Kitchen notes
What she is teaching.
Essays for the Metro Detroit table: Middle Eastern food, simple science, and the myths that deserve to be retired. Written in English and Arabic. Not a meal plan. Not medical advice.
From her kitchen·4 min
Za'atar rolls
She calls them the savory cousin of cinnamon rolls: soft, fluffy dough with za'atar, meant to sit beside labneh, cheese, and tea. A Middle Eastern breakfast that does not need a new grocery list.
Gluten-free · dairy-free · egg-free·4 min
Date cookie dough
Oats, almond flour, tahini, and date paste, filled with dark chocolate. A treat built from the pantry she actually cooks with — not a diet-food imitation.
Myth, then fact·5 min
Tea, yogurt, and iron
Calcium and the tannins in tea can block iron. Vitamin C helps the body absorb it. Her rule of thumb: enjoy tea about two hours after the meal, not with it.
The table·6 min
You can keep the hummus.
A nutrition plan that begins by exiling hummus, olive oil, rice, or fruit is usually a plan written for someone else's supermarket.
Myths·7 min
Why crash diets fail the people who try the hardest.
A two-week cut is not discipline. It is a short experiment with hunger that most bodies, and most families, will refuse to continue.
Sufra·8 min
How to build a Levantine plate that actually satisfies.
A method you can use tonight: one plate, five parts, no imported grocery identity.
Science, plainly·7 min
Blood sugar without banning bread.
Glucose care that exiles pita and rice will be abandoned. Glucose care that keeps them, and changes their company, can be lived with.
Households·6 min
Three generations, one pot.
If the person at the stove is not in the plan, the plan is theater. Family nutrition is a different skill than a private diet.
Kitchen science·5 min
Protein that already lives in your kitchen.
You do not need a powder to “hit protein.” You need to notice the yogurt, cheese, beans, eggs, and fish you already buy.
تصحيح مفاهيم·8 min
Five nutrition myths that do not survive a Damascene table.
Samar’s Instagram already does this work. Here it is written to keep: olive oil, fruit at night, “starches,” detoxes, and the idea that Arabic food is the problem.
Metro Detroit·6 min
A grocery list that still tastes like home.
Fraser, Clinton Township, Madison Heights: you do not need a coastal supermarket to eat like a dietitian is in the room. You need a list that matches the stores you already use.
Kitchen notes are public education. They are not a personal nutrition plan and they do not replace a visit with a registered dietitian or your physician.