Category Archives: cheese

Stuffed piquillos

Piquillo peppers are tasty and  mild peppers originating in Spain; I buy them in a jar. I had seen recipes for piquillos stuffed with cheese and served uncooked. These piquillos are stuffed  with a cheese and egg mixture  bursting  with herbs and spices and baked briefly until they puff up. Any roasted and jarred peppers [...]
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Carrot and cheese cake

Imagine a moist carrot cake in which the cheese frosting is baked with the cake, instead of being plopped on top as it usually is. I used  homemade labneh instead of cream cheese, but they are interchangeable here. The cake can be made with a few ingredients, or enriched with almond flour, pistachios, raisins, banana purée, [...]
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Pull-away cheese rolls

  There is a delightful tradition in the Middle-East called sobhiyeh, (meaning morning), which means a morning get-together. Our neighbors in the Chouf mountains would often invite us to a sobhiyeh (and we would reciprocate) and this would always entail cups of Turkish coffee being served and lots of pastries (savory and sweet) and of [...]
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