Tag Archives: milk

Rice pudding رز بالحليب

I don’t know why I don’t make this more often. Everybody loves it and it is also good for you. I saw a handful of rice leftover and I thought “that’s it”, I will make roz bel haleeb!  Picked up Anissa’s book Lebanese Cuisine and voilà! Recipe from Lebanese Cuisine by Anissa Helou, adapted. INGREDIENTS: [...]
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Clotted cream, homemade (Ashta bayteeyeh)

Nothing equals the sheer ecstasy in savoring a full cream ashta. I had the absolute best ashta of my life in Baghdad in the early seventies , at the home of Dr El-Khalidi who ordered it and had it served for us with fresh eggs in the morning. In those days in Irak they had [...]
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Cappuccino and Cookies

I don’t know about you, but I simply cannot resist the call of a frothy cappuccino and some top-of-the line crispy and buttery cookies next to it! So, I do indulge myself and on a daily basis! My friend Phoebe, who worked for Starbucks for years, taught me this little and simple trick: froth the [...]
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Apricot and milk pudding (muhallabiya amardeen)

Love apricots! However, I have not had good luck with the  fresh  apricots sold in supermarkets. They  are so often bland and pasty that I stopped buying them.  I remember my excitement the first time I found the amardeen of my childhood in a middle-eastern store…  we used to tear off pieces and  lick them [...]
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Milk Pudding (Muhallabiyeh)

I read one time the results of a study on what taste men in general were drawn to:  it was “creamy” things, like vanilla ice cream or whipping cream. The study concluded by stating that it was certainly derived for the primal longing for mother’s milk that accompanies men throughout their lives!! No pudding equals [...]
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