• Home
  • Lebanese Cooking Videos are here!
  • Kind Mentions
  • Unsubscribe
  • Subscribe
  • Experience

ma_logo

  • meet maureen abood
  • recipes
  • cookbook
  • video
  • THE BLOG
  • shop!
 
  • facebook twitter pinterest instagram rss feedly bloglovin
 

Best Lebanese Recipes for Easter, a glass of ice water, and a word of thanks

By Maureen Abood On April 15, 2014 · 32 Comments · In Menus
It has always struck me that the first thing that happens whenever someone walks up the front steps and enters the home of anyone in my family, they are welcomed with a tall glass of ice water. It’s our pineapple, our refreshment. As my father used to say: don’t even ask them. Just put the [...]
Read More »
Thanksgiving table

Thanksgiving Menu Ideas

By Maureen Abood On November 26, 2013 · 15 Comments · In Favorite Things, Stories and Recipes
  Rev up your Dansko clogs, my friends. It’s Thanksgiving game on. I suspect you’ve got the star of the show, your turkey ideas, well in hand (will you brine? Fry? Or just let someone else worry about it?). We are brining and roasting two turkeys, mid-sized (Mom says no smaller than 15 pounds each; [...]
Read More »
Vegetarian Grapeleaves, MaureenAbood.com

Vegetarian Grape Leaf Rolls (gluten-free and vegan too…)

By Maureen Abood On June 7, 2013 · 20 Comments · In Gluten-Free, Maza, Appetizers and Dips, Stories and Recipes, Summer, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Hello, cousin. That’s just how we say it, the Lebanese. It’s our expression of closeness to a friend, or a fellow Lebanese who may be a perfect stranger but is no stranger at all. It says: I know you, we share something we both treasure like gold, and you–you are special. I’ve even been known [...]
Read More »
Grape leaves on the vine

How to identify, clean, and store fresh grape leaves

By Maureen Abood On June 5, 2013 · 105 Comments · In Summer, Techniques, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
[…watch my video on how to roll grapeleaves HERE!…] One of the first, and favorite, things I ever wrote about food was a poem about picking grape leaves. There is, it seems, poetry to be found in the memory of being a child following the ladies out to the edge of a parking lot somewhere [...]
Read More »

Favorite Things: Tomato Powder

By Maureen Abood On June 3, 2013 · 12 Comments · In Favorite Things
Fresh, fruit of the vine, the-moment-it’s-picked is always best when it comes to produce of any kind, especially tomatoes. But best isn’t always possible. In fact, up north, it’s only possible for a very short window of the year. Besides, when it comes to something like tomatoes in the form of paste, we’re never using [...]
Read More »

Lebanese Grape Leaf Rolls, a taste of Dier Mimas

By Maureen Abood On May 24, 2012 · 57 Comments · In Chicken, Fish, Beef, Lamb, Christmas, Easter, Fall, Gluten-Free, Grains and Legumes, Stories and Recipes, Summer, Vegetables
[…watch my video on how to roll grapeleaves HERE!…] There is one thing I’ve always thought was a given about grape leaves: that fresh is best. In other words, that leaves picked when they’ve just unfurled from the vine in the spring and eaten immediately make the finest little stuffed rolls. Or so I thought, [...]
Read More »

Technique: How to roll grape leaves

By Maureen Abood On May 23, 2012 · 8 Comments · In Techniques, Vegetables
[…watch my video on how to roll grapeleaves HERE!…] Just like with our baklawa, there is a distinction to be made between Lebanese grape leaf rolls and Greek-style dolma. They’re not the same! Ours are always more slender and smaller in general. How small you go is a matter of preference, as well as the [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Grape Leaves

By Maureen Abood On May 22, 2012 · 30 Comments · In Ingredients, Vegetables
I’ve got a secret. Or at least I used to have one, and like my mother and my aunts and my grandmothers, I carried it around in my purse until spring, right around this same time every year when bloom was the big event each day and the unfurling of tender, young grape leaves was [...]
Read More »

Favorite Things: Kitchen Shears

By Maureen Abood On May 21, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Favorite Things
I am the type of person who will pull hard on a plastic clothing tag to try unsuccessfully to remove it, until I’m forced to walk across the room to a pair of scissors, which snips off the tag cleanly and swiftly. I’m not sure what this says about me, but I tend to keep [...]
Read More »
 
  • Subscribe by Email


  • Send me an email at
    maureen@maureenabood.com

  • maureen abood
    facebook twitter pinterest instagram rss feedly bloglovin

  • Rose Water & Orange Blossoms: Fresh and Classic Recipes from My Lebanese Kitchen
    “A terrific and important book!” — Anthony Bourdain
  • Winner!  Saveur Best Food Blog Awards
  • ingredients

    techniques

    recipes

    video

  • Popular Posts

    • HomeHome
    • Lebanese Knafeh Jibneh with Orange Blossom SyrupLebanese Knafeh Jibneh with Orange Blossom Syrup
    • The RecipesThe Recipes
  • maureen abood
  • IACP
 

Best Lebanese Recipes for Easter, a glass of ice water, and a word of thanks

By Maureen Abood On April 15, 2014 · 32 Comments · In Menus
It has always struck me that the first thing that happens whenever someone walks up the front steps and enters the home of anyone in my family, they are welcomed with a tall glass of ice water. It’s our pineapple, our refreshment. As my father used to say: don’t even ask them. Just put the [...]
Read More »
Thanksgiving table

Thanksgiving Menu Ideas

By Maureen Abood On November 26, 2013 · 15 Comments · In Favorite Things, Stories and Recipes
  Rev up your Dansko clogs, my friends. It’s Thanksgiving game on. I suspect you’ve got the star of the show, your turkey ideas, well in hand (will you brine? Fry? Or just let someone else worry about it?). We are brining and roasting two turkeys, mid-sized (Mom says no smaller than 15 pounds each; [...]
Read More »
Vegetarian Grapeleaves, MaureenAbood.com

Vegetarian Grape Leaf Rolls (gluten-free and vegan too…)

By Maureen Abood On June 7, 2013 · 20 Comments · In Gluten-Free, Maza, Appetizers and Dips, Stories and Recipes, Summer, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
Hello, cousin. That’s just how we say it, the Lebanese. It’s our expression of closeness to a friend, or a fellow Lebanese who may be a perfect stranger but is no stranger at all. It says: I know you, we share something we both treasure like gold, and you–you are special. I’ve even been known [...]
Read More »
Grape leaves on the vine

How to identify, clean, and store fresh grape leaves

By Maureen Abood On June 5, 2013 · 105 Comments · In Summer, Techniques, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
[…watch my video on how to roll grapeleaves HERE!…] One of the first, and favorite, things I ever wrote about food was a poem about picking grape leaves. There is, it seems, poetry to be found in the memory of being a child following the ladies out to the edge of a parking lot somewhere [...]
Read More »

Favorite Things: Tomato Powder

By Maureen Abood On June 3, 2013 · 12 Comments · In Favorite Things
Fresh, fruit of the vine, the-moment-it’s-picked is always best when it comes to produce of any kind, especially tomatoes. But best isn’t always possible. In fact, up north, it’s only possible for a very short window of the year. Besides, when it comes to something like tomatoes in the form of paste, we’re never using [...]
Read More »

Lebanese Grape Leaf Rolls, a taste of Dier Mimas

By Maureen Abood On May 24, 2012 · 57 Comments · In Chicken, Fish, Beef, Lamb, Christmas, Easter, Fall, Gluten-Free, Grains and Legumes, Stories and Recipes, Summer, Vegetables
[…watch my video on how to roll grapeleaves HERE!…] There is one thing I’ve always thought was a given about grape leaves: that fresh is best. In other words, that leaves picked when they’ve just unfurled from the vine in the spring and eaten immediately make the finest little stuffed rolls. Or so I thought, [...]
Read More »

Technique: How to roll grape leaves

By Maureen Abood On May 23, 2012 · 8 Comments · In Techniques, Vegetables
[…watch my video on how to roll grapeleaves HERE!…] Just like with our baklawa, there is a distinction to be made between Lebanese grape leaf rolls and Greek-style dolma. They’re not the same! Ours are always more slender and smaller in general. How small you go is a matter of preference, as well as the [...]
Read More »

Ingredient: Grape Leaves

By Maureen Abood On May 22, 2012 · 30 Comments · In Ingredients, Vegetables
I’ve got a secret. Or at least I used to have one, and like my mother and my aunts and my grandmothers, I carried it around in my purse until spring, right around this same time every year when bloom was the big event each day and the unfurling of tender, young grape leaves was [...]
Read More »

Favorite Things: Kitchen Shears

By Maureen Abood On May 21, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Favorite Things
I am the type of person who will pull hard on a plastic clothing tag to try unsuccessfully to remove it, until I’m forced to walk across the room to a pair of scissors, which snips off the tag cleanly and swiftly. I’m not sure what this says about me, but I tend to keep [...]
Read More »
Copyright 2011-2019 Maureen Abood