Reddit reviews Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies

First, get a good persian cook book: https://www.amazon.com/Food-Life-Ancient-Persian-Ceremonies/dp/193382347X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1540326251&sr=8-2&keywords=new+food+for+life

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My wife puts a couple tbls spoons of Rose Water in our water container, and we drink that. No sugar, and its delicious.

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Buy Tumeric. Costco sells Tumeric pills for like $30/50 pills. You can buy it cheap.

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Dried Mint and dried Shallots. Use the dried mint crumbled in your yogurt. Let the dry shallows soak in warm water, then chop, put in yogurt for a delicious dip.

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Get a pestle and mortar (small as you can find), and dedicate it only to saffron. You'll want to make sure you grind it up so you can get the mileage out of it.

I use saffron for rice quite a bit. Make some basmati rice, take a portion of it (about 1/4 - 1/3) and put it in a bowl with some butter. Take a pinch of ground saffron and put it in a shot glass, then dilute it with just under boiling water (until the glass is 3/4 full). Put it in with the buttered rice and then stir it in with the rest of the (white) rice.

Also, here's my favorite cook book that uses saffron.

http://masteringpersiancooking.com/2014/12/10/khoresht-gheymeh-bademjan/

You didn't mention split peas so it could've just been khoresht bademjan.
https://www.196flavors.com/iran-khoresh-bademjan/

I highly recommend the cook book Food of Life, if you're interested in other persian cooking. https://www.amazon.com/Food-Life-Ancient-Persian-Ceremonies/dp/193382347X

I was fortunate to receive some awesome stuff on my wishlist: a mandoline, Thermapen, and a 7 1/4 quart enameled Dutch oven.

I also got some cookbooks:
Persiana,
Food of Life, and
Ceviche: Peruvian Kitchen

Edit: formatting

If you don't already have this, get it:

http://www.amazon.com/Food-Life-Ancient-Persian-Ceremonies/dp/193382347X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343693916&sr=8-1&keywords=new+food+of+life

Jeweled Rice from this cookbook. Yes, worth it! https://www.amazon.com/Food-Life-Ancient-Persian-Ceremonies/dp/193382347X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

No problem. I'll be posting more vegetarian dishes here (hopefully mainly vegan ones), Iranian cuisine is very veg friendly :) If you're into cookbooks, the famous anad amazing Iranian chef Najmieh Batmanglij has a released a book called Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies that has vegetarian recipes, shouldn't be too hard to veganize them