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07/31/2026

Mufaraket batata. مفركة بطاطا. Dressed for dinner.

Every culture has worked out that if you combine eggs and potatoes, you get a great meal.

The way my grandma made was frying potatoes, then cracking a few eggs and scrambling them with the potatoes, then sprinkling sumac on top, and we eat it with pita bread.

Spain has tortilla española. Germany has bauernfrühstück. Switzerland has rösti. Colombia has changua.

My version: slightly thick potato slices, soft scrambled eggs, and instead of dusting sumac over the top I turned it into a crisp tuile. Finished with the parsley oil from a few videos back.

Same dish my grandmother made. Just dressed for dinner.

07/30/2026

Every Meal Should Start with This!

Humble, hearty, and the first thing I'd want to put in front of a guest.

07/29/2026

Restaurant-level garnish for 34 cents a serving.

Blanch your herbs 10 seconds, ice bath, blend with oil, strain. That's it — and the 10 seconds is what keeps it bright green instead of muddy brown.

Works with parsley, basil, chives, dill, mint, coriander. Good on everything: soup, veg, hummus, tahini.

Follow to see what we make with it next 👇

07/25/2026

It's the cactus fruit — prickly pear. In Arabic we call it sabr (صبر), which also means patience. And it earns that name: it's armoured in tiny thorns that lodge in your skin, so you learn to handle it slowly, patiently.

Have you ever had Sabr ? Let me know in the comments!

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07/23/2026

In some Arabic dialects, it's called eish — literally, life. We say two people have "shared bread and salt" to describe how deep a bond runs.

I can't break bread without remembering the Flour Massacre — at least 118 Palestinians killed and 760 injured around aid trucks on 29 February 2024 — and the more than 2,600 killed seeking aid in Gaza between 27 May and 9 October 2025, starved and then shot while the world watched.

Now I understand why bread is called eish. Why it's called life. 🍉

07/22/2026

All you need is 10 minutes and a rice cooker to make a delicious meal.

Onion, pepper, carrot, chicken, rice, spices, a little crushed tomato and voila, you have a meal.

Use whatever veg, protein or beans you've got. And go easy on the water, the veg and chicken add their own.

Good Morning!Hope ya'll have a wonderful weekend and remember, be kind to each other.
07/18/2026

Good Morning!

Hope ya'll have a wonderful weekend and remember, be kind to each other.

07/17/2026

Struggling with the new lights kit, but I think we are onto something.

Let me know what you think, and how can I make it better?!

07/16/2026

There's a cheat code in Bilad al-Sham.

Tahineh. Tahina. Tahini — whatever you call it, it makes everything better.

This one is chicken, cauliflower and rice.

Nothing here is complicated:
🥬 Cauliflower first — it takes the longest
🧅 Onions crisped until golden and sweet
🍗 Chicken sliced thin, spiced with cumin, coriander, salt, pepper and a little cinnamon
🔥 Layered together and into the oven
🥄 Tahini mixed with yoghurt, lemon, salt and garlic

The sauce is what pulls the whole plate together.

Also — new camera angle this time. Let me know what you think in the comments. 👇

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