Monthly Archives: November 2009

Roasted Chestnuts with butter and honey

Tweet I used to love winter time in Beirut for one main reason: Cart vendors would start selling chestnuts! It was so fun to get a handful wrapped in a piece of torn newspaper and go eat it at home still hot and mash it with butter and honey!  So I am going to recreate [...]
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Olive roll (Mabroomeh b-zeytoon)

Tweet Olives figure at the top of my list of favorite foods. I can eat them every day, several times a day, and not tire of them. I grew up in Lebanon, where olives figure at every meal, including breakfast. It is inconceivable for a Lebanese to go out to eat at any restaurant and [...]
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Lamb Shanks with peas and carrots (Yakhnet al-bazella u jazar)

Tweet Whenever I meet Lebanese expats I hear them  fondly  mention the yakhneh (stew) of their mother or grandmother. There is a huge portion of the Lebanese culinary repertoire dedicated to these yakhneh, encompassing every vegetable under  the sun and almost always with the same basic  formula: a stock made of lamb shanks (or shoulder [...]
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