LeSauce

vegetarian kibbe

Filling, flavourful and special in appearance too, all golden and presented family-style in a casserole dish.

tabbouleh

I would never have known to make and use a Lebanese 7-spice powder which makes for a fantastic, and I'm trusting, very authentic tabbouleh.

spicy roasted tomatoes

Tomatoes slightly tangy--true to their nature, but complex with sweetness, smoky and spicy. Some bites will be speared, some smeared and every last drop sopped up.

labneh (lebanese yogurt cheese)

Make labneh and you're making cheese! You are a superstar!

eggplant and walnut pesto

This pesto has a lot in common with bread and butter.

a very LA salad

Don't turn your nose up if you're "so over" these sprouts. This is a salad to love long-term.

boston lettuce, oven-dried olives, feta and roasted chickpeas

boston lettuce with oven-dried olives, feta and roasted chickpeas

For this, my new favourite salad, you dry out already sun-dried olives and you opt for roasted chickpeas instead of nuts--because they're way nuttier. And then you plow your way through way more of it than you could imagine.

strawberry soda

I made a strawberry soda because I knew it would be freaking delicious, but also because store-bought flavoured sodas can sometimes taste like, um, scratch-'n'-sniff stickers, not fruit.