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Thanksgiving Menu Ideas

By Maureen Abood On November 26, 2013 · 15 Comments · In Favorite Things, Stories and Recipes
  Rev up your Dansko clogs, my friends. It’s Thanksgiving game on. I suspect you’ve got the star of the show, your turkey ideas, well in hand (will you brine? Fry? Or just let someone else worry about it?). We are brining and roasting two turkeys, mid-sized (Mom says no smaller than 15 pounds each; [...]
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Listen to “From the Kitchen, A Family Farewell for My Father”

By Maureen Abood On June 15, 2013 · 14 Comments · In Stories and Recipes
  Some of you say, “Joy is greater thar sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.” But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. –Kahlil Gibran (Happy Father’s Day to all of [...]
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Our Thanksgiving Menu, with little ideas, recipes and tips

By Maureen Abood On November 19, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Menus
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~Khalil Gibran While cooking: Beaujolais nouveaux, fatayar nibble (made ahead). Before and with dinner: Bubbly, Pinot Noir, and Sancerre. Roasted Turkey, all natural and organic, from Peggy’s [...]
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Chicken Rice Pilaf, Hushweh, and from the kitchen, a family farewell for my father

By Maureen Abood On December 8, 2011 · 54 Comments · In Chicken, Fish, Beef, Lamb, Fall, Gluten-Free, Grains and Legumes, Stories and Recipes, Winter, Yogurt, Labneh and Laban
This essay Lebanese Chicken Rice Pilaf, Hushweh, about was my first food-related publication, which happened to include a recipe for hushweh. It appeared in the Washington Post in 2004. The Association of Food Journalists awarded the essay first place in one of its competitions that year, and the essay won me the Greenbrier Scholarship to [...]
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Lebanese hushweh, chicken rice pilaf

Technique: How to roast chicken for Lebanese hushwe

By Maureen Abood On December 7, 2011 · 17 Comments · In Chicken, Fish, Beef, Lamb, Fall, Stories and Recipes, Techniques, Winter
We’re cooking something very special this week here on Main Street, and hopefully in your kitchen too. Hushwe is the ultimate Lebanese comfort food. A cinnamon-scented rice pilaf with beef, chicken, and nuts, hushwe packs a punch on the nutrition front. Its savory, and if you dare, buttery blend will fill you with a feeling [...]
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Thanksgiving table

Thanksgiving Menu Ideas

By Maureen Abood On November 26, 2013 · 15 Comments · In Favorite Things, Stories and Recipes
  Rev up your Dansko clogs, my friends. It’s Thanksgiving game on. I suspect you’ve got the star of the show, your turkey ideas, well in hand (will you brine? Fry? Or just let someone else worry about it?). We are brining and roasting two turkeys, mid-sized (Mom says no smaller than 15 pounds each; [...]
Read More »

Listen to “From the Kitchen, A Family Farewell for My Father”

By Maureen Abood On June 15, 2013 · 14 Comments · In Stories and Recipes
  Some of you say, “Joy is greater thar sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.” But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. –Kahlil Gibran (Happy Father’s Day to all of [...]
Read More »

Our Thanksgiving Menu, with little ideas, recipes and tips

By Maureen Abood On November 19, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Menus
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~Khalil Gibran While cooking: Beaujolais nouveaux, fatayar nibble (made ahead). Before and with dinner: Bubbly, Pinot Noir, and Sancerre. Roasted Turkey, all natural and organic, from Peggy’s [...]
Read More »

Chicken Rice Pilaf, Hushweh, and from the kitchen, a family farewell for my father

By Maureen Abood On December 8, 2011 · 54 Comments · In Chicken, Fish, Beef, Lamb, Fall, Gluten-Free, Grains and Legumes, Stories and Recipes, Winter, Yogurt, Labneh and Laban
This essay Lebanese Chicken Rice Pilaf, Hushweh, about was my first food-related publication, which happened to include a recipe for hushweh. It appeared in the Washington Post in 2004. The Association of Food Journalists awarded the essay first place in one of its competitions that year, and the essay won me the Greenbrier Scholarship to [...]
Read More »
Lebanese hushweh, chicken rice pilaf

Technique: How to roast chicken for Lebanese hushwe

By Maureen Abood On December 7, 2011 · 17 Comments · In Chicken, Fish, Beef, Lamb, Fall, Stories and Recipes, Techniques, Winter
We’re cooking something very special this week here on Main Street, and hopefully in your kitchen too. Hushwe is the ultimate Lebanese comfort food. A cinnamon-scented rice pilaf with beef, chicken, and nuts, hushwe packs a punch on the nutrition front. Its savory, and if you dare, buttery blend will fill you with a feeling [...]
Read More »
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