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Ka’ak (Palm Sunday cookies)

The word ka’ak in the Lebanese dialect means any kind of dry cookie or galette; most ka’ak are dry, very crunchy, and come either plain or covered with sesame seeds. This one is a very traditional ka’ak which uses grape molasses instead of sugar; grape molasses was used in a number of desserts, cakes, breads [...]
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Fig rolls

Saw a tempting brioche recipe in Nadji’s Saveurs et Gourmandises (I call her the Queen of brioches and desserts of all stripes); anyway, the recipe appealed to me  because it used fresh mandarin  juice in the batter. I added some orange rind and orange blossom water to the batter and stuffed the brioche with fig [...]
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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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