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Chocolate Caramel Dessert
An easy two-layer dessert combining chocolate and caramel. Loved by caramel fans — serve chilled.
How to Make Turkish Delight
Make Turkish delight at home with this super easy recipe! This budget-friendly sweet is often served between two biscuits. Here’s how to make it.
How to Make Turkish Delight
Turkish delight made with a detailed recipe! Food coloring can be added as desired, in any color you like. It’s delicious sandwiched between two plain biscuits.
Spinach and Cheese Pies
Spinach and cheese pies — great for breakfast, lunch, a quick meal or a school snack. These pies work any time of day. Here are two delicious fillings using the same dough.
Shaibiyat
A new recipe and a different way to serve shaibiyat with ashta. Shaibiyat is a classic, traditional sweet, but we can always add our own touches, especially in the final decorating stage.
Turkish Kısır Salad
Turkish Kısır salad. Do you know it, or have you heard of it before? It is a little like tabbouleh. Check out the recipe to learn how to make it and the differences between the two dishes.
Cheesy Potato Patties
A successful, delicious homemade recipe for cheesy potato patties — everyone will love them. Potatoes and cheese pair perfectly, here with two types of cheese.
Homemade Sanioura Sweets
Sanioura is a famous sweet from Sidon in southern Lebanon. A delicious dessert made with few ingredients and baked for only a few minutes. Serve plain or fill with pistachios if you like.
Fish Sayadieh (Sayadiyah)
Fish Sayadieh — a very special, elegant dish. To ensure success, two conditions are important: use the proper Sayadieh spice blend and brown the onions until very dark. Full details in the recipe.
Homemade Baklava
How to make homemade baklava with an easy recipe. Fill with pistachios or walnuts according to your preference.
Red Velvet Cheesecake
Red velvet cheesecake — stunning in appearance and even better in taste. Cheesecake lovers will adore this red velvet layered version.
Tiramisu Cake
A coffee-flavored tiramisu made in a round mold — layers of coffee-dipped ladyfingers and creamy mascarpone filling, chilled until set.
Healthy No-Bake Brownie Cake
Healthy brownies... and no-bake! That's two in one: a healthy brownie recipe with low calories and quick preparation. Here are the steps for this innovative and delicious recipe.
Maamoul Mad with Walnuts
Maamoul Mad with walnuts. Here you’ll find the proper maamoul mad dough, which also works beautifully with date or ashta fillings. Of course, you’ll also find the recipe for the delicious walnut filling. Make it for Eid—Eid Mubarak to everyone.
Shish Barak (Dumplings in Yogurt)
A Jerusalem-origin Shish Barak recipe that uses two kinds of yogurt to prevent curdling during cooking. Try this rich, flavorful Shish Barak.
Pistachio Nougat Malban
This homemade pistachio malban recipe is absolutely delicious, even better than store-bought malban. Give it a try yourself, but note that it requires constant stirring.
Shishbarak and Mujaddara
It seems many people like to serve shishbarak alongside lentil-and-rice mujaddara. Here you’ll find two recipes in one :) — both explained in detail and made the traditional way.
Easy Rice Pudding with Milk
Rice pudding is a classic dessert that everyone loves! It can be served at room temperature, but it's definitely best chilled from the fridge. Serve it with a sprinkle of pistachios.

















