Grilled peaches with labneh, mint, and pine nuts. You’re only 20 minutes away from the perfect appetizer, dessert, or snack.

Crisp skin, juicy meat, soft rice stuffing inside, crunchy rice stuffing outside, toasted almonds, buttery pine nuts, and soft sultanas.

Kadeh is a traditional Assyrian brioche flatbread with a sandwiched layer of golden-brown roux. Served with tea, it makes an elegant dessert

Booshala is a traditional Assyrian soup, made with yogurt, swiss chard, hot peppers, celery, & rice. It is delicious either warm or chilled.

The flavors of this sumac thyme cake are sophisticated, challenging, and intoxicating, but deep down, it’s just a yummy, buttery cake.

Learn how to brew delicious samovar tea, whether or not you own an actual samovar. All you need is a tea kettle, a teapot, and black tea.

Caraway is traditionally used in some Middle Eastern cheeses, and it makes for a delicious mac & cheese.

Kale and feta fatayer (Lebanese pies) are perfect as a vegetarian main, but they also make a great side dish with grilled meat and salad.

Gurdthu (Middle Eastern yogurt rice pudding) with bay leaves, vanilla, cardamom, and fresh figs makes an elegant breakfast or dessert.

Fluffy lentils and rice with tomato, lemon juice, saffron, turmeric, dried mint, and red pepper flakes, topped with thin slices of lemon.

I’ve put together a formula, as well as a list of ingredients for inspiration, so you can create your own variation on classic tabbouleh.

Ma’amoul is a delicious Middle Eastern stuffed cookie. These are filled with butter-roasted date paste and dusted with powdered sugar.

Tabbouleh Margherita is an Italian spin on classic tabbouleh. It includes lots of basil, tomato, al dente farro, and balsamic vinegar.

This pomegranate fig lamb shank braise is just perfect for taking advantage of fig season. The braising liquid becomes a tangy bbq sauce.

Banadurah harrah is Lebanese tomato salsa. I’ve got two different recipes, one fresh and one simmered (but both super easy and delicious).

Grilling watermelon is the easiest way to use up all those leftover wedges. It transforms the flavor into something deep and caramelized.

Watermelon tastes like cucumber and looks like tomato, so adding it to a Jerusalem salad makes everything just a little harder to pin down.

Learn how to make Middle Eastern flatbread (lawash) from this authentic Syrian recipe.

You can make this stunning vegetarian meze in just 35 minutes per day for just a few days. Time to invite everyone over for a dinner party!

My botanical baklawa is baked with olive oil, soaked with honey, and flavored with cardamom, cinnamon, and rosewater.

Labneh is a Middle Eastern strained yogurt, similar to Greek yogurt, but better than you can imagine. Learn the secret to making it at home.

I’ve tried every trick in the book to bring you a recipe for perfect baba ganoush with plenty of roasted flavor and a dreamy consistency.