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Category Archives: Lebanese Food
How To Make Baklava In Less Than 10 Minutes
Joumana has the details (Video!)
Lebanese Food iPhone App
The guy who made this app dropped me a line about it. I haven’t tried it yet but it looks good. Check it out.
Bye Bye Chef Ramzi
At least one Lebanese blogger prefers the new guy. I was never a fan of Chef Ramzi’s food, but I actually liked the guy.
The Eternal Hunt For The Best Burger In Beirut
Diana throws her hat in the ring and tells us about her favorites. (Warning: Not suitable for hungry people)
Labneh Pizza
I made this beauty for breakfast and posted it on Instagram. Now I keep getting questions about how it’s made. I’ll tell you the details after the picture.
Ingredients:
1 Lebanese Bread (Pita)
1 Lebanese medium cucumber
A handful of olives
A few mint Leaves
1 tomato
Olive Oil
Labneh
Putting It together:
Drizzle oil over the Lebanese bread (don’t open it) and pop-it in a preheated oven (200 degrees celsius) for 3 minutes. The aim is to have slightly crunchy sides but to keep the center soft.
Meanwhile, cut olives, cucumber and tomato into small chunks, mix all together with a bit of olive oil, shredded mint, and salt and pepper to taste.
Spread labneh on bread using a wooden spatula right after coming out of oven. Drizzle with olive oil, add vegetables and enjoy! (I know I did 
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Global Warming Causing Lebanese "Agricultural Meltdown"
This is not looking good:
Wheat production is down from 60,000 tons in 2009 to an estimated 35,000 tons this year [...] Lebanon will produce 100,000 tons of wheat this year, a 23 percent drop from 130,000 tons grown in 2009. Green leafed vegetables have been frazzled by the sun, and fruits are ripening earlier than usual.
“We’ve a lot of problems this year, particularly with grapes, olives, vegetables, apples, and potatoes,” said Elia Choueiri, head of department of plant protection at the Agriculture Ministry’s Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute (LARI) in Tal Amara Station in the Bekaa valley.
In some areas, the olive harvest is down 50 percent, in other regions 30 percent, particularly in areas where olives trees were not irrigated or had supplemental irrigation. At two vineyards in the Bekaa, around 70 percent of the grapes were lost while vineyards at higher elevations have been affected, particularly white grapes.
Just when you thought the agriculture sector couldn’t get any worse.
Lebanese Blogger Takes Daily Pictures Of Homemade Iftars
Nour will take one picture every day of her Iftar table, which is a great simple idea.
The result is a collection of iftar pictures in a typical Tripoli household. The food is naturally different from and much better than the stuff you get in restaurants in Beirut. (But seriously Nour, fish??)
Yum! Homemade Grilled Lebanese Bread
Pure Genius. Food Flags
Someone had a thought: Why don’t I recreate the flags of countries using main ingredients in their cuisines and take photographs of them? The results turned up to be fantastic. My favorites are the Italian, the Japanese and the Indian flags.
Of course, a special mention goes to our completely edible Lebanese flag, made from Lebanese flat bread, tomatoes, cucumbers and Parsley. I would have also added Labneh to the middle though..
Hello, my name is Mustapha and I've been blogging about Lebanese society, business and politics since February 2005.