Tag Archives: salad

Armenian bulgur salad (Itch)

  You may be still in the throes of Winter where you are, but here in Lebanon Spring has arrived; the mountains are getting covered in wildflowers and fruit trees have started to show their blossoms. Winter was barely felt this year.  This salad is extra flavorful and when I make it, I end up [...]
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Eggplant salad (Treedet al-beitenjane)

If I had been told that eggplant would be my favorite vegetable as a grown-up I would have been in total disbelief; eggplant? That same eggplant I used to hide in my apron so I would not have to eat it? (nun school, we were forced to eat everything).  Well, here is the ubiquitous eggplant, [...]
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Wild dandelion salad (salatet hindbeh)

  I was driving in the Chouf mountains and my destination was a village in the valley 20 minutes away. I saw three women bent down on the edge of the road feverishly  plucking away what looked like weeds. It took me a couple of  minutes to think,  then I pulled over and turned around.  [...]
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Chayote squash salad

Chayote squash in Dallas is always available in Latino markets; it is very light in taste and cooks in a few minutes; here in Lebanon it is grown and called French squash (koossa frenjeh) for some reason. People like to pickle it as it is nice and crunchy. A good choice to reign-in holiday excesses, [...]
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Eggplant and peppers salad

This salad is easy to prepare; I had a big eggplant (the last ones in the season) and needed to do something. If you have a gas grill you can use it to blacken the eggplant (just lay it over the heat diffuser), or throw the eggplant (skin and all) in your oven to blacken [...]
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