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Tomatoes with sumac dressing

  These tomatoes are called here jabalieh from jabal which is the word for mountain. They are huge and start appearing now at every stall in every mountain village. A traditional and scrumptious way to dress them is to slice them and make a sumac dressing:  INGREDIENTS: 4 servings 2 large tomatoes, preferably heirloom 1 [...]
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Salmon with tomato-tamarind sauce

A quick and delicious fish and veggie dish from the unexpandable Nawal Nasrallah’s Delights from the Garden of Eden. Fry an onion, add spices and diced tomatoes, place the salmon in that sauce, bake and less than 10 minutes later, dinner is done. INGREDIENTS: 1 pound of salmon fillet, cut in 4 smaller pieces (can [...]
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Open ravioli with tuna and clam sauce

Chef Mathieu Rostaing Tayard presented a dish titled Opened ravioli (with fava beans and rabbit)Raviole ouverte aux herbes, effilochée de lapin, fèves et crevettes grises and I just loved the concept of an open ravioli. Just keep the stuffing out, or incorporated into the sauce, and voilà! This pasta is doable with stuff  from your [...]
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Tomato and goat cheese risotto

This is a risotto from chef Giovanni Perrone. I think that the idea that one has to cook a risotto in one swoop or else…is a myth. I have made dozens of risottos in two stages, even cooked the rice halfway and finished cooking it the next day and it still turned out fine. I [...]
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Lebanese Gaspacho

A recipe imagined by chef Ornella Hubel that I immediately wanted to try; so cool when chefs create recipes based on our Lebanese culinary heritage. Here, she used chick peas as a base for the soup. The chick peas are pureed and served gaspacho-style with pita croutons, diced tomatoes and a sprinkling of zaatar. A [...]
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