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Category Archives: Stories and Recipes
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie, a hint of Rose Water, & Mom’s Best Crust
Photos. Recipe. Perfect Pie, with a shorthand summary of my Mom’s Best Crust that makes it all so simple. Need I say more? Yes, just this: Bake one, and enjoy. Strawberry Rhubarb Pie, with a hint of Rose Water The … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged pie, pie crust, pie plates, pies, Rhubarb, Rose Water, Strawberries, Strawberry, strawberry rhubarb pie
9 Comments
My Mom’s Best Pie Crust
Everyone who knows my mother knows that the hallmark of her character is grace. Pure grace. This is reflected in her face, her home, her kitchen, her conversations. And her pie. I love watching people taste my mom’s pie for … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes, Techniques
Tagged Dessert, Pastry, pie, pie crust, pie plates, pies, Rhubarb, Strawberries, Strawberry
14 Comments
Pie Plates: The best of
First off, the very best pie plate is any pie plate. Because any pie plate means there’s going to be a pie, and that’s the important thing. That said, there are several facets of a pie plate that I pay … Continue reading
Lebanese Knafeh Jibneh with Orange Blossom Syrup
The knafeh was the saving grace that morning. We were driving from Beirut to Tripoli on a quest, my quest, to see the famous Hallab bakery at its source. There had been the friendly assistance of a Lebanese chef in … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged kataifi, kenafeh, knafeh, knafeh jibneh, kunafeh, Mazaher, orange blossom syrup, Orange blossom water, Pastry, Phyllo, pistachios, shredded phyllo
4 Comments
Orange Blossom Simple Syrup recipe
So many Lebanese pastries rely on orange blossom syrup for flavor, for fragrance. And though the syrup is truly simple in its method and short ingredient list, there are a few different approaches to it: some with more sugar than … Continue reading
Posted in Ingredients, Stories and Recipes
Tagged Baklava, Baklawa, kanafe, kataifi, knafeh, knafeh jibneh, kunafeh, Mazaher, Orange blossom water, Pastry, Rose Water, simple syrup
1 Comment
White Asparagus with Pistachio Oil & Lemon
When the weather was frigid this past winter, all I could think of was the thick, dark drinking chocolate I drank when I traveled in Spain years ago. But now that it’s spring, and winter is trying (not hard enough) … Continue reading
Posted in Ingredients, Stories and Recipes
Tagged asparagus, pistachio oil, pistachios, white asparagus
11 Comments
Candied Kumquats Recipe (over ice cream)
It was the word “sheriff” that got him. As in, I hope I don’t get arrested by the sheriff doing this. Call it a cheap trick, but when a kid has his head in the iPad and is so mesmerized … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged candied fruit, candied kumquats, Citrus, Ice cream, Kumquats
6 Comments
A visit to an olive ranch, and tasting Sonoma County
It was a misty morning, but the big, billowing clouds just made the Sonoma landscape that much more beautiful and moody. Thankfully, living up north in Michigan for the last couple of years have trained me from my city-style inclinations … Continue reading
Kishk Soup with Garlic
There were so many striking things about the day I ate kishk for the first time. As I mentioned, kishk is not something I’d ever heard of, let alone eaten, until recently. I tasted a steaming bowlful after a winter … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged burghul, cracked wheat, Garlic, Kibbeh, kishk, kishk powder, kishk soup, Laban, Labne, labneh, Lamb, yogurt
15 Comments
Ruby Red Grapefruit-St. Germain Mimosa
By now it’s crystal clear that St. Germain tastes good with just about anything you can think of to pair it with. If you ask my brothers, it’s even better on its own, on the rocks, when late evening comes … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged beverages, breakfast, Brunch, Champagne, Cocktails, Drinks, Easter, Grapefruit, Grapefruit-St. Germain Mimosas, Menus, St. Germain
2 Comments
Lebanese Glazed Sweet Bread, Ka’ik
At first everything seemed so small, which probably had to do with the narrowness of the streets and the way the homes were built almost up to the road. It was the second day of the trip to Lebanon that … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged Anise, Easter, Easter bread, Easter cookies, kaak, kaik, mahleb, Rose Water
13 Comments
Pink Deviled Eggs (laban & mint), for Mrs. Smith
Whenever there are cars in the driveway across the way here on Main Street, more than one car, I start to get worried. Mrs. Smith hasn’t been feeling well, not so surprising at her age, and she keeps quiet over … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged deviled eggs, Easter, eggs, hard boiled eggs, Laban, Labne, labneh, Mint, Na'na
7 Comments
Lebanese man’oushe, za’atar flatbread
My brother Chris was the first to speak to me of the man’oushe. Every time he returned from a trip to Lebanon I wanted to sit him down and discuss, in detail, every bite of food he’d eaten. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged Bread, breakfast, Flatbread, manoushe, sesame seeds, za'atar
31 Comments
Lebanese cheese:Jibin, with habibi-love
I thought that the jibin was not going to be the multi-day, better-watch-a-video-to-see-how-it’s-done kind of cheese. Such a video does not even exist, by the way, because jibin is supposed to be so simple that nobody, I mean No One, … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged cheese, cheesecloth, jibin, jibneh, jibneh arabieh, Lebanese cheese, Syrian cheese
13 Comments
Raspberry Cream Scones with Rose Water Glaze
I like to think of it as my first act of food writing. It was just a few sentences on the back of a postcard (I’ve loved postcards for a very long time), sent home to my family on my … Continue reading
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