DISHES

Here are just a few to show you, but I have so many more that I can cook and surprise you with. We could talk about them and I would be happy to make some suggestions according to your specific needs.

Mexican:

-Watercress salad with chile ancho dressing
-Chayote (vegetable in the squash family) salad with vinaigrette
-Green salad with avocado dressing
-Nopales (tender cactus) salad
-Sopes, mexican appetizer
-Fish tacos
-Pozole (hominy) soup
-Mole de olla soup (vegetable with an ancho pepper broth)
-Lentil soup
-Rice soup
-Black bean soup
-Stuffed poblano pepper
-Rice (all different kinds, like green made with spinach - your family will not even notice the spinach-flavor, promise!)
-Chicken mole, (chocolate chile pepper sauce, a little bit sweet and spicy as well)
-Pareve mole enchiladas
-Enchiladas, a very traditional dish and can be stuffed with any meat or cheese
-Rajas poblanas (dish made with potatoes, poblano pepper, onions and corn)
-Albondigas (meatballs) en salsa
-Puntas de filete al albañil (beef for tacos)
-Salsas
-Tamales (sweet or salty)
-Impossible cake (flan with a chocolate cake)
-Crepas de cajeta (caramel crepes with pecans)
-Fresas con crema (strawberries and cream)


Syrian:

-Kibbeh (bulgur-meat dough, rice flour-meat dough, lentil or potato dough)
-Tabule (bulgur salad)
-Cucumber salad
-Beet salad
-Tahine
-Mtepal (eggplant with tahine)
-Labne (strained yogurt)
-Zaatar (middle eastern spice) usually served with pita and olive oil
-Sambusak (cheese filled pastries)
-Middle eastern salad
-Purslane salad with sumac dressing
-Eggplant salad
-Bazargan (sweet tamarind bulgur salad)
-Fried eggplant
-Lentil soup
-Shurba (rice soup with kibbeh and chick peas)
-Fava beans soup
-Mehshi banadoura (stuffed tomatoes)
-Mnesle (eggplant with chicken)
-Long green beans with meat (this is the actual black-eyed pea dish)
-Pasta with chicken
-Stuffed swiss chard
-Stuffed zucchini
-Mujedrah (rice with brown lentils)
-Artichoke chicken stew
-Mushroom veal stew
-Belawa
-Graybeh (butter sugar cookies)
-Cheese knafe (shredded fillo and cheese dessert)
-Atayef (nut-stuffed pancakes, served warmed with syrup)
-Ma'amoul (nuts/dates-stuffed cookie balls)
-Mazapan (almond paste treats)
-Belta (pareve dessert made with corn starch and nuts)

......and so many more!!