Category Archives: lamb

Potato Globe with meat or bean stuffing (Batata charp)

When your kids  grow up and live their own lives, you find yourself reminiscing about your own childhood; which brings me to these memories of  Iraq. My dad,a man not inclined  to vacationing, had decided to take us to Iraq; he had  lived there as a bachelor, and had worked as a chief engineer in [...]
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Rack of Lamb with bulgur pilaf

Is there a dish that makes you lose control and that you devour in minutes? When I make a rack of lamb,  Nick (son) forgets he is a vegetarian and wants to attack all of the meat  the minute he sees it;  Alice (daughter) wants to show me how she cleaned out every speck from [...]
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Lebanese Gyros

I have been to Greek restaurants ….once or twice, in Dallas. To say that my knowledge of Greek food is limited is an understatement. (I am learning now  through visits to Kalofagas. ca, Kopiaste, History of Greek Food, Tobias Cooks and En Direct d’Athènes). There is a Greek church in Dallas and when they hold [...]
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