Category Archives: Recipes and How-tos

Dragon fruit dessert

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! An easy to put together dessert, if you get some dragon fruits; they are sold in Asian markets. Cut the fruit in half, scoop out some of the flesh, fill the cavity with your mom’s favorite frozen yogurt flavor (here strawberry), cut the fruit in small balls, add a few cut up [...]
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Last-minute holiday ideas

The seven-hour lamb, for the recipe click here. Lebanese couscous with lamb shanks and pearl onions, for the recipe click here Spiced fish, for the recipe click here. Swiss chard cake, for the recipe click here Tangerine sorbet, for the recipe click here. Apricots filled with clotted cream, for the recipe click here. Shredded phyllo [...]
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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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