Category Archives: apricot

Apricot jam, solar-powered

Words cannot convey  the heavenly perfume emanating from these abricots, locally picked in the Chouf region (about 40 km south-east of Beirut) . If I could invite everyone to dip their head in the basket and inhale. What an experience! Designers would start selling apricot fragrances.  I would love to smell like a Lebanese  apricot. Everyone [...]
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Apricots with ashta (cream)

Talk about an easy and delicious dessert! I had it in Beirut at a fancy restaurant and my friend Hoda vowed to try to  make it at home.  So, a few days later she invited me to come over to her place in Mosaiytbeh in West Beirut. She assembled it in a few minutes and [...]
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Apricot and milk pudding (muhallabiya amardeen)

Love apricots! However, I have not had good luck with the  fresh  apricots sold in supermarkets. They were so often bland and pasty that I stopped buying them.  I remember my excitement the first time I found the amardeen of my childhood in a middle-eastern store…  we used to tear off pieces and  lick them [...]
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