Bint Rhoda's Kitchen

Summer is slipping into fall around here, and I couldn't let it slip quite away before I shared with you a simple-as-summer recipe.  I k...

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 ...

The season of tomatoes is over. I feel quite lost. I miss our simple tomato-cucumber salads of the summer.  I grew up eating salads almo...

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...

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...

It's February now, the dreariest month of the year, in my book. Too cold to go out much, and the sniffles and coughs are passed aroun...

Last week, I ran across this post from the blog Food Republic , describing a collision of two of my favorite foods:  waffles and falafels. ...

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...

Looking for a new cabbage slaw recipe to take to this summer's picnics? Check out this classic Middle Eastern salad, which is a...

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...

Sticky rice, fluffy rice, gummy, gluey rice, bland, wet or crunchy rice.  I have made all of these things. I remember ri...

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...

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...

If you want to cook Middle Eastern foods, you're going to want to have a jar of tahini in your pantry.  This creamy, nutty sesame...

My mother loves to buy lots of produce.  But she also despises wasted food.  I mean, hates it with a passion.  She follows recipes loose...

Do you sometimes make a double (or triple!) batch of hummus and then find that it still sitting in your fridge a week later? I do.  Maybe ...

Do you have a gorgeous head of cauliflower?  Instead of making a cauliflower gratin, try this simple and easy recipe - cauliflower baked in...