Bint Rhoda's Kitchen

Aywa, aywa, fil mishmish , I would hear the adults say, with a grin and a shrug, when discussing a time frame for when the city would ...

Yesterday's flavors, today's food. That has been on my mind the last few months, as I've been pondering what to do next ...

So, in my last post, I confessed my bone broth craze. I've put into baby's cups.  I make soups and stews with my homema...

If you are looking for a rich, savory, satisfying meal, I have one for you today. Spiced lamb meatballs, browned up in a skillet,...

This ancient soup is the stuff of stories. Maybe you've heard this one before: A long time ago, a woman carries two babies inside of...

I have been sitting on this recipe for a little while.  I wanted to get it just right. After all, musakhan is as important to Palestini...

Many years ago, I had a summer job in a grocery store deli in the rural Wisconsin. It wasn't a glamorous job. I rode my bike to the...

In the Middle East, meat is sacred food, feasting food, celebratory food.  And while every day dishes are often vegetarian or feature ve...

Turkish onion salad - or Arabic salsa, as my mother likes to describe it to foreigners - is an easy way to bring a sense of adventure to you...

Halaweh, (also called halawa, halwa, halva)  is a dense, sweet, nutty-tasting confection, made with many variations throughout the Midd...

Fresh and verdant, light and lemony, there is so much to love about tabbouleh, the classic Middle Eastern salad.  And as much as I enjo...

There are two kinds of people: those who love and those who hate leftovers. My mother insisted on cooking huge batches of food, so we a...

Any day that my Palestinian mother fried up a batch of these garlic and onion-scented cauliflower pancakes was a good day for me.  Serve...

Sometimes a little time produces a lot of joy.  For us, this is a dish of joy.  Palestinians are known for their love of stuffing things w...

The leaves are piling in drifts around my house, forming crunchy alleys for my children to march through.  It is time to pull blankets mo...

  These Middle Eastern savory meat pies, topped with toasted pine nuts, are a traditional Arabic dish, popular throughout the Levant ...

  Fall brings apples:  hot mulled apple cider, apple dumplings from market stands in the mountains of Western Pennsylvania, cinnamon-sce...

Summer is on its way out, here in Virginia.  In the mornings, we button up cardigans and light coats, and clutch mugs of warm tea.  But by t...

 Salad doesn't get any simpler or more delicious than this:  ripe tomatoes, and crunchy cucumbers dressed with a squeeze of ...

  Now if you love hummus, (and I know that a lot of you just can't get enough hummus), you have got to try its smokey cousin:  egg...