Marabella Chicken: The Recipe of/for a Winner Trailing Spouse

02/20/2020.Reading time 12 minutes.

Chicken Marabella is an exotic Mediterranean crowd pleaser. It is a simple dish to make, yet it delivers complex flavors as it is sweet, briny, and zesty.

Brownie-cookie Hybrid Hearts : Love Your Self

02/13/2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

In case you have some leftover of crystallized ginger from Christmas time, and you are growing weary what to do with them, I get you covered. These gingery hybrid of brownie and cookies are a perfect fit for Valentines’. Simply put, they are hardcore aphrodisiac delicacies. The bottomless depth of dark chocolate and the tantalizing […]

Makdous (Pickled Stuffed Eggplants): The bejewelled appetizer

01/30/2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

Makdous is a Middle Eastern appetizer that originates in the Levant. Typically, it is made of baby eggplants, stuffed with toasted walnuts, roasted capsicum, red chili, and drenched in olive oil. This is a twisted version that untraditionally contains pomegranate seeds to balance the saltiness and heat.

Indian Pongal:Forging New Bonds in Singapore

01/27/2020.Reading time 13 minutes.

Cooking with a friend is the ultimate experience of forging bonds, that is my long-standing belief. Being a trailing spouse of a diplomat, my stay usually doesn’t exceed a three-year term in any capital we are assigned too. Every time we are transferred to a new destination, we fearlessly venture outside the expat bubble. We […]

Kunafe-Nougat Glacé Cake : The 2020 showstopper

01/19/2020.Reading time 10 minutes.

Kunafe-Nougat Glacé Cake is an ice cream cake that has a Kunafe/Kataifi crust and the filling of Nougat Glace´. The Nougat glace´ layer is a no-churn ice cream infused with rose water and loaded with dried apricots, cranberries, and roasted pistachios. A fluffy and airy treat, this cake bridges the flavors of France and the Middle East.

Kolkas (Taro) Soup : The Quintessential Epiphany Dish

01/13/2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

Taro soup or (Shorbet Kolkas) is a unique Egyptian Dish. This traditional soup is a nutritious one that is associated with celebrating Epiphany feast by Copts (Christians Egyptians).

Rosewater-Pistachio Ghorayebah: Counting Down to Jan. 6th

01/04/2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Happy new year everyone! I couldn’t find better than ghorayehab, my all-time favorite Middle Eastern sugar cookie to be my first post in 2020. If you read my last post, you will figure that my family celebrates Christmas on Jan. 6th. That is the date of the Coptic Christmas celebrated by Egyptians Christians. So please don’t […]

Coptic Orthodox Christmas: Plan B

12/31/2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Happy 2020 everyone! Since I immigrated to the US, I came to celebrate Christmas twice a year with two weeks in between. To many that might sound a bit strange! However, it is simple to explain. Typically, Coptic Orthodox Christians who are by definition the indigenous of Egypt celebrate Christmas on January 7th.