Monthly Archives: December 2010

Barazek tuiles with sahlab

Tweet Last Christmas season I was in Istanbul for a short visit and while my daughter wanted to visit the beautiful monuments all around us, I only wanted one thing: to get some sahlab AKA salep or sahlep. The monuments could wait. Sahlab AKA salep or sahlep or sahleb is a powder that is mixed [...]
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Last-minute holiday ideas

Tweet The seven-hour lamb, for the recipe click here. Lebanese couscous with lamb shanks and pearl onions, for the recipe click here Spiced fish, for the recipe click here. Swiss chard cake, for the recipe click here Tangerine sorbet, for the recipe click here. Apricots filled with clotted cream, for the recipe click here. Shredded [...]
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A healthy pizza

Tweet Anybody who adores carbs, and that includes pizzas, breads, rolls, croissants and the like, comes to the conclusion that gobbling up pizzas from the neighborhood pizza parlor is a bad habit that needs to be tossed out. OK. So what about making a pizza at home, from scratch? In under 30 minutes? with much [...]
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