Experiences you can share around the table.
A warm welcome into our home, our kitchen, and our way of doing things. Hosted personally by Maha and the family — small groups, slow meals, real conversation, and whatever's in season, cooked with you or for you.
Family Breakfast.
The slowest, kindest way to start a day in Jordan. You'll sit at the long table on our terrace — Petra hills in the distance, the morning light still soft — and we'll keep refilling your tea until you tell us to stop.
Breakfast is the most generous meal in a Jordanian home. We bring everything to the centre and share — hummus, mutabbal, foul, gallayet bandora, and the spread of small dishes that take a Jordanian morning to assemble. Local dairy from the village: ghee, fresh butter, yogurt, labneh. House-baked bread, still warm. Olives from our trees. And on the other side of the table, muaajanat — small savoury pastries to dip and pass around.
come for breakfastFamily Lunch.
Lunch is for the dishes you came to Jordan to try. Maqluba flipped at the table — the moment where everyone holds their breath, then claps when it comes out right. Or mansaf, our national dish, if you've never had it. Or whatever's on the stove that day. If you have a Jordanian dish in mind you've been wanting to try, ask Maha when you book — she'll make it for you.
Everything is shared from the centre, eaten with the right hand or with bread. Second helpings are expected. Conversation slows down. By the time we get to tea, you've usually stopped looking at your watch.
come for lunchFamily Dinner.
Our longest meal. Several courses, the lights low, Arabic coffee or sage tea afterwards — the kind of evening that wanders from Petra to your kids' schools to what Maha's grandmother used to say.
Dinner here is when conversation really opens up. Guests usually have questions by now — about Jordan, about Islam, about how we cook, about how we live. We have questions for you too. Plates keep arriving. Nobody hurries.
come for dinnerMorning Baking.
Stand at the counter with Maha and the family. Roll out ka'ak, shape manaqeesh, pull bread out of the oven warm. You'll work with your hands, you'll learn the rhythm of it, you'll get flour on your shirt — and you'll eat what you made before it cools.
This isn't a demonstration. You're at the counter, mixing, kneading, shaping. We share the recipes, but more than that, you'll learn the little things — how to know when the dough is right, why we add nigella seeds, when to fold and when to roll. Things that don't go in cookbooks.
come bake with usCooking Class.
Pick a dish and we'll cook it together, shoulder to shoulder. Maqluba is the favourite. Kibbeh, warak enab, fatteh, mansaf, sawani, sambousek — whatever you've been curious about since you arrived in Jordan, we can make it. Choose when you book, or we can choose for you based on what's in season.
You'll start with the prep — washing, chopping, soaking — and work through the whole dish. Layering. Stewing. The bit where you flip the maqluba and pray it lands. By the end, the table is set, the food is yours, and you've earned it. Then we eat together.
come cook with usMore hands-on experiences, coming soon.
We're thinking about what else to share — beyond the kitchen, beyond the table. The kind of small, hands-on things that don't usually make it onto a tourist's itinerary. Help us decide what to add next.
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