Cheese beoreg
This beoreg version in a pan is for these days when the desire to make individual beoregs is muted. This will make enough for a party of 12, as an appetizer. Recipe is adapted from Anaheed’s cookbook. INGREDIENTS: DOUGH: 3 1/2 cups of flour 1 teaspoon of baking powder...
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Choco sticks
Ever tried the Cadbury fingers? They are long and thin cookies shaped like a skinny finger, coated in chocolate (a childhood favorite). These are made with some LU cookies, but any butter cookie will work. The cookies are crushed and the resulting “flour” is used in lieu of regular...
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Simply Lebanese, by Ina’am Atalla
I first saw Mrs. Atalla on a television show a few years ago. Chef Ramzi, a famous Lebanese chef, was touring the world meeting Lebanese expats and immigrant restaurateurs and this was filmed during his weekly thirty-minute documentary. This particular episode took place in London and while Chef Ramzi...
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Sweet Lime Ice
Ever had sweet limes? Sweet limes look just like their cousins the lemons, except they are sweet and delicate-tasting and have zero acidity. In Lebanon they are popular as a snack, whenever they are in season; in the US, they are produced in California I think, but are not...
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Sour grapes
These sour grapes are very small and very sour; the Middle-Eastern store had them on sale. Traditionally, a grape vinegar is made every year in mountain villages in Lebanon with the sour grapes in order to have something acidic to add to salads and stuffed vegetables, in lieu of...
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strawberry muffins
These are extra-light textured, extra-moist, slightly spongy, studded with fresh strawberry bits, doused in fresh strawberry syrup. INGREDIENTS: 2 cups cake flour 1 teaspoon of baking powder 1 teaspoon of baking soda 1/2 teaspoon of salt 4 ounces of yogurt (114 g.) 4 ounces of melted unsalted butter...
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Swiss chard beoreg
The Armenian community in Lebanon has always fascinated me; I had Armenian friends in school, an Armenian dentist, knew Armenian musicians, carpenters, artists; we lived side by side, yet they spoke their own language and wrote in Armenian, a language that seemed mysterious, with letters that could not be...
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Drumsticks with pomegranate-cilantro sauce
If you are interested in saving some time and still having flavorful meals, why not make some cilantro pesto and freezing it? It will keep very well, for months, and if you make a bunch and fill up an ice-cube plastic tray with it, you can pull it out...
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Strawberry soup
Let’s say you could not resist and bought a bunch of strawberries. Even though you still had other fruits at home. This strawberry soup is a way to use up the leftover fruits and to enjoy those luscious strawberries. The other fruits are neatly cut-up and placed at the...
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