Rack of Lamb with bulgur pilaf
Is there a dish that makes you lose control and that you devour in minutes? When I make a rack of lamb, Nick (son) forgets he is a vegetarian and wants to attack all of the meat the minute he sees it; Alice (daughter) wants to show me how...
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Dilled purses with carrot coins (Ejjet al Shomar w jazar)
In Lebanese cuisine, egg fritters with chopped parsley, fried in olive oil are common and everyday meals; this one uses dill and according to Nada Saleh in her book Splendors of the Levant it is a very old Lebanese recipe used by mountain folks. I made a modern version of...
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Mango and Milk Pudding with pistachios
Marcel Khalife is a Lebanese singer/songwriter who has been called the “Bob Dylan of the Middle East”; his songs never fail to move me to tears and this one called ” My mother” (Ummi) is no exception; the lyrics were written by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. He...
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Pan Bagnat
There is a French proverb I like: Qui se ressemble, s’assemble. (Birds of a feather flock together) All of the French friends I have in the US are from the South, in particular the city of Nice. Coincidence? I guess we have much in common. The mediterranean, for one, the...
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Sour Plums
I saw mounds of these at the Palestinian grocer and my heart skipped a beat. They brought me back to Beirut in the seventies; we used to eat these as a snack after school. We’d buy them from cart vendors. They would appear in the Spring only. Here is the...
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Amardeen Margarita with pistachios
It is 94F today in Dallas; who wants to eat? not me! Give me a margarita, with chips and salsa! (It is Cinco de Mayo today, after all!) Do you know how many Lebanese folks immigrated to Mexico? A LOT! In fact the man who beat Bill Gates in...
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Lebanese Gyros
I have been to Greek restaurants ….once or twice, in Dallas. To say that my knowledge of Greek food is limited is an understatement. (I am learning now through visits to Kalofagas. ca, Kopiaste, History of Greek Food,Tobias Cooks and En Direct d’Athènes). There is a Greek church in...
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Bulgur with tomatoes and red chili
Everybody in America had at one time a box of Rice-a-Roni in their cupboard; well, everybody in Lebanon has a big bin of coarse bulgur and makes this at least once a week; especially if they live in a village or a rural area. I added the red chili...
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Asparagus with yogurt sauce and pistachios
The weather these days in Dallas is as close to perfect as can be; everybody is outside, at the park, at the lake, people are barbecuing and the smell of meat is wafting through the air. I just feel lazy; when it is so beautiful outside, all one wants...
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