemon poppy seed cake, pulling together all the light citrusy flavours that feel like SPRING 🌿

I don’t often share recipes that I prepare with meat, but this was one of my favorite dishes from Turkey and I just tried the recipe for the first time 👩‍🍳

Hünkar Beğendi, nick named Sultans Delight, was a favorite of a 17th century ottoman Sultan who was so vicious he would chop off the heads of a chef when he didn’t enjoy the meal.

Luckily for the chef behind this recipe, the roasted eggplant and creamy yogurt purée topped with tomato marinated and braised meat (beef pictured here), hit the spot.

My partner recently asked me, “what’s with you and banana bread? Why are you ALWAYS making it??!?”

…. and I’m like, “why the hell not?” 🤷‍♀️

This little babe is topped with salted date caramel and pecans 😍



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Black bean and mushroom falafel are making an appearance at an upcoming event but this time they’re taking on the form of mini sliders 😉

Trading in their partner of hummus and fresh veggies for chipotle jalapeño cream cheese and caramelised onions 🔥

Stay tuned for some naughty menu twists 😈

Love me a sunny Lisbon day but these grey afternoons of January call for SOUP 🍜

Pictured here is my absolute favorite, creamy red Thai coconut with pumpkin 💚

It’s SOUPer easy to make 😉 and lasts all week in the fridge. Plus, it’s packed with vitamins, plant protein and antioxidants 💪

Ingredients::
Roasted onion, garlic, pumpkin carrots and sweet potato
Boil and purée with a handful of red lentils, coconut milk and panang curry paste
Garnish with lime, cilantro, sesame seeds and pumpkin seeds

🥥 Enjoy

I’m not normally a sweets person but I really lost my mind this last Christmas. Between catering orders, gatherings with friends, having a three year old and mandatory cookies for Santa, I don’t think a sugar free day went by in our home.

Pictures here is quite possibly my favorite- dark chocolate “bark” layered with honey almonds and topped with pistachios, goji berries and orange zest.

I would actually go as far as to argue that this COULD be healthy 😜

Behind the scenes of working for Sebze 📸

Sebze Lisboa catering offers in person private chef work, catering for small and large events (up to 300 guests), retreat nourishment, engagement and wedding celebrations and drop off deliveries.

Tell us what you’re craving and we’ll be sure it makes it to your table ✨

Whole foods have the greatest colors and textures 🌈

🥗 Winter salad with kale, mint, red pepper, cucumber and pumpkin seeds

🍲 Green lentils with dill, walnuts and honey

🍚 Oven roasted pumpkin risotto with brown rice and chestnuts

Love for all things DIP

Finding my inspiration to cook from the better half of a decade spent in Istanbul means that meze culture is life. If you dine with me you know that filling the table with lots of small dishes featuring an assortment of flavours, textures and colors is my chef love language.

When you let a Californian create the perfect gozleme börek baby.

Extra crispy flakey filo dough layered with cheese, spinach, mushrooms, yogurt, more cheese, a light olive & sun-dried tomato tapenade, roasted smashed potato and well, more cheese 🧀💚

Not even close to being vegan friendly, sorry.

This entire story started with hummus in jars at a farmer’s market when I first moved to Lisbon. Shout out to the fact that like… ANYTHING is possible if you believe in it 🪄

First leaked photo from a day with 💚

Portugal produces some of the best little tomatoes I’ve ever had and the fresh baskets delivered from farm to kitchen at are just 😍

Loved doing a week of brunches for and getting to share all my favorite savory dishes.

🍅 Oven roasted cherry tomatoes over whipped feta and cream cheese

Putting all things GROUNDING on my plate this October 🧡

Sweet potatoes topped with crumbed salty feta cheese and fresh honey 🐝 Sprinkled with a light handful of crushed caramelised hazelnuts

Slight love affair with hummus 💛
This recipe includes a tahini and nut-butter base with smoked paprika olive oil 😏

An up-close look at how good these were 🤤🥕

I always make sure these are part of any menu I create for my clients because they are packed with flavor, are super nutritious and the color is 🤩

Ingredients:
Yogurt (I prefer a thicker option)
Mint
Garlic
Honey or agave
Carrots
Olive oil
Dill
Pistachios
Za’aatar spice mix

Filling the dinner table for with all of my favourite dishes.

Featuring crunchy green lentil and mixed vegetable falafels with spicy tzatziki, caramelised red onion and sumac roasted chicken, charred carrots over a bed of mint yogurt and drizzled generously with za’atar oil and a cinnamon bulgur salad with rainbow chard and nectarine 🍑

I don’t know if there is a beautiful angle in which to capture moussaka from but this meal was 🔥

Made from eggplant, zucchini and tomatoes from the farm of and topped with more cheese than necessary, it was hard to stop at one serving.

The basil on top also came from the farm and is fresh with a little 🐛 nibble.