Cooking with Julie Taboulie (2013) - Season 1 Episodes and Ratings

Greens and beans are discussed in the first episode of the cooking series about Lebanese and Middle Eastern cuisine. Included: fresh fava beans in garlic, lemon and extra virgin olive oil; sautéed dandelion greens with caramelized onions; Lebanese-style flat green beans in onions and extra virgin olive oil; and Arabic wild greens caramelized with onions and blended bulgur wheat.

An Arabic fresh-herb omelet; Arabic asparagus and eggs; sautéed coosa squash and eggs; lamb meat and eggs; Arabic-style home fries with aromatics, fresh herbs and sumac spice

Arabic fish and rice; Arabic rice with saffron spice; watercress and radish salad with a toum and lemon thyme sprig sauce; a garlic and lemon thyme sprig sauce with lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil.

Middle Eastern-style street food is featured. Included: a meat kabob; fresh vegetables, herbs and aromatics; a sesame seed sauce with fresh flat leaf parsley and mint leaves.

How to make semolina sweet treats, including harissa and heltil bil jibneh. Also: an orange blossom syrup.

Mahshi silq bi hummus (Swiss chard leaves filled with herbs, chickpeas, long grain rice and lemon juice); silit salata (Swiss chard stalk salad with garlic, lemon and extra virgin olive oil); hummus salata (chickpea, vegetable and herb salad).

Middle Eastern cabbage recipes. Included: Lebanese-style stuffed cabbage leaves; red and green caramelized cabbage; and a red onion and tomato salad with sumac spice and tossed in a traditional Arabic dressing.

Cornish hens stuffed with ruz bi heshwi; ruz bi heshwi (a stuffing of wild- and long-grain rice, meat and herbs); sautéed baby arugula and baby spinach leaves with caramelized onions and blended with bulgur wheat.

Dessert recipes. Included: a shredded phyllo dough dessert; tofaah bi safarjal bi knafe (honey crisp apple and caramelized quince knafe cream crumble); hot apple cider with anise seeds and cinnamon sticks.

Kibbet rahib (lentil and lemon Swiss shard soup with petite herbed bulgur wheat balls); kharisah (a potato patty filled with chickpeas, herbs and bulgur wheat); labana herb sauce (a strained yogurt sauce with fresh herbs).

Lahme bi ajeen (meat pies); sfeeha (open-faced meat turnovers); sambousek (meat dumpling).

Shish barak (hot soup with lamb meat); kishik (a hot yogurt and bulgur wheat soup with lamb meat, extra virgin olive oil and toasted pine nuts); khobz bi mitli (homemade pita chips with extra virgin olive oil and sea salt).

Season 1 concludes with a butter cookie filled with a walnut date filling and dusted with sugar crystals; and an Arabic-style rice pudding with pistachio nuts.