Last hour Thanksgiving ideas
Light but filling, this couscous lined with zucchini will complement a roasted turkey. For the recipe, click here. Baba Ghannouj or eggplant dip can be prepared in less than ten minutes (if you use my speedy method). For complete instructions, click here. Comfort food straight from Lebanese mountain villages,...
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Thanksgiving ideas
Pumpkin hummus is lighter-tasting than the usual one with garbanzo beans, yet it is just as addictive. Click for the recipe here. Spiced rice is used as a stuffing for chicken or turkey. It is flavorful, not spicy-hot. Minced lamb is added to the rice and it is garnished with...
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Chocolate pudding in a jiffy
OK. This is no masterpiece. It is a plain, simple, speedy chocolate pudding that takes 10 minutes from concept to execution. It takes less time and effort to make than getting in the car to buy the ready-made ones at the supermarket. INGREDIENTS: 4 servings 2 cups of milk...
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Muhammara and cheese cigars
Suppose your friends are coming over and you want to prepare something that you can store in the freezer and pop in the oven on the day of your dinner party? These muhammara/cheese cigars are light, crispy, cheesy (yet not too much) and have the addictive taste of muhammara...
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Eggplant dog
My best wishes on this Eid Al-Adha celebration. I got some lovely little eggplants and stared at them for a while; I did not feel like stuffing them with meat and rice like my ancestors had been doing for hundreds of years. That’s when I decided to make eggplant dogs,...
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Chicken and wheat porridge
Hreessey (pronounced hur-ee-ssay) is a traditional porridge-like dish with few ingredients. It is the epitome of comfort food in Lebanese villages, especially when the weather turns cooler. Its main ingredient? Wheat berries, cooked for a long time till popped and silky-soft in a broth of lamb and (or) chicken....
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Grape Molasses drink
Grape molasses is a fascinating food. It is a sweet-tasting molasses; a natural sweetener made from the fresh grapes harvested in the fall. It was used exclusively in Lebanese villages before the widespread availability of refined white sugar. Its nutritious benefits are immeasurable. It is very rich in minerals....
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Pasta with squash, cheese and pecans
This is a recipe I plucked from a French blog C’est Moi qui l’ai Fait. It is very forgiving of substitutions, so I used queso frescoinstead of the goat cheese in the recipe; I also used pecans instead of hazelnuts. This pasta is sweet. Yet I did not add...
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Jellab pudding
What is jellab anyway? Jellab is an extremely popular drink in Lebanon. It is sold everywhere, most notably at juice stalls and at the beach. It is not simple to make jellab at home. Why? It requires incense (bakhoor). Not easy to find in your local supermarket! It requires...
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