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Eggplant and red pepper pizza
Back in the kitchen; I don’t know about you, but can you envision a weekend without pizza? I can’t. How about this pizza? Instead of the tomato sauce, I made a red pepper sauce; topped it with...
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Meat pies, Lebanese-style (Sfeeha)
If there is one pastry item that deserves a standing ovation from the Lebanese kitchen, it is sfeeha (pronounced s-f-ee-ha with the “a” like apple). What is sfeeha? A little meat pie; made...
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Savory Brownie
Hello, everyone! I’m Alice and I’m guest posting today for my mom. Today my mom made a savory brownie that is both healthy and delicious! My favorite part about this dish is how clearly you can...
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Swiss chard and tahini 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...
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Cheese beoreg in a pan
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....
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Chard tart
I have found myself in Lebanon in times when a war was raging (many times); the latest crisis occurred 36 hours ago when the internet was cut off in the entire country for two full days. I mean, can...
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Spinach and mozzarella pie (Tiella di spinaci)
I was not aware of the existence of tiellas until I struck up a Facebook friendship with Nicola Tarallo, a native of Gaeta, Italy; apparently tiellas are a specialty of Gaeta, a picturesque...
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Three cheese quiche
There is a fancy deli in Beirut called Aziz (they’ve been around forever) and they carry all the French cheeses, American chips and salsa, Italian pastas, Thai curries your little heart could...
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Areesheh turnovers
At a job assignment recently I was in the midst of a group of culinary and restaurant professionals; all were native Lebanese, but each was from a different region. I started asking each one what...
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Quiche
Was it in the eighties that quiche were in vogue? I can’t pin-point the exact date, but I remember everybody being enthralled with quiches, and a slogan “real men don’t eat quiche”; or was it real men...
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