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Saudi Date Cookies (Al-Harrisah)

Walima  Challenge focuses on Saudi Arabian cuisine, February 2010. This cookie epitomizes Saudi Arabia for most of us: A large country with a huge desert, lots of date trees and tons of oil. It is also the country where the Prophet Mohammed  صلى الله عليه وسلم  was born and where he spearheaded  one of the world’s [...]
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Biscotti with hazelnuts, chocolate nibs and cranberries

I spotted some beautiful biscottis in  kalofagas.ca and I knew I had to make them! Making the dough sounded as easy as 1,2,3. I am in the mood for easy right now! The  recipe called  for cinnamon and I prefer to bypass  cinnamon in sweet things; see, in our Lebanese kitchen, we use cinnamon every [...]
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Shortbread cookie (Ghoraybeh)

Apparently Valentine’s day is celebrated in Lebanon on the 13th; the reason being that  the 14th  is a national mourning day, to commemorate the brutal assassination (by massive bomb explosion) of the former Prime Minister and two dozen other people. I admire the flexibility demonstrated by my countrymen. Not one to miss a good party [...]
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