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tabouli with endive and escarole

November 3, 2010

Tabouli is a Middle East dish that is very popular in Brazil. It arrived there with Lebanese immigrants and became so integrated into Brazilian culinary traditions that for me it has always been comfort food. The basic ingredients for traditional tabouli are cracked wheat, lime juice, good olive oil, tomatoes, cucumber, salt and pepper. In [...]

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tamarind, mint and cilantro salsa

June 21, 2010

Tamarind bars are sold at Asian markets in 5x3x1½ inch thick bricks. They’re called Me chua Không Hôt in Vietnamese. Tamarind has a gorgeous sweet and sour flavor. Here’s something fun about tamarind: the fruit was brought to Persia and then the Arab world with the spice trade from the Far East. At that time [...]

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fish kibe AKA kibe de peixe

June 10, 2010

This recipe comes from our new friend, Nagib. We just got to know him last week while he was in San Francisco for a conference. He knows our lovely friend, Omar, who we met through John last year. Small world: Omar is from Lebanon and Nagib is Brazilian of Lebanese descent. Apparently Nagib went to [...]

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stuffed sumac and mint bulgur dumplings

May 12, 2010

This recipe comes from “The Rural Taste of Lebanon: a Food Heritage Trail.” I found it appealing because I’m unfamiliar with sumac, which I’ve also seen spelled “somak,” and I wanted to see what it might taste like. The potato onion filling reminded me a lot of what you might stuff into Polish perogies. I [...]

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homemade vegetarian quibe AKA khichcar

April 12, 2010

Last month we received a beautiful and rare cookbook, The Rural Taste of Lebanon by Chérine Yazbeck, as a gift from our blogger friend, Joumana Accad, from Taste of Beirut. Joumana, thanks again for this exciting gift! The author, Yazbeck, focuses on traditional and less well-known foods from the Lebanese countryside. She seems bowled over [...]

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wide rice noodles with Birjandi cucumber and pistachio sauce

March 19, 2010

The more that I delve into Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey, the more that I become fascinated. I’ve been focusing on some of the rice and grain dishes over the past few weeks, like Susa Polow with lentils, currants and dates; Fertile Crescent bulgar and mung bean pilaf; and Georgian pilaf with tart cherries. [...]

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spicy Thai vegetable soup for the soul

January 11, 2010

Steven and I both got hit with bad colds last weekend. We felt like crap with body aches, coughing, difficulty breathing… you get the picture. Ugh! While suffering miserably, by chance, I picked up the latest edition of Vegetarian Times. They’ve a recipe for a soup that sounded exactly like what we needed to get [...]

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Napa cabbage tabouli

December 28, 2009

The other week Steven and I went to Japan town to the Sundance Kabuki movie theater to see A Single Man, Tom Ford, the famous clothing designer’s first movie. I heard that he financed the whole project with his own money! That takes balls! We loved it even though it’s really sad. Based upon this [...]

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poached king salmon spicy Thai tom yum soup

October 7, 2009

For our recent Thai-themed night, I made this fabulous tom yum soup to go with my almost vegetarian pad Thai. This soup has wonderfully fresh, spicy, sour, herbal and earthy flavors; and it’s incredibly easy to make. I learned the recipe in the 1990’s while living in UK. There I worked for a few months [...]

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