Monthly Archives: August 2011

Corn and rice salad in corn husk

Tweet Obviously, this salad can be presented in a bowl; in Texas, corn husks are sold everywhere (for folks to make tamales with) and I wanted to use them for fun. You could easily use the fresh husks from the corn after pulling it out. INGREDIENTS: 1 cup of rice 2 cups of water or [...]
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Egyptian bread pudding (Oum Ali)

Tweet   On the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, this is a popular and delicious Egyptian pastry called Oum Ali. Oum is the word for mother in Arabic. It is a Middle-Eastern bread pudding, made with phyllo dough or rakakat pastry sheets. The neighborhood Middle-Eastern store had a few boxes of ROKAK, these pastry sheets imported [...]
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Meat pies, Damascus-style

Tweet Meat pies are a must in all of the Levant, however, each region or community prepares them a bit differently; my grandmother used to add drained yogurt (labneh) to hers; these have pomegranate molasses which gives the pies a bit of a fruity flavor. The dough is made with yogurt and is easy to [...]
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