Alforon, 5965 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101
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A Lebanese Breakfast
Lebanese Breakfast by Fouad. I remember breakfasts of Labneh, Zaatar, mint, tomato and cucumber with fresh, paper thin markouk bread. On weekends, when time was a luxury we could afford, it would be kishk and qawarma hiding full cloves of garlic in creamy whiteness speckled with shallow fried pine nuts. We burnt our tongues in impatience and never learned to wait. Eggs with sumac were fluffy and crunchy, slowly fried with olive oil in pottery and devoured within seconds with farm fresh home made goat’s milk yoghurt. Every once in a while, mom would send dad down to the baker’s with a variety of containers […]
Continue readingHistory Of Humous
Humous, The word comes from Arabic: حمّصḥummuṣ[ ‘chickpeas’. Like many other Arabic loanwords and names, romanized spellings of the word in English can be inconsistent. The earliest use of the word hummus in English as noted by the Oxford English Among the common spellings for this word as transliterated into English are hummus, hommos and hoummos. The spelling humus is generally avoided in English as it is a homonym of humus (organic matter in soil), though this is the usual Turkish spelling and the OED indicates the word entered the English language from Turkish. The full Arabic name of the prepared spread is حُمُّص بطحينة […]
Continue readingLebanese Mediterranean Cuisine (A One of a Kind)
Lebanese cuisine includes an abundance of starches, fruits, vegetables, fresh fish and seafood; animal fats are consumed sparingly. Poultry is eaten more often than red meat, and when red meat is eaten it is usually lamb on the coast and goat meat in the mountain regions. It also includes copious amounts of garlic and olive oil, often seasoned by lemon juice. Rarely does a meal goes by in Lebanon which does not include these ingredients. Most often foods are either grilled, baked or sautéed in olive oil; butter or cream is rarely used other than in a few desserts. Vegetables are often eaten raw or pickled as […]
Continue readingFresh and Healthy Manakeesh / Flat Bread sandwiches Lebanese Style
Alforon uses the freshest of ingredients, no microwave, no forced heating of anykind.Fresh and Healthy Flat Bread sandwiches Lebanese / Arabic Style Imported Zaatar and Summac, Imported Olive Oil along with an imported idea to bake like old times, the soft flat bread sandwishes you use to roll when you were a kid, the toppings your Mom, Grand Ma and Aunts made for you growing up. It is all done the old fashion way, from dough preparation and handling to baking and storing. Our hand made state of the art oven insures even cooking and heat distribution with two long flames on either side of the plate and a controlled thermal heat underneath. Do you remember […]
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Manakeesh or Manaeesh… A little fact.
Manakeesh, Manaeesh, Manaqish or in singular form manousheh (Arabic: مناقيش manāqīsh; sometimes called معجنات mu‘ajjanāt ‘pastry’) is a popular food consisting of dough topped with wild thyme, cheese, or ground meat. Similar to a pizza, it can be sliced or folded, and it can either be served for breakfast or lunch. The word manaqish is the plural of the Arabic word manqūshah (from the root verb naqasha ‘to sculpt, carve out’), meaning that after the dough has been rolled flat, it is pressed by the fingertips to create little dips for the topping to lie in. Traditionally, Arab women would bake dough in a communal […]
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We are located at 5965 El Cajon Blvd in San Diego, We are one block west of College Ave on El Cajon Blvd. You can reach us at 619-269-9904 We are open Tue through Sat 10:30 AM til 9 PM Sun 10:30 AM til 7PM Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays Alforon, 5965 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, CA 92115 Please click here to download the map DOWNLOAD MAP Alforon Check out with Amazon Prime Now ***
Continue readingSan Diego’s first.. A different kind of Lebanese Cuisine
“ALFORON” will take you back in a Journey to our Old Country of Lebanon in a beautiful setting, a friendly smile and our family’s warm Welcome, top it all with a Great Value Menu. San Diego’s first of its kind, “ALFORON” Brings you our freshly made Manakeesh or Flat Bread Sandwiches from the finest of ingredients, Baked daily in our State of the Art Brick Oven. Come taste what has been missing in San Diego County. it is finally here and it’s just like it used to be in the Old Country. We make our own Yogurt, Aayran and Labni on location, we use the […]
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