Tag Archives: milk

Cream pudding (Ashtaliyeh)

Commercial kitchens from Milan to Sydney to Singapour to Dallas are serving Panna Cotta these days. I get the impression that most chefs the world over think that Italy is where the mediterranean starts and ends! I wish they would serve what we call ashtaliyeh. Ashta is the word for cream in Arabic and ashtaliyeh is [...]
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Mulberry and Milk Pudding (Tootiyeh wMuhallabiyeh)

My parents eat four meals a day at a set time; even when  five-ton bombs are landing everywhere, the schedule is respected.  At four o’clock  they  eat  fruits,  puddings and  pastries; I saw my mother consuming supermarket puddings filled with sugar and additives. Shou? Quoi? I will not allow it!  So I made [...]
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Rice pudding with raspberry jelly and raspberry tuiles

The inspiration for this recipe came to me after visiting www.mamina.fr and seeing a chocolate cake topped with a raspberry tuile. The tuile looked so ethereal and vibrantly pink I knew I had to make it. Rice pudding is a humble  dessert in Lebanese cuisine so I figured  I would give it des lettres [...]
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