Category Archives: ice-cream

Spiced popsicles (Meghli popsicles)

My brother Michel who is established in San Fransisco, California, just had a baby, Salim Antonio, his first; Michel requested that a batch of meghli be made at our end here in Lebanon to celebrate the birth. I REALLY wanted to honor the birth of my little nephew, but I just felt like meghli (which means [...]
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Three minute berry ice-cream

I learned  to make this ice-cream from my mother; an ardent Francophile, she lived  almost twenty years in France in the seventies and eighties, touring the country forward, backward and sideways; when she cooked,  it was French cuisine. I saw her make this ice-cream one day in preparation for an upcoming party and was incredulous: [...]
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Tangerine Sorbet

My parents used to entertain frequently at home while I was growing up in Beirut; my mother would often serve this dessert  when tangerines were in season; she would carve the flesh out of the fruit, make a sorbet  and  fill the fruit with it. Yesterday,  I stopped by the Vietnamese market on my way [...]
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