Rose Water and Orange Blossoms: Fresh & Classic Recipes from my Lebanese Kitchen

Rose Water and Orange Blossoms: Fresh & Classic Recipes from my Lebanese Kitchen

Distributers Weekly's Top 10 Cookbooks for Spring 2015

Pomegranates and pistachios. Flower waters and cinnamon. Bulgur wheat, lentils, and delicious sheep. These were the lavish elements of Maureen Abood's youth, growing up as a Lebanese-American in Northern Michigan. As a grown-up, Maureen had the option to utilize her culinary ability to return to the plans she was raised on, and give them a contemporary American take. She previously chronicled her riffs on conventional cooking in her mainstream blog, Rose Water and Orange Blossoms. She currently shares more than 100 of her inventive and great Lebanese plans in this cookbook of a similar name.

Taking an occasional, fixing centered methodology, Maureen presents powerful dishes that will please perusers who long for suggestive flavors and fortifying parts. Plans incorporate Pistachio Crusted White Fish, Stone Fruit Salad with Flower Waters and Shaved Coconut, and Spiced Sweet Bread with Rose Water Milk Glaze. Weaved all through are Maureen's accounts of her Lebanese childhood, her movements, and life in a lakeside Michigan town. Rose Water and Orange Blossoms is a festival of Middle East food, and of utilizing custom as a springboard for recently heavenly dishes.

About the Author
MAUREEN ABOOD is a professional writer and food blogger whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Saveur, The Chicago Tribune, and the Huffington Post, among others. In 2011 she started her blog Rose Water & Orange Blossoms, where she shares her stories, photos, and recipes featuring Lebanese cuisine. She lives in Harbor Springs and East Lansing, Michigan
I’ve an addiction to cookery books and recipes, so many wonderful different things to create. I love books too like this which feature a snippet of life in another culture, which give an insight into a different daily life. Right now when I’m writing this it’s January in the UK, a cold, frosty day but reading this book transports me into a place where the sun is shining and I can smell spices and blossoms.
This book had me at pomegranates, cinnamon and lamb. Three things I adore. Pomegranates are magical, I used to watch nan opening them, picking out gorgeous, rich coloured and perfectly shapes seeds, like little crystals....even now I feel a frisson of that magic when I peel one ( and there’s a great tip on how to do that easily here). My daughter has been a vegetarian for most of her life now – she was nine when she decided no killing for her food, so we’ve grown up looking out for recipes she can enjoy and there are some fabulous ones here, different takes on the usual hummus, dhal and falafel that sound fresh and fun. Recipes to be enjoyed by non meat eaters and meat eaters alike. There’s so much to enjoy about this book and for many of the recipes the ingredients are ones that most people will have in their cupboards though some will need to be found through specialist outlets such as the pomegranate syrup.
I’ve got this book on kindle for review, and the pictures in the kindle fire are inspirational, but like all non fiction books I think its better in conventional print format. Its not easy to flick through kindle to find recipes, and it doesn’t help when they contain something which is given “on page 29” for example, when the kindle pages aren’t numbered but just go in locations. Maybe that will be changed in the final version though.

Its a wonderful read, for the story of the authors life as much as for the recipes, the little snippets she reveals of her own upbringing – I love reading things like that, it makes everything so much more real. .-Jeannie Zelos

Wonderful cookbook, full of great recipes and heartfelt stories. All creating a true reflection of Lebanese cuisine and culture.-Jessie 

Wonderful book. Lots of really cracking recipes and a charming storytelling style. -Lisianthus 

Download Ebook Rose Water and Orange Blossoms: Fresh & Classic Recipes from my Lebanese Kitchen | 29 Mb | Pages 272 | PDF| 2015 

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