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Mini-kadaifi cakes

If you walk into a pastry shop in Beirut (specializing in Arabic sweets), a good third of all pastries will be made with this dough, called kataifi or shredded phyllo dough. I saw  once  how this dough is made: A batter is piped through hundreds of minuscule little holes onto a hot griddle which forms [...]
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Sweet pasta (Sh’ariyeh be-sukkar)

In the Lebanese kitchen, capellini or vermicelli pasta is used on a daily basis to make our rice and pasta pilaf. This is a sweet version I read about in Ina’am Atalla’s Simply Lebanese. Mrs Atalla recalls how this dessert used to be her mother’s standby when people would drop by for a visit (a [...]
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Sweet tabbouleh

As Lebanese, we have embraced challenges, crossed oceans, climbed mountain peaks around the globe, learned foreign languages, assimilated and adjusted to strange environments and societies; however, there is one area in which veering from tradition is never done, food. Every Lebanese restaurant across the world will present a similar menu, with the tabbouleh, hummus, baba [...]
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