Its made kinda like a meatloaf mixture but doesn't taste anything close to meatloaf. She bakes it in maybe a 9 by 13 pan and cuts it into triangular pieces. She uses pine nuts in hers and its absolutely delicious. I'm sure there's many ways to make it and cut it but I dearly loved hers.
Leftovers are as good cold as heated. She used to always make a pan for us at Christmas.
I grew up in a Lebanese Neighborhood in Boston. I LOVE Kibbe! There is another dish I love, called “Kusa Meshi”, stuffed Zucchini Squash. It is stuffed with lamb and rice and simmered in a tomato/mint sauce. Sounds simple, but the spices are very complex.
The food was great, but we also had the bomb squad at our Jr. High School every Friday. This was in the sixties, and bomb threats were as frequent as fire drills in our inner city public school. There was a civil war in Lebanon at the time, and we got to share a little of it right in Boston. Several churches were burned down during that period as well. Of course, the perps were never apprehended.
Ah..the old days!