All Posts By

Lara Elhassan

  • lunch vegetarian

    Mushroom Hand Pie

    If you’ve had Trader Joe’s Mushroom Turnovers, you’ll understand when I say they might be the best frozen food I’ve ever had. These mushroom hand pies are inspired by T Joe’s, and take these…

    August 6, 2020
  • food

    Savory Pastry Dough

    This pastry dough is perfect for any hand pies and turnovers and is extremely easy to work with. In most of the Arab world you would call this pastry—sambousek. Sambousek can be filled with…

    August 6, 2020
  • dessert

    Date and Sesame Kurabiye

    SO let me just clarify something, I am technically both Syrian and Turkish but I don’t speak Turkish (you can blame my mom for that). Most of the Turkish influence in my life comes…

    July 31, 2020
  • dessert

    Eid Traditions

    Hey there! Happy Eid! This year we are all stuck inside (once again—thank you covid). Since we’ve been baking so much lately, we decided that instead of eating all the desserts ourselves, we would…

    July 31, 2020
  • dessert

    Fig and Tahini Biscotti

    As someone who both does not like biscotti because they can sometimes be too hard and is just not a big fan of tahini—these biscottis are amazing. They are the perfect balance of sweet…

    July 31, 2020