This is a famous Lebanese breakfast dish and meze dish, although it is made throughout the Levantine Arab world. This version is very different than the Egyptian one, also famous, and called the Egyptian national dish, which is more like a soupy stew. Although most common for breakfast, Arabs will eat it at any time […]
Black-eyed Peas and Tomato Salad for Meze Table
September 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Although this preparation of black-eyed peas and tomatoes is called a salad, in Lebanon it is usually an addition to the spread of various dishes found on a meze table. This salad is perfect for an end of the summer meal. Serve it with romaine lettuce leaves to be used as scoops. For ease of […]
Meatballs and Rice in a Middle Eastern Way
February 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
This preparation popular in Lebanon and Syria was not always so. In the eighteenth century Damacenes, like all Syrians, preferred wheat and switched to rice and other grains only when wheat became too expensive or was in short supply. But rice was a relatively pricey import from Egypt and was considered a luxury and never […]
Cherry and Lamb Skewers on the Grill
May 3, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Around the now sad and destroyed Aleppo in Syria is a dish fondly remade as best they can by Aleppines in exile and Syrians in general that will remind them of the good times once had. In fact, I first had kafta bi’l-karaz, grilled ground lamb and cherries on skewers, in Syria some 25 years […]
Middle Eastern Meze Bring Many Cultures to the Table
November 2, 2014 by 2 Comments
In the Middle East food is shared and one place it is shared is on the meze table. Meze are small samplings of prepared dishes that make a meal. They are not appetizers, nor tapas, nor hors d’oeuvres but are actually more philosophically related to the Scandinavian smorgasbord. Food is shared in another way. The […]
Upside-down Casserole Brings some Memories and some History
July 15, 2014 by 1 Comment
Recently I’ve been enjoying myself by remaking many of the recipes on my web site www.CliffordAWright.com that don’t have photographs. Some of those recipes were posted so long ago–some from the late 90s–that photography wasn’t that important in web sites and digital photography was in its infancy. Today is different. One dish I wanted to […]
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