Two of my great-grandparents on my mother's side came from Lebanon, and we've had some Lebanese recipes ever since.
Kibbeh is one of our favorites, made of bulgur wheat, ground beef and/or lamb, and sometimes pine nuts. We make it in squares like brownies, slice it into diamonds, and eat it with flatbread. Others make kibbeh into American football-shaped hard pockets of bulgur wheat stuffed with meat, bits of lemon, sliced onions, and other goodies. Great stuff.
We also make other Lebanese foods like cabbage rolls stuffed with meat, rice, etc., the Lebanese version of baklava, baba ganoush, and some other things whose names I forget, probably because I don't normally eat them myself.
Best of all are the Lebanese meat pies. They're triangular dough pockets stuffed with ground beef and/or lamb, pine nuts, and sliced onions, with some salt, pepper, and allspice thrown in, then baked. We have a big get-together around Christmas every year at the house of my great-aunt (whose parents were from Lebanon) and great-uncle to make them. Though she's approaching 90 years old and maybe four and a half feet tall, my great-aunt leads the way, and we make between 250 and 450 meat pies that night in some 90 or 100-year old oven that's always seemed to be there, then distribute them to the family. They're glorious. If we could find a way to make them quickly, they'd be the perfect fast food, since they're convenient to hold, delicious, can be filled with anything, and can be eaten for any meal.
Enjoy!
Bread stuffed with anything seems to be the ideal food.
