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Egyptian bread pudding (Oum Ali)

  On the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, this is a popular and delicious Egyptian pastry called Oum Ali. Oum is the word for mother in Arabic. It is a Middle-Eastern bread pudding, made with phyllo dough or rakakat pastry sheets. The neighborhood Middle-Eastern store had a few boxes of ROKAK, these pastry sheets imported from [...]
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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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Baklava in ten minutes

For those of you still scrambling to come up with a speedy dessert for a New Year’s eve party I have uploaded a video version of my ten-minute baklava post. For the recipe, click here. [Translate]
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