Monthly Archives: August 2009

Apricot tart

This tart was probably born out of the realization that there should be other uses for the homemade apricot jam besides making the children “aroosseh” (pita roll-up) for an after-school snack. I have made the pastry hundreds of times, it is foolproof. I used the jam I made but any good jam will be perfect [...]
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Eggplant dip (Baba Ghanouj)

Eggplant is one of those vegetables that you start out hating as a kid and as an adult you can’t get enough of.  Lebanese cuisine has many outstanding eggplant dishes. This one is by far the easiest to produce and the most popular. It is served at every mezze. Actually the best m’tabbal I had [...]
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Pine nut and garlic sauce (tarator bel-snoobar)

Brought back a stash  of pine nuts with me in my luggage, dutifully declared at customs. Pine nuts in Lebanon are so good! They always bring back fond memories of entire summers spent in Ain Zhalta (Shoof area) treasure-hunting these delightful snoobar. We’d grab a pine cone that seemed promising and feverishly  dislodge the little [...]
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