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Earl Grey cake

When I saw Chef Ornella Hubel present a recipe for Earl Grey cake, I felt this instant flood of regressive memories; my mother used to entertain her girlfriends with weekly tea parties (such was the life in Beirut in those days) and she always served Earl Grey tea and an English cake with diced candied [...]
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Ashtalieh with pistachios

Do you like to end your main meal with a touch of sweetness? I don’t really want a thick slice of cheesecake; just a little something sweet, not too sweet, just right. Ashtalieh is a cream pudding; it comes from ashta, which is the Arabic word for cream; here, I simply added a handful of [...]
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Valentine cream (muhallabieh with cocoa)

The beauty of some Lebanese home-style desserts is that they are lighter than the average dessert with eggs or butter; take this chocolate muhallabieh for instance; cream is added sparingly to the milk and the dessert is thickened with cornstarch. It is super creamy and chocolaty, but very light. The pink meringue hearts are for [...]
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