Homemade yogurt cheese as in Lebanon

If you ever wanted to make cheese but thought it was very difficult to make it at home, this is for you.

Traditional labneh, as they call yogurt cheese in the Arabic Eastern Mediterranean, is very easy to make. It's a creamy white cheese that you make by adding a little salt to yogurt and draining the whey overnight.

In my web site I give step-by-step instructions for making yogurt cheese easily. You'll be an accomplished cheese maker in no time, I promise.

Eat it for breakfast with flat bread or toast with olive oil, in a sandwich, or on a Lebanese-style pizza. You'll find plenty of occasions to eat this delicious yogurt cheese that belongs to the healthy Mediterranean diet.

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Vegetable Recipes from the Mediterranean

Home cooks increasingly want to prepare vegetable recipes that are healthy but succulent at the same time.

I offer many vegetable Mediterranean recipes explained step by step.

You'll find vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian and lacto-ovo-vegetarian recipes. Many of them are versatile, you can use them as appetizers, as accompaniment or side dish, it's up to you.

By the way, on Sunday, I prepared what seems to me the quickest and simplest soup in the world.

It's a traditional Catalan walnut soup - Sopa de nous. You shell some walnuts, pulverize them with mortar and pestle, put them in a soup bowl and scald them with boiling water. That's it. You can add toasted bread if you like.

The funny thing is that this walnut soup is also eaten as dessert and breakfast. In this case, you generally add some sugar, brown sugar I'd advice. Really cool, very healthy, and lightning fast!

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Horchata - Real Valencian Orxata

Horchata is a very refreshing drink with a very special taste. As a child I found it mouthwatering, and I couldn't wait for the summer to drink it.

In Barcelona, where I grew up, there were a few ice cream parlors where you could get authentic freshly-made orxata, as if you were in a Valencian town. And on the 24th of June, Saint John's Day, we made it ourselves at home.

One of my web site visitors asked me for the horchata recipe and I posted it. Enjoy!

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Easy dessert based on nuts

Toasted almonds, hazelnuts, raisins, dried figs... Include as few or as many nuts as you want in this traditional Catalan easy dessert called Musician dessert.

This easy dessert recipe is healthy and typical of the winter months, as it gives you the energy you need when it's colder. It's so simple that I'm afraid people may not understand.

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Fresh Mint for Mediterranean Recipes

Right now the fresh mint is the happiest being in our home. It has been raining since the beginning of April, and this aromatic herb loves dampness. The typical Mediterranean flat parsley is also thriving.

So this month I cooked a few mint and parsley omelets. The Lebanese version combines mint and parsley with scallions. The Catalan version combines fresh mint with green garlic. The Arabic version adds one teaspoon of flour. We don't.

To make such an omelet, finely chop a few sprigs of the herbs and vegetables you chose. Beat 4 or 5 eggs. Mix everything gently. Add some salt and a small pinch of pepper, and you'll have prepared a delicious, quick and easy Mediterranean recipe suitable for lunch or dinner.

You can cook small omelets or a round flat omelet as in a potato omelette recipe.

And with so much fresh mint around, don't forget to make a Moroccan-style mint tee from time to time.

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Easy fruit salad recipe

Today we had a bright sunny Sunday, that is, until about half past five in the afternoon when the sky went black and it started raining. I am expecting friends from the cold European North and I am praying that the weather is as great as the last days.

Anyway, we had lunch with all windows and balcony wide open. As dessert we had an easy fruit salad with winter oranges and spring mint. Below I give you the recipe for this easy fruit salad recipe.

That's right, it seems that it is winter and spring at the same time. We have the most sweet winter oranges and at the same time our mint plant is growing again, after the winter rest.

Ingredients for this easy fruit salad recipe

• 2 apples


• 1 orange


• 1 grapefruit


• 3 leaves mint


• 2 tablespoons honey of orange blossom or other mild honey


• 1 small handful raisins

Easy fruit salad recipe preparation instructions

Peel the fruit and chop them into bite-size pieces. Add them to a fruit salad bowl.

Mince the mint and add it to the bowl. Add the raisins. Mix well.

Finally, add the 2 tablespoons honey and mix well.

Serve at room temperature.


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