Monthly Archives: May 2009

Apricot and milk pudding (muhallabiya amardeen)

Tweet Love apricots! However, I have not had good luck with the  fresh  apricots sold in supermarkets. They  are so often bland and pasty that I stopped buying them.  I remember my excitement the first time I found the amardeen of my childhood in a middle-eastern store…  we used to tear off pieces and  lick [...]
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Jew Mallow stew (M’lookhiyeh) Coptic-style

Tweet … m’lookhiyeh?  I remember:  How everyone would swoon at the mere mention of that word. An invitation at so and so to a m’lookhiyeh? Teta Nabiha making it  for Sunday lunch and  inviting Tante Wadad and Khalo Nkoola…always an event.  Teta’s double-sized bed would be covered with a clean sheet and on it would [...]
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Bread and Olives

Tweet In the cultural news, a Lebanese filmmaker, Simon El-Habre, won first prize at the Toronto Hot Docs Festival for his film entitled ” The One Man  Village” . It is the true story of his uncle Sem’aan, who ended up living alone in his village after all the other inhabitants fled during the civil [...]
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