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29/01/2025

Happy Lunar New Year to everyone celebrating. It’s the year of the snake 🐍 one of the most intelligent creatures in the lunar calendar.

Anyone born in the year of the snake, take every opportunity that comes your way. It’s your golden year 🧧🥢🎉🍾🎊🎁❤️🐍

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28/01/2025

Nice apple turnovers

25/01/2025

Mmmmmm I love this salad

09/01/2025

Lebanese Spaghetti with Yoghurt - macaroni bi laban
(Serves 2-4)

It’s believed this dish was inspired when using leftover garlic yoghurt sauce for Shish Barack. It’s also been said to be a healthier version of an Alfredo pasta sauce. This pasta dish is quick to make & eaten warm or cold (great for the summer). You could also change the pasta shape too if not using spaghetti.

Ingredients:
250g spaghetti/ pasta shape
1 fat garlic clove, crushed
1 tsp seasalt or to taste
400mg natural/ Greek-style yoghurt
1 tbsp ghee or EV olive oil
25g pine nuts/ flaked almonds
Small bunch parsley/ coriander, finely chopped
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp allspice

🍝Follow instructions on how to cook pasta in boiling salted water.
🥣 In a large bowl for serving, mix crushed garlic with salt making a paste. Add yoghurt & stir well using spoon or whisk. Keep aside.
🍳In a small frying pan, add ghee/ oil then add fresh herbs & fry for 2 mins, add pine nuts & fry another 2-5 mins until pine nuts are lightly browned.
🎁When pasta is ready, using tongs add to yoghurt bowl making sure to reserve the pasta water. Mix pasta with yoghurt. If it’s too thick, add a little pasta water to a consistency you desire.
🎩To serve, decorate with parsley & pine nuts then drizzle the oil over the pasta. Serve immediately.
‼️Optional - you may wish to add chilli flakes, Frank’s chilli sauce or any fresh chopped chillies. If you wish to enhance further, some people add fried minced meat with onions that’s cooked & included with parsley & nuts them topped over the pasta & served.
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05/01/2025

Does anyone know what this national dish is called? I believe it’s Malaysian

30/12/2024

15 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About Lebanon

1. Lebanon is home to the ancient city of Byblos, considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the birthplace of the modern alphabet.

2. The country’s name has remained unchanged for over 4,000 years, making it one of the oldest country names in continuous use.

3. The Cedar of Lebanon, a symbol of national pride, has been referenced in historical texts like the Bible and used in ancient shipbuilding by the Phoenicians.

4. The Lebanese diaspora is one of the largest in the world, with millions of Lebanese descendants living abroad, often outnumbering the population within the country.

5. Lebanon has 18 officially recognized religious sects, making it one of the most religiously diverse countries in the Middle East.

6. Beirut, often called the "Paris of the Middle East," was once a hub for culture, fashion, and intellectualism in the Arab world.

7. Lebanon is known for its exquisite cuisine, including dishes like tabbouleh, kibbeh, and manakish, which are celebrated worldwide.

8. The country is famous for its wine production, particularly from the Bekaa Valley, an area with a winemaking tradition dating back thousands of years.

9. The Jeita Grotto, a system of interconnected limestone caves, is a natural wonder and a finalist for the New Seven Wonders of Nature.

10. Lebanon was the only Arab country without a desert, boasting lush mountains, forests, and a Mediterranean coastline instead.

11. The Baalbek temple complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contains some of the largest and best-preserved Roman temples ever built.

12. The Lebanese flag is the only one in the world featuring a tree (the Cedar of Lebanon) as its central symbol.

13. Skiing in Lebanon is a unique experience, with resorts like Faraya Mzaar offering views of the Mediterranean Sea from the slopes.

14. Lebanon hosted the first and only Winter Olympic Games delegation from an Arab country in 1948.

15. The national dance, dabke, is a traditional folk dance performed at celebrations, symbolizing unity and cultural pride.

28/12/2024

Roasted chicken with chestnuts & lamb rice (Serves 6)

𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓝𝓮𝓮𝓭:
𝙲𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚗
2.2kg whole chicken
2 onions, wedges
2 carrots, 1cm slices - unpeeled
2 large celery sticks, 3cm slices
2 cups water
1 lemon cut in half
2 bay leaves
1/2 tsp each - ground allspice & black pepper
1 tsp salt
1 tsp fajita or chicken seasoning
25g butter
2 tbsp light olive oil
𝚁𝚒𝚌𝚎
400g minced lamb
2 tbsp light olive oil
1 large onion, finely chopped
2 cups basmati rice, washed & pre-soaked
1 ltr chicken stock
50g pine nuts
1 tsp salt
1 tsp each - ground allspice & cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
360g vacuum packed chestnuts (we like Merchant Gourmet)
2 x 25g butter
1/2 tsp brown Demerara sugar
200g mixed nuts (raw cashew, flaked almond, red peanuts, pistachios, etc)
50g pomegranate seeds
30g parsley, finely chopped
𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚢
50g butter
30g plain flour
Stock from roast chicken (approx 500ml)
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

🔥Pre-heat oven at gas 9/240C/220fan
🐓In tray place chicken, under skin breast add butter, cover chicken with squeezed lemon & place inside cavity with bayleaves. Rub S&P, seasoning & olive oil over skin. Add onions,carrots & celery around chicken, roast 30 mins.
⏳After 30 mins, lower gas 6/200C/180fan, baste & add water. Roast 1 hour until chicken cooked.
🍳In frying pan, add butter on low heat, add nuts, fry 5 mins until golden - transfer to plate. Using same pan, add butter & chestnuts, add sugar & fry 5 mins. Add plate to cool.
🍚In medium pan on high heat, add oil & lamb, fry until browned, add onions fry 3 mins, add p-nuts. Add salt, allspice,cinnamon,nutmeg & fry 2 mins. Drain rice & add pan, stir 1 min, add stock, stir again & cover - simmer 25 mins until water gone. Get cloth for lid & cover rice & absorb steam.
🥫Gravy - in small pan on low heat, melt butter with flour to make rue, add stock from chicken & add more in hot water if needed. Keep stirring with spoon/whisk until smooth, add Worc-sauce.Taste & simmer 10 mins.
🍛 Serve - place rice on large platter as a bed, add chicken on top cut into pieces, place chestnuts in centre, sprinkle other, sprinkle pomegranate & parsley!

24/12/2024

Mummy Najat with one of her favourite nurses at the renal dialysis unit looking all very Christmasy! Merry Christmas to everyone and hope you get every year of happiness and for peace on Earth 🙏❤️🎄🧿💙

🎄 🇬🇧 💃 💙

23/12/2024

How to wash sequent items darling 🤗

17/12/2024

Prep ahead salad

17/12/2024

This kid is going to be a gentleman when he grows up 🥰🙏❤️🧿

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• Maqloubeh • Palestinian “upside down” rice in minced lamb (serves 4-6) Maqloubeh means “upside down”in Arabic. Mummy dear was taught how to make Ma’loubi or Maqloubeh back in the 1980s by a wonderful Palestinian friend 🥰😋 There are many variations for this Palestinian dish of using chicken, lamb, beef or even vegetarian & a variety of vegetables. This recipe has roasted cauliflower, minced lamb, basmati rice & warm spices of Middle East. It’s served upside down with salads & plain yoghurt. 1 cauliflower head, florets fried or roasted 1 tbsp ghee/ EV olive oil 400g minced lamb 1 large onion, chopped 6 fat garlic cloves crushed 1 tsp salt or to taste 1 tsp allspice 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1 cup/250g basmati rice pre-soaked For rice 1 tsp salt or to taste 1-1.5 ltr hot water 1 small bunch parsley/ coriander finely chopped 1/2 pomegranate for seeds 🎁 cut cauliflower into florets & fry or bake until golden brown. I like using EV rapeseed oil when baking 💙 In non-stick deep pan to use for Maqloubeh, fry with oil/ghee, onions, garlic on medium high heat for 2-4 mins then add meat & fry until browned. Add allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg & salt to taste. Mix well & cook for 5 mins. Set meat in plate to add later. 🎄 Using same pan, ideally line bottom of pan with 1 round sheet greaseproof paper or add more ghee/oil so it doesn’t stick to bottom. You can remove sheet after cooking before decorating. 🥦 add the cooked cauliflower in base of pan. Next add meat as layer then add rice next layer. Poke a hole using end of wooden spoon then add hot water to come to surface. Maybe 5cm or tip of your index finger. 🔥Bring the heat up to boiling then when reached, lower heat to simmer, cover with lid & simmer 30-50 mins. When cooked use towel or kitchen paper to cover under lid & rest 5-30 mins to absorb steam. 🙃When ready to serve, use blunt knife to go round sides, add serving dish on Tok & turn it over carefully (it’s hot!!!) tap