Monthly Archives: December 2011

Chocolate buttons

  Happy New Year 2012~ Wishing you good health, prosperity and lots of joy! A tiny sugar cookie shaped like a button is flavored with chocolate, coated with ganache and dabbed with a whisper of gold leaf. INGREDIENTS: 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp of baking powder 1 cup unsalted  butter room temperature 1 [...]
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Cabbage rolls (Mehshi malfouf)

What tourist brochures fail to mention when advertising the many advantages  of Lebanon  is that this is the place where self-expression rules. Nowhere is this more evident than on the road. Lebanese drivers favor honking as their favorite method of self-expression; to  be awakened at 3:00AM by a honking contest (when your half-conscious mind is [...]
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Mysterious kitchen tool

Found this in a Beirut supermarket; it is a rolling pin with stationary blades (one inch or so apart). Can anybody guess what it is used for? [Translate]
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