Tag: Middle Eastern cookery

• Lebanese Flatbread Crisps and an Easy Mezze Platter

  Last week I told you about the Middle Eastern feast and the Turkish butcher shop. This week I wanted to share with you the tricks behind putting together a very easy Mezze Platter. This requires a quick visit to Melbourne’s Arabic precinct and the The A1 Lebanese Bakery, Sydney Road, Brunswick, just a few doors up.

  Anna Buckley

  July 11, 2015

  Food, Life, Pastry, People, Places

  dips, flat bread, manoushe, Middle Eastern cookery, olives, pickled turnip, Sydney Road A1 bakery mezze

• Lamb Stuffed with Turkish Adana and Rolled in Sumac

  What is Australia’s national dish? Many would say roast lamb. But things are changing!

  Anna Buckley

  July 4, 2015

  Food, Life, Places, Travel

  Adana, butchers, erotica, feast, Istanbul meat, Kibbi, Lamb, Middle Eastern cookery, Roast Lamb, writing

• Potato Kibbi and Finding a New Culinary Mojo.

  Don’t you get sick of cooking the same old thing? What does it take to get out of your culinary comfort zone? It was a dinner party, one of the guests couldn’t eat dairy and it threw me. Butter, cream, milk and maybe eggs…suddenly all the dishes I’d been thinking about were off the list. 

  Anna Buckley

  May 16, 2015

  Food, Life, People

  Alhambra Palace, burghul, erotica, feast, Lebanese food, Middle Eastern cookery, potato kibbi, procrastination, Tess Mallos, writers block, writing