Need I say more? I don’t know about you, but I am a grazer. In fact, my favorite meal is a mezze type of meal, small bites, a bunch of appetizers and other snacks. Not that I can’t decide on what to eat, but more of a non commitment issue to one entree per se. So while my kids snack …
Mastic Crème Brulée
If I had to rank my favorite desserts, crème brulée would definitely be in the top three. No, wait. It would actually hold the Nº 1 spot. I love the variety of flavorings that can be infused, I love cracking the crusty caramelized sugar layer with the back of the spoon and digging for the silky sweet custard under it. …
Date and Macadamia Nut Cookies
These are the perfect holiday cookies. Bite size, soft, crunchy, subtly sweet, makes a great tea or coffee side kick and is totally all around awesome. I was making some pistachio filled cookies the other day and had too much dough left. So I decided to make these date filled cookies using a tiny mold. Now you have to have …
Pistachio-filled Semolina Cookies and Naatef Marshmallow Mousse
Hmm.. Gooood. My absolute favorite cookie!! I love these little things, and I had to stop myself from finishing the batch I was making for my son’s school. They had a great idea this holiday season. A cookie buffet for the teachers where they could each fill a box from cookies of their choice. There were 75 volunteers and each …
Red Wheat Berries with Raisins and Nuts
I have a confession to make. I’ve been “trying” to lose my baby weight now for a whole year (that is after the second baby) and it seems to want to stick around. I have read and watched and researched all that needs to be known about the subject, in the hopes that I would start shedding it magically without …
Orange Blossom Sahlab Drink
The weekend is rainy and gloomy. It’s the kind of weather that begs you to cuddle up with a hot beverage and read a book or watch a favorite movie. At my house, I’ll just settle for the hot beverage and some sweet bread sticks for dipping. No watching movies or reading, at least not when two toddlers are up …
Brown Turkey and Conadria Fig Jam
In my kitchen, August has officially been declared “Figstravaganza Month”. If I think of one more use for figs this season, I might actually faint. Luckily, these beautiful fig jams are a very traditional way of using figs back home. Well this and also dehydrating them for use in the snowy winter months. The best snack my grandmother would offer …
Almond Blancmange with Caramelized Figs
The other day, I was reading about some recent research on the formation of memories. It turns out that a special protein, in the “taste center” of the cortex, is actually responsible for this process! Well, I am grateful for producing plenty of the PSD-95 (the name of that protein if you wanted to know). When I was about 7 …
Pistachio and fruit stuffed blinis
The only thought that came to mind as I looked at this pointy huge fruit is: “Don’t judge a fruit by its skin.” When my dad brought it in, I have to admit I was a little hesitant to unwrap it. It’s called “durian“, and the sight of it would deter you from buying it at the market, but I …