Food Flashcards
Hummus
Chickpeas “dip” (my dad’s fav)
Loubieh (b zet)
The green beans (with oil) and you can eat it either with rice or with bread
Ingredients
2 tbsp olive oil
1 medium yellow onion (peeled, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced into half moon shapes)
4 garlic cloves peeled and halved
1 lb flat italian beans trimmed on both ends, strings removed if any, and then rinsed and cut in 2” lengths.
1 tsp salt
Mjadra
Lentils soup
Borghul aa banadura
Grains with tomatoes
The one i made you try with yogurt
Tabboule
The parsley salad
Fattoush
The salad you tried at mary’s with pomegranate sauce
Rez aa djej
Rice with chicken
The one i made when zeinab came
Lebanese meza
When they put several small dishes and we all share them
Mezza is the Lebanese version of an ‘entre,’ technically, ‘entres. ‘
It is about abundance in variety and sharing amongst all who are sitting at the table.
Simple, yet elaborate, mezza is consumed at a pace that allows for conversation, laughter, and experience to be included in between.
3ara2 or Arak
A Lebanese alcoholic drink
They drink it with the meza in small cups
Batata
Potatoes
Banadoura
Tomatoes
Battikh
Watermelon
Khass
Lettuce
Khyar
Cucumber
Rez
Rice
