Category Archives: cheese

Goat cheese and fresh fig crostini

If you are lucky enough to get some fresh and very sweet figs, what could be better than to savor them as is? This morning I got some goat cheese made locally ambareess and made these crostinis with a zaatar baguette. Toasted them with the cheese and had them for breakfast. Making the cheese is [...]
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Spiced Hoop Cheese (Surquig or Shankleesh)

The greatest benefit of blogging is this:  it has allowed me to meet wonderful people from all around the globe. I met Sylvia Titizian; she is Armenian and Lebanese and resides in the US.  She offered me her grandmother’s recipe for homemade spiced cheese, known as surquig or shankleesh. I was especially touched by Sylvia’s [...]
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Lebanese quesadillas (Kellage)

This  simple and delicious sandwich is one I associate with summers in Lebanon, sitting  by the pool with my friends Jacqueline and Anne-Marie Bassoul and the rest of the gang;  we would order it every single  day after a swim. Crispy and gooey with the softened white cheese inside, our Lebanese quesadillas! What type of [...]
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