Monthly Archives: December 2011

Mouloukhieh (Jew’s mallow soup)

Tweet To call this dish a soup is misleading;  like the Mexican posole it is a grand dish with many components each of which have to be prepared separately. Mouloukhieh is hugely popular in Lebanon and in Egypt and the exact origin of this dish has not been established yet. Suffice it to say that [...]
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Christmas cookies

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Keshek soup

Tweet Keshek is a very traditional food made every year by Lebanese villagers with bulgur and milk (either cow’s or goat’s) at the end of summer as part of  winter’s provisions. Coarse bulgur is rubbed  with milk and left to ferment a few days; it is then placed on the  rooftop (traditional homes are built [...]
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