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Liver: some people love it, but let’s be realistic here: most people hate it. I personally love the taste of liver, so I’m not quite sure what it is about ...

I’ll tell you a little story of how I ran into Ameirah online. I was surfing the web, trying to find out what the English words were for libb abyad ...

My favorite childhood snack is…. scratch that. My all time favorite snack is my mommy’s bifteak or bufteak.  This is Egypt’s version of chicken fried steak.  My mommy always makes this ...

I have no idea why these meatballs are called dawood basha.   There was a Da’ud Basha in the Ottoman Empire – maybe he liked meatballs?  Well, story goes that Da’ud Basha loved these meatballs so much, he ate them every day.  I also read online that it is good luck to hide a silver ring in [...]

When I was a kid, I grew up in Bahrain, the little island in the Persian Gulf. Life in Bahrain was safe and predictable, but it would sometimes get a bit boring (the island was so little, so there wasn’t much to do on it in terms of entertainment). Every summer, as an antidote to this [...]

After posting about kofta a few days ago, a few of my Coptic Christian friends urged me to post something that can work for  the Advent fast that lasts for forty days before Christmas, which we celebrate on January 7th. Orthodox Christians have  kind of an interesting fasting schedule. The Lenten fast before Easter requires adherence to a [...]

I seriously lack a sweet tooth.  If there was such a thing as a “salt tooth,” then I would have many of those. Olives are one of my favorite salty treats. People grab cookies for a snack. I grab a handful of olives.  Olives, or zaytoon or zaytun, are considered the “Sultan of the Table” in [...]

I went through a phase where I made a lot of tarts.  And I mean, A LOT. We are not talking one tart here, another tart there. I was on a mission to perfect the art of tart making.  Okay, not really.  I just wanted to use the tart pan we got from our wedding [...]

I want to tell you a little bit about how I came across Faith’s blog. You see, I was browsing the  blogosphere to spot other Middle-Eastern-focused blogs (as I normally do on lazy Sunday afternoons), and came across this post on molokhia. I was under the impression that molokhia is like alien food to Americans, [...]

At least once a week, my mother makes us kofta (Arabic for ‘meatloaf’). No, she doesn’t roll it up in individual bite-sized balls, nor does she fry it like they used to do in the good old days. “That’s too time-consuming”, she says nowadays. And she’s absolutely right. Why complicate a perfectly tasty and simple [...]

Something about Lebanese cuisine already gets me excited. Considering how much I love Middle Eastern food in general, Lebanese food holds a special place in my heart, probably because our awesome wedding caterer was Lebanese, and everyone raves about the glamorous buffet of Lebanese specialties to this day. At the same time, something about Paris [...]