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Lebanese/Syrian Dinner at Anissa’s – 23 February 2012 Welcome drink: Musar rosé served with hot maqaneq (spicy Lebanese sausages) and mini za’tar bites Mezze: Three beautiful dips: Hommus Khawali (with pepper paste & pomegranate syrup), Baba Ghannuge & beetroot & tahini A delightfully refreshing salad: white tabbuleh A satisfying dish cooked in olive oil: courgettes in a tomato and mint sauce White Musar Main course: Kibbeh (a crustless pie made of two very thin layers of minced lamb and burghul with a luscious filling of minced lamb, toasted pine nuts and caramelised onion in between) served with a minty yoghurt and cucumber salad. Red Musar Dessert: Anissa’s velvety ice creams in three gorgeous flavours: rose water & pistachios, apricot leather & orange blossom water & pomegranate Turkish coffee
Moroccan Dinner – 1 March 2012 Welcome drink: Musar rosé served with briouats, some filled with eggs scrambled with coriander and others with merguez sausages Starters: Three beautiful salads: aubergines in tomato and coriander sauce, carrots with fresh herbs & chilli and sweet-savoury fragrant beetroot. White musar Main course: Quail tagine with herbs, olives and preserved lemons or Seven-vegetables couscous made with baby vegetables Red Musar Dessert: Saffron milk pudding and cornes de gazelle (delicate crescent shaped baked pastries made with the thinnest dough wrapped around almond paste) Mint tea
Emirati Dinner – 11 July 2011 Welcome drink: Musar rosé served with two different types of koftah, one made with yellow split peas & meat and the other with fish. Meal: The Emiratis do not have starters. They serve everything at the same time and here is what the meal will consist of: baby goat that will have been previously been marinated in a mixture of Emirati spices, saffron and rose water, biryani rice, and tharid, the Prophet Muhammad’s favourite dish, which is made up of a layer of wafer thin dry bread topped with a stew of meat and baby vegetables. I will also serve a refreshing green salad. Red Musar wine Dessert: Saffron milk pudding and chickpea biscuits Arab coffee
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