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chicken, frog legs, white meat

Mouloukhieh (Jew’s mallow soup)

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 each [...]
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Day-after Thanksgiving salad

It is hard to imagine that an appetite would manifest itself the day after this Thanksgiving feast. It is requesting  lighter fare, however. INGREDIENTS: 2 servings 1/2 cup of lentils (I used green lentils) 1/2 cup of diced celery 2 cups of leftover turkey meat 1/2 avocado 1/4 cup of pomegranate arils Dressing: 1 garlic [...]
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Iraqi-Jewish chicken and rice (Tibeat)

  A dish  in Nawal Nasrallah’s Delights from the Garden of Eden listed as an Iraqi-Jewish traditional meal served on the Sabbath in Baghdad and cooked in a tannour. The tannour was a wood-fired  communal oven; it is still being used in some rural areas in Lebanon today to make bread. The chicken and rice [...]
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