Category Archives: vegetables and fruits

Rice and fava beans

The fava beans have been ubiquitous lately; every street vendor, every greengrocer, is carrying mounds of freshly picked fava beans. Some are large (stalks are about 7 inches long) and get plucked open, seeds eaten and pods discarded; others are tiny (about 3 to 4 inches long) and get cooked whole pods and seeds, just [...]
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Loquats (Akedenia)

These loquats show up in the early summer in Lebanon and have a short season; they can be very sweet and absolutely delightful to eat, a cross between a pear and a peach. I had spotted them in the streets of LA (California) years back,  but the trees were  totally ignored and the fruits would [...]
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Meat fingers with sour cherry sauce (Fishneyov khorovatz)

A dish that is listed in Armenian cuisine and that I had sampled a couple of times and liked very much. I saw some tiny cherries at the greengrocer and figured “now or never!”. In the book, sour cherries are  used and made into a compote. Since getting wild sour cherries that grow in Armenia [...]
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