Stuffed greens with lamb chops
This dish would be considered an event in a Lebanese household. Served with a bowl of yogurt and some lamb chops it is a meal fit for royalty or your most favorite people. One word about the greens. In Lebanese cuisine, swiss chard is always used interchangeably with grape...
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Egyptian Ful Mudammas (with poached eggs)
With this national Egyptian dish, ful mudammas, I am expressing my solidarity with the long-suffering people of Egypt and wishing them courage and fortitude. Ful (pronounced fool) is Egypt‘s food of the common folk, prepared by street vendors who cook it in huge cauldrons overnight until it becomes meltingly...
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Lamb chops on polenta
I don’t know about you, but my tastes are fairly straightforward when it comes to food. Take these lamb chops, grill or pan-fry them and serve them with any starch (polenta today) and there you go. What do you think? Should we fancy things up a bit? So, the...
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Beet mousse
A French chef, Tiphaine Campet, created a beet mousse in a verrine. I got inspired (plus I love beets) and came up with my own version. Hers uses a cheese that would not be available here and some garlic granules and chives. She dressed her mousse with beet leaves...
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Samar by Stephan Pyles
Photo taken from Stephan Pyles Facebook profile When I moved to Dallas in the eighties, Stephan Pyles was the most famous and talked-about chef; everybody was rushing to his new restaurant Routh Street Café, where the buzz was that “a new cuisine was being invented“. At Routh Street Café,...
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Tri-cheese and arak dip
Anybody watching the Super Bowl? I am not this year, but it is an excuse to make a dip anyhow. Use all your leftover cheeses (can melt them in some arak or wine), add some nuts (pecans) and a bit of arak to the mix. Make it creamy and...
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Mint, cinnamon & Blossom Water, by Ivy Liacopoulou
Reviewing a cookbook is one thing; reviewing a cookbook painstakingly and lovingly created by a fellow blogger whose site I had been visiting for over a year, is quite another! I had been reading Ivy’s blog on a regular basis for a long while, with great interest; she is...
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Beoreg stuffed with onion and cheese
An Armenian roll stuffed with a mixture of golden onions and cheese, perfect as an appetizer or a snack. I snagged the recipe from Anahid‘s cookbook, but had to make a few adjustments. So happy to see Armenian cooks in Lebanon willing to show the rest of us the...
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Arak-spiked chocolate cake
Staying off chocolate for almost 10 days means only one thing: It comes back with a vengeance! This is a simple (but rich) chocolate cake made after one that my mother used to make all the time. The eggs are separated, whites beaten to a meringue, a bit of...
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