Monthly Archives: March 2010

Swiss Chard cake

Tweet This is a recipe from Lebanese  chef Marlene Mattar. I am Lebanese-born, which means that I love stuffed grape leaves. I hate stringy, rubbery, stuffed grape leaves. I am appalled at restaurants that are not ashamed to sell them to their customers. They should know better! In Lebanese cuisine, grape leaves are picked when [...]
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Rabbit cookie with passion fruit curd

Tweet These are petit beurre cookies, made because I love LU‘s cookies, now sold everywhere and I found a recipe for these simple butter cookies in Nick Malgieri’s latest book  Light Desserts. The passion fruit curd came about when I saw a jar of passion fruit puree at the market in the freezer section; these [...]
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Lebanese Nachos

Tweet I have lived in Texas a long, long time; and it is virtually impossible to live in Texas and not to become enamored with Mexican and Tex-Mex  cuisine! Nachos are the star of Tex-Mex food! There is no one in Texas that does not love an order of nachos to nibble on at a [...]
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