I seriously debated not posting this one, simply because it did NOT turn out well. The more I thought about it, the more resolved I became in posting it. Cooking isn’t always perfect, and things don’t always turn out. This was one of those weeks! Everything tasted fine but, as you’ll see, the folds in the dough wouldn’t hold for the world and we got weird, half flat fatayar.

Fatayar with Lebanese Salad

Lebanese Salad

• 2 tomatoes
• 2 english cucumbers
• 1/4 cup diced white onion (optional)
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• salt
• pepper

Combine all ingredients in a bowl and toss together. Cover and refrigerate.

Fatayar

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1/4 cup minced white onion
• 2 lbs ground beef
• 2 baking potatoes, shredded
• 2 cups grated chedder cheese
• pepper
• three 16.3 cans of homestyle buiscuit dough
• unsalted butter, melted

Heat the oil and cook the onion for a few minutes. Add your ground beef and cook until done, draining any extra liquid. Mix in the potatoes, cheese, salt, and pepper. Stir and taste for seasoning.

Roll out the individual biscuits into rounds. Place a spoonful of the mixture into the dough. Fold up the dough into three parts, and pinch together. Brush the top with butter and add a little salt. Bake for 20 minutes.
We had some meat and potato mixture left over and it made a great breakfast with eggs.

They’re supposed to look like neat little triangular packages, and I think my mistake was in overlapping the top instead of pinching the sides. The directions got super confusing and we totally goofed. Oh well, lesson learned! Our oven also burned the heck out of one of the trays. No idea what happened there. Next time I’m going to add some more seasoning to the meat pies, and maybe a sauce of some sort. It was all sort of dry and tasteless.

Gamay

This weeks wine was a French Gamay. It smelled really great, lots of raspberry and a touch of spice. We ran it through my fancy filter, which filters sulfates/tannin and aerates the wine. which really opens up the flavor. I find it super interesting that all the Beaujolais wines don’t put the grape on the label, only the region. I definitely had a headache within 2 hours, which was not a good time. All of March is GSM wines, so we’ll see how it goes!