13 January 2008
Crispy Duck Legs with Apples
In medieval Baghdad, pomegranates were considered food for the poor. I know this because for a college Islamic art class I had to design an Abbasid palace with (...)
11 December 2008
Why I Love Tomato Aspic
I love tomato aspic. It only took me twenty years to figure it out.You see, as much as I've lauded the cooking of the American South, the culinary traditions (...)
13 November 2014
Lida Lee's Cornbread Dressing
In the South, no meal would be complete without some form of cornbread, and no holiday can be had without cornbread dressing. Unlike in the North, where it is (...)
5 July 2015
Seedlicious Bread
Hi there! I can't believe it's been so long since we've seen each other! What have you been up to? How is your summer going? We have SO MUCH to talk about.The (...)
25 November 2012
Kleeja cardamom wheat cookies
I like to a keep a good biscuit around the house. I use the word biscuit in the British sense: not one of those puffy buttermilk biscuits in America but rather (...)
11 December 2008
Qurban lebanese holy bread
Several afternoons a week I rush out of work, heading across town for my Arabic tutoring session, which is really just an excuse for Wael and me to gab about (...)
13 June 2008
Pecan Pie
In my opinion, the only dessert you need for the holidays is pecan pie. Oh sure, I make other desserts, pies and crumbles and cookies and cakes, but really, (...)
21 January 2014
Lebanese meatballs in tahini citrus sauce
If there is a theme for this blog after the arrival of my husband on the scene, it would be that he is quite the eater. "He seems to travel with his stomach," (...)
30 March 2013
Sweet and Spicy Dipping Sauce
My fridge is littered with little containers of this and that. It's a reusable glass jar and tupperware minefield in there. First there's the accoutrements - 3 (...)
24 June 2012
Raspberry cream pie with aunt ruth's recipe
As I write this we are sitting in a hotel room, waiting to take off for our new home in Algiers. All our things have been packed up and either shipped ahead of (...)
27 March 2015
Orange-scented cream triangles with portuguese flavor
One of the "problems" of living with someone who conducts food research as a serious hobby is that we almost never make anything more than twice. Oh that (...)
11 December 2008
Toasted Coconut and Dulce de Leche Cupcakes
Do you have dulce de leche and coconut in your fridge leftover from making a batch of your favorite alfajores?Did you forget that you promised your coworkers (...)
9 May 2015
Josephine's Spicy Fish (Samke Harra)
Ah-he-he-hem. Hello there. Did the month of April just pass by completely unobserved on this blog? Well, let's not dwell on that shall we? Hopefully later we (...)
5 October 2014
Za'atar Cured Salmon
I hate saying that we've been busy. It's one of those American things that has come to annoy me the more I live outside the country, in the same way that I try (...)
12 August 2008
Purple Basil and Pistachio Pesto
A recipe for pesto may not be anything new, but anyone who keeps an herb garden probably has basil coming out their ears by now, and it's time to cut it all (...)
25 July 2011
Adana kebab
I was thinking I wanted to get a good summer grilling recipe up here, but the ones that came to mind--my favorite Aleppo-style kebabs with the spicy tomato (...)
17 August 2013
Apricot Jam
Apricot jam is, in my mind, the pinnacle of jams. Some people may like raspberry or current or strawberry (ick), but really, my favorite is apricot. The (...)
