High in protein, minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids, salmon is a healthy and delicious seafood superstar. Its great for our overall health, brain health, and even recommended for expecting moms. Therefore, salmon is a staple in most homes. Of course never frozen salmon is the best and tastiest salmon. However, if you’re hoping to … Read More The post Choosing & Storing Salmon appeared first on Dima Al Sharif ..read more

Corporate gifts don’t get any more meaningful than this! MOONEH Gifts Give Back. 30% from DS Gifts proceeds go towards feeding people in need (always applicable).     The past couple of years have been tough, to say the least! They have been tough on everyone, but especially rough on the many individuals who lost … Read More The post MOONEH Gifts Give back! (MOONEH CSR Initiatives) appeared first on Dima Al Sharif ..read more

The best thing about Kofta is the dipping of bread into the sauce, the filling that dipped bread with a cutting of the cooked Kofta and including a piece of that roasted tomato and chewing on this heavenly food. Anything where you can grab food with a warm, fluffy pita bread is just heavenly food! … Read More The post Palestinian VS Syrian “Kofta” appeared first on Dima Al Sharif ..read more

One of the most popular Levantine cuisine concoctions, “Maqloobeh” or as locally pronounced “Ma’loobeh”, could very well be the most loved shared dish in the Levant! It is everyone’s childhood memory, and everyone’s favourite comfort food. There is not a Levantine home that does not know, cook, love and appreciate Ma’loobeh! That said, there are … Read More The post Comparing & Contrasting Palestinian & Syrian Versions of “Maqloobeh” appeared first on Dima Al Sharif ..read more

Fattet Makdoos is a very popular dish in Levantine cuisine. Fatteh in general is a term given to a dish that is usually layered and at the base is always bread. Coming from the Arabic term “futt Khobez” meaning breaking bread into smaller pieces. Every Fatteh will always include: a layer made out of bread … Read More The post Comparing Palestinian & Syrian versions of Fattet Makdoos appeared first on Dima Al Sharif ..read more

   You know it is a tradition! Since I started a blog – as long as I can remember – I have always had a Ramadan Special tradition. Where every Ramadan I choose a theme, a focus point to share with you. Where usually I would post 30 posts, one each day and share … Read More The post Ramadan Special 2019 – Exploring Levantine Cuisine appeared first on Dima Al Sharif ..read more

  Pickles in History It was not always the case that varieties of foods were available all year round for people to consume. Back in the day, as you know, there was not even refrigeration to store seasonal produce long enough let alone store in season produce for out of season use such as we … Read More The post The Health Benefits of Pickles appeared first on Dima Al Sharif ..read more

For Reference: Palestinian Eggplant Maqloobeh meaning eggplant upside down, is a one pot concoction in Palestinian cuisine, where rice, fried eggplants, sliced tomatoes and boiled meat are cooked together until the rice is cooked through. Once done cooking, the pot is then turned upside down over a large plate, to reveal a rice concoction that … Read More The post Palestinian Maqloobeh, Baseless Historical Claims & Instagram Deleting Comments! appeared first on Dima Al Sharif ..read more

  During the past few years, Himalayan pink salt has become the talk of the culinary world. We have all been hearing about this amazing salt, from health benefits to superiority in quality and flavour to even the many new kitchenware applications of these salt rocks (the salt griddles, salt plates, salt slabs…etc). So what exactly … Read More The post Himalayan Pink Salt – What is all the hype about? appeared first on Dima Al Sharif ..read more

A beautiful but non-edible rainbow; Who doesn’t love looking at all kinds of colour? We fall in love with the look of highly colourful foods, especially those baked foods. I mean who doesn’t love looking at those decorated cakes and cookies and marvelling at the talent employed for creating them? Many of us know today … Read More The post Homemade Vegan Food Colouring appeared first on Dima Al Sharif ..read more