Monthly Archives: March 2011

Bocconcinis with strawberries salad

I have had the most wonderful experience recently: I reconnected (after decades!) with my former schoolmates from high school on Facebook. Most of us scattered and relocated all over the globe when the war in Lebanon was raging in the late seventies. We all attended a French school in Beirut, Lycée Franco-Libanais., a school established [...]
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Stuffed swiss chard leaves with lamb chops and yogurt sauce

Today I made some stuffed swiss chard leaves in roughly one third of the time it normally takes to make them. I simply changed one thing: Instead of cutting the leaves into neat four-inch squares, I thought “why not make king-size cigars instead?” I bought two bunches of swiss chard and they were beautiful, with [...]
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Pistachio ma’mouls

The ma’mouls were an Easter tradition in our house established by my grandmother who made them by hand from start to finish. No wooden ma’moul molds for her or  food processor. She used her fingers, knuckles and palms. To shape the cookies, she used malkat, those brass tweezers that I finally found in Beirut at [...]
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