a Lebanese dinner, a celebration of the season

6-05-2010 Sat. hot, muggy.


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | lychee | watermelon | coconut cream bread
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea
DINNER --- pita bread with hummus and eggplant dip | Artichokes cooked in sweet spices with fresh fava beans | egg and green olive salad | Mushroom-stuffed vine leaves with herbs | Syrian mountain bread with chilies, spring onions and black cumin | white wine | dry rose

artichoke and fava beans


mushroom stuffed vine leaves


fresh peas

fresh fava beans

loquat

lychee

• a successful day for just-in-season fruits and vegetables: fresh peas (the farmer's market), fresh fava beans, loquat (枇杷) and vine leaves (the middle eastern market Yekta), fresh lychee ( the Chinese market, artichoke ( Wholefoods)