It is not every day one is granted entrance to heaven while still alive.
Maisoun's kitchen is no doubt a portals on earth.
Hidden in the beautiful Druze village of Ossafia on Mt. Carmel just outside Haifa (Israel), Maisoun Kayouf is the queen of her kitchen.
When you pass by her house, you can smell a heavenly scent of spices mixed with daily ingredients and perhaps most impotently...with her love for cooking.
Being a traditional Druze wife, mother, daughter, sister and a friend, Maisoun brings her traditional culture to the kitchen table where her family and friends enjoy daily fresh creations.
I`ve been privileged to be her neighbor and friend since I moved to live in Ossafia. That, as you can imagine, has granted me with endless culinary pleasures. Not only her food tastes like heaven, it is served (daily) with such grace that I couldn`t just keep it to myself, I had to share it with the world.
Tonight I enjoyed stuffed zucchini, eggplant and something we call here Kara which is an inbreed between a squash and an eatable gourd. All filled with rice and meat, slowly cooked for hours in fresh tomato sauce.
The Druze people are known for their superb hospitality.
"What shall I cook tomorrow?"
Stay tuned for surprises from Maisoun's Kitchen.
