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Silverfish salad (Goi Ca Bac Hang)

I will never eat insects. (Or so I thought). I just had a big bowl of insects, fixed by yours truly! Unwittingly, of course. Do you know what silverfish is? I did not. I simply grabbed a package of frozen silverfish at the Asian store (Vietnamese) thinking ” I will figure it out later”. There [...]
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Pancit

There is a Filipino sub-culture in Lebanon due to the large number of people who move there with employment contracts from the Philippines. Thanks to Jessica, a Filipino lady I befriended who lived in the country for fifteen years before going back home to marry, I discovered this wonderful dish, called pancit. It is a [...]
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Soup of lamb shanks and turnip greens

It happens to be cold and wet outside and you want something to warm you up and make you feel good. That’s easy! Grab some lamb shanks and some turnip greens and get them going on the stove. Did you ever eat the bone marrow of a lamb shank? You can pull it out with [...]
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