Monthly Archives: March 2010

Lebanese salad dressing, in 56 seconds

I  moved to  California  in the early eighties  and back then  everybody around me was using bottled salad dressing with names like Ranch, Thousand Islands, French; that  was  bewildering to me; I did not understand why someone would buy a bottle of these rich  concoctions when it was so easy to whip up a salad [...]
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Shrimp and pineapple salad with lebanese couscous

The weather in Dallas these days is fabulous: 76F, sunny,trees are in bloom! So, I wanted  a pineapple! Stuffed with shrimp, cashews, Lebanese couscous, spices and herbs, it was a  perfect meal to welcome springtime. Lebanese couscous is made up of semolina and the grains are big and fat! In Palestine and Jordan and maybe [...]
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Potato stuffed with peppers and egg (Shakshouka)

All I know about Tunisia I heard from my mother;  she  visited that country  and came back filled  with  enthusiasm for Tunisia; she showed us pictures of little houses painted  white  with light blue louvers. She brought back an ornate  bird cage, all white and blue; she told us that in Tunisia people spoke an [...]
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