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Lamb shank and bean soup (Shorbet mawzate w fassoulia)

One of my pet peeves is this: I go out to eat at a “nice” restaurant, I order soup, I taste the soup, it tastes CANNED. AAAAh!!!! Am I nuts or do other people feel as annoyed as I do? Soup is so important! I mean, anybody can throw a piece of meat on a grill [...]
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Lamb Shanks with peas and carrots (Yakhnet al-bazella u jazar)

Whenever I meet Lebanese expats I hear them  fondly  mention the yakhneh (stew) of their mother or grandmother. There is a huge portion of the Lebanese culinary repertoire dedicated to these yakhneh, encompassing every vegetable under  the sun and almost always with the same basic  formula: a stock made of lamb shanks (or shoulder cuts), [...]
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Pumpkin Couscous, Moroccan-style

I love to be able to get, in Dallas, Texas, from the comfort of home, a first-hand look at what is going on in Lebanon through satellite channels. This morning, I was watching LBC (Lebanon Broadcast Channel); they have a cooking segment entitled Sofra daymeh and the Chef was demonstrating how to do a [...]
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