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Your favorite recipes of 2012, and a new way to find them

Mujadara with fork POST

It is striking to me to see how, in the year and a half since Rose Water & Orange Blossoms came on the scene, there are certain posts that pull new visitors from around the world again and again to … Continue reading

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A Fall Football Menu: Tailgating, Abood-style

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When you grow up in a college town like I did, you end up spending all of your fall Saturdays in the stadium watching football games. That was fun…but let’s face it, the tailgate party before the game has always … Continue reading

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A June Menu: Lebanese Lunch Alfresco

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There are few things we Aboods enjoy more than sitting around talking about what to cook and what to eat next. I suspect the same is true for at least some of you…. We get after it whether there’s a … Continue reading

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Lebanese Spinach Pies, or fatayar, or whatever

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You’d think I’ve been taking entrance exams for a job at Cook’s Illustrated. I imagine one of the more challenging tests they could give an aspiring test kitchen cook there would be: figure out how to make spinach fatayar that … Continue reading

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Technique: How to roll dough for fatayar, spinach pies

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Like talami dough, the dough for fatayar is different than standard bread dough. This dough is not nearly as wet as talami dough, but it is a sticky dough that takes just one rise (typically bread-baking is a two-rise process). … Continue reading

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Ingredient: Spinach

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Lebanese cuisine makes it easy to eat your spinach (or your Swiss Chard, as the case may be). My fresh bag full of curly, gorgeous spinach came from Pond Hill Farm, where they grow their greens in a bright white … Continue reading

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