Category Archives: Recipes and How-tos

Fish stew, Bahrain ( Walima cooking challenge)

Walima Cooking Challenge- July 2009 This dish was amazing. I adapted the recipe to make it simpler in execution. I made the sauce ingredients in the food processor. I transferred the sauce into a pyrex dish, placed the fish steaks on the sauce and then baked the fish for about 20 minutes in a hot [...]
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Oregano pesto sauce ( Zaatar akhdar pasta)

I discovered this recipe here in Beirut. The chef who created it is a woman, Marlene Mattar, who was in charge of a cooking segment in the Lebanese TV channel NBN. It is basically a pesto sauce but uses fresh zaatar called zaatar akhdar here as well as flat leaved parsley  instead of basil. Very [...]
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Bohsali (Arabic Sweets artisan bakers)

My daughter wanted to visit the campus of  the Lebanese American University (LAU) and I thought ” and I want to visit Bohsali”. This place is an institution here in Beirut. It had been around forever! How many people can remember going there on sundays for knefe bel-jebn and devouring it at home a few [...]
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