Monthly Archives: January 2010

Cheese Cigars with beet greens (R’kakat bel-jebneh)

A quick version of a delicious but  time-consuming  recipe. I found these pre-cut sheets of a very thin, phyllo-like bread in the freezer section at the middle-easern store and grabbed them. They are imported from Turkey and evidently used in Turkish cuisine. In our cuisine, we have a pastry that is similar to phyllo, stuffed [...]
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Ginger Tea (Chai Zanjabeel)

A delicious tea made with simply a piece of ginger. I have been drinking gallons of it this week to help me with a cold. Ginger is supposed to help with nausea and a host of other problems. It is so easy to make a pot of ginger tea. Peel and cut in small pieces [...]
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Beet and Orange salad (Salatat Shmandar wBurtukal)

I  was watching Chef Elie on Soufra Daymeh, the daily cooking segment on LBC; he made a similar salad.  Beets are so healthy to eat, since they almost cure you of all major diseases (anemia, cancer and the like); I vote to have all American public schools ban tater tots from their cafeterias and replace [...]
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