Tag Archives: cheese

Red Pepper and cheese flatbread

For every Lebanese expat, there is always the fond recollection of buying a kaak from a cart vendor, having him fill it up with zaatar or picon cheese and savoring its crunchy, sesame-laden goodness on the go. Ever-enterprising Lebanese have now commercialized this street food and one can stop at a kaak store and order [...]
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Armenian cheese pie (Porag)

Lebanon is made up of many cultures and  the Armenian community is  particularly interesting, rich in history and traditions; yet known only superficially by most people here who have lived for generations side by side  with Armenian-Lebanese. This is one of  my first attempts at the wide wide world of Armenian pastry; the dough is [...]
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Zucchini flowers

Tonight we had a visit of relatives, one of those early evening visits as was customary in Lebanon in the olden days, when people paid each other impromptu visits. I knew the visitors were all our cousins, just had no idea how; I asked one of the visitors,  Selim, a former judge known  for his rigorous mind, to [...]
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