Lebanese Potato recipes are bright, fresh, delicious. Oh, and so healthy too, using olive oil and flavorful cooking methods to get great results. There are all kinds of ways to give potatoes the Lebanese treatment, with fresh herbs, spices, and cooking methods. Here are five favo … | Continue reading
Lebanese cuisine excels at its vegetarian and vegan recipes. Fresh vegetables prepared in healthy, delicious ways. | Continue reading
Avocado hummus takes the best of two worlds--smooth, luscious hummus and silky, healthy avocado--to create flavor and texture magic! | Continue reading
Baking with yogurt is a must! And often found in Lebanese recipes. Yogurt plays a special role in baking, giving moist, tender results. | Continue reading
Homemade yogurt is very simple and requires just two ingredients. Here are tips about ingredients you need to get started. | Continue reading
This is a delectable way to fill traditional Lebanese fatayer, with feta and kale for a flavor bomb to love! | Continue reading
Best Fatayer Recipes! Lebanese fatayar, or fatayer, are savory filled hand pies. My tricks make fatayar-baking simple and fun. | Continue reading
Killer Kofta Bites are a play on one of the all-time greatest spiced meats of the world, kofta kebab. Kofta bites are loaded with flavor! | Continue reading
Great tahini sauce finds itself on so many of our favorite dishes. Learn the method that results in a smooth, glossy, delicious sauce. | Continue reading
Make a simple, luscious buttercream and decorate with abandon to create this (easy!) Valentine Spectacular Cake. Find rose water for the pink Raspberry Rose Butterceam here. Get the trick to making a heart cake with | Continue reading
No heart pan? No problem. Here's how to make a heart cake with two pans you already have on hand. | Continue reading
Find out more about how to use rose water in cooking and baking! We love this special Lebanese culinary tradition. | Continue reading
Simple 7 Spice chicken yields deep golden color with mouthwatering flavor, and roasts up with minimal prep. | Continue reading
Lebanese Village Salad is a chopped vegetable salad. Mine contains a special twist with chopped apple and a honey vinaigrette. | Continue reading
Tips for choosing and storing most-used produce, especially the ones we buy loose, to optimize flavor and longevity. | Continue reading
Olive oil cake is ultra-tender and moist as oil-based cakes always are, with added flavor from the oil and richness from yogurt in the mix. | Continue reading
This is a must-know appetizer, Easy Figgy Baked Brie. Make for an elegant cocktail party or a quiet party of a family few. Always festive. | Continue reading
Here are my most popular Lebanese recipes of 2021, the recipes you--and there are LOTS of you!--visited most. | Continue reading
This traditional Lebanese butter cookie in a new flavor combo. Chocolate Peppermint Graybeh will be the darling of your cookie plate and swap! | Continue reading
I devised my chocolate baklava recipe for deep chocolate flavor the crisp phyllo texture and buttery nutty notes of great baklava. | Continue reading
This simple "leftovers" way with cranberry sauce is dreamy goodness, a Bonus Cranberry Parfait. Perfect use for Thanksgiving cranberry sauce. | Continue reading
Date Ma'moul are traditional Lebanese shortbread cookies that are molded and filled. Date Ma'moul is made for special occasions and holidays. | Continue reading
Sfeha flatbreads are traditional Lebanese flatbreads topped with highly seasoned meat. They're also made into small square hand pies. | Continue reading
These vegan pie crust recipe tips will get you to fabulous for your pie crusts. These result in flakey, golden crusts. | Continue reading
If you love za'atar flatbread but want an easier way, Za'atar Crackers are for you! Perfect for a cheese plate or to dip in hummus. | Continue reading
Butter toasted nuts are a simple but essential technique for outrageously delicious nuts to finish a wide variety of Lebanese dishes. | Continue reading
Garlic Tahini Eggplant is simply sauteed and dressed with tahini sauce, a Lebanese recipe favorite. Stud with pomegranate seeds and mint. | Continue reading
Follow these few simple tips to selecting beautiful eggplant, for fabulous Lebanese and other favorite dishes. | Continue reading
Raw honey is a delicious and healthy part of every day in my kitchen. What sets raw honey apart from the others? Health benefits + flavor! | Continue reading
Bulgur is a staple of Lebanese and Middle Eastern cuisine, used in dishes like tabbouleh. This grain one of the healthiest you can eat. | Continue reading
What is freekeh? Read why freekeh is such a fabulous grain and a building block of the Mediterranean Diet. | Continue reading
This bulgur lentil soup with mint olive oil fulfills the Mediterranean Diet requisites: legumes, grains, herbs, olive oil. | Continue reading
With so many olive oils to choose from, how to select can be a mystery! Here are 4 tips to choose and use olive oil. | Continue reading
Here are the top 20 recipes of 2020, the recipes you visited most. I know I'll be revisiting some of my own recipes based on these favorites! | Continue reading
The richness of this authentic eggnog recipe is lightened with a big puff of whipped meringue and whipped cream. | Continue reading
Apple pie with stovetop filling comes together quickly, and is accented with a whisper of beautiful flower waters | Continue reading
Apricot Upside Down Cake is made with a brown-butter, brown-sugar topping and soft sponge cake. Orange Blossom in the topping and cake is divine. | Continue reading
Asparagus pickles with grape leaves in the jar go extra-crisp! The grape leaves deliver tannins that impart more crunch. | Continue reading
Lebanese Vermicelli Rice is a mainstay with any grilled meats or vegetables. The broken vermicelli pieces are browned in butter for color and flavor. | Continue reading
Green Beans with Onion and Pomegranate is gently sweetened with pomegranate molasses. Great for summer cookouts or the holiday buffet. | Continue reading
Fatayar, little savory pies, can be a challenge to hold in their classic triangle shape without opening at the seams. Here's how to shape fatayar so they won't open up! The big challenge anyone who has ever baked fatayar knows is this: how to shape those little ditties so they ha … | Continue reading
Fatayar are traditional Lebanese savory pies--and the secret to perfect fatayar dough is here. When I first pursued baking fatayar in earnest, I knew there were problems to be solved to make the perfect little pies I enjoyed from the hands of Mom and Sitto. Even the Middle Easte … | Continue reading
Here is another version of ka'ik, this one a molded shortbread cookie. Buttery, crisp, and beautiful, a tradition for Easter. Why can’t I just leave a good thing alone?! Maybe it’s all of the home-time we’re having these weeks that has driven me to develop a new recipe for ka’ik, … | Continue reading
Peggy's Irish Coffee recipe is strong and bracing, with the flavors of the coffee and whiskey offset by sugar cubes and a thick layer of heavy cream. A Post Written by Peggy Abood Maureen and I have always felt a special kinship to Saint Patrick’s Day which must have originated w … | Continue reading
The Mujadara Pita Roll Up is a great way to eat mujadara, the pilaf of lentils and bulgur with caramelized onions, on the go. Get the mujadara recipe here. Watch how its made here. Mujadara is one of the most versatile dishes in my repertoire, and a very favorite for being that—a … | Continue reading
Potato kibbeh is deeply savory with a lemony spinach filling. Very delicious on its own or served with a garlicky yogurt sauce with mint. We’ve had this conversation before, about dishes that are traditionally made with meat that are then turned into something new, vegetarian-sty … | Continue reading
A great recipe from my sister Peggy, one of the world's great Hemingway devotees. The Hemingway Daquiri is so refreshing, using fresh-squeezed citrus. Blitz all of the ingredients with lots of ice to go for a frozen Hemingway Daquiri. I know when the love affair started. I wasn’t … | Continue reading
Champagne is given the royale treatment in the Kir Royale. A simple way to bring extra color and flavor to your special toasts. Admit it, you’re a sucker for the name too, aren’t you? Anything with the word “royale” in it has got to be worth the effort (and price!). The first tim … | Continue reading