I know, everyone kind of freaks out about cheesecake. I’m no exception. I’ve been making a really delicious cheesecake for years. The steps are perfect and everything happens almost automatically, until one day I had the bizarre idea of mixing some za’atar into the buttery biscuit base. I tried it and that’s when my experimental …
Cheesecake With Za’atar Pastry and Sumac Berries Read More »
Usually dates do not survive long with me. It’s not that I eat a whole pack of them right away… But when I pass by, I can never resist and always take one on my way to the living room. Then I run back, because I still have to get rid of the core. This …
Date cake: super moist and deliciously chocolatey Read More »
I’m not really the chocolate type. Well, I like chocolate, but I would always give salty things priority. For example, I also prefer salty popcorn to sweet popcorn, for which I really have to listen to something every time, how you can only do something like that. Salty popcorn is awesome, but that’s not the …
Chocolate tart with cardamom & pistachio cream cheese Read More »
“Bass!” is what they said whenever I tried to steal some hot cake. “Bass, ewlay!” I still tried, of course. The expression “Bass!” in this case has nothing to do with an acoustic shock wave or the name of this delicious semolina cake Basbousa, but means as much as ” Leave it!” and “Ewlay” is …