This spread is particular to Aleppo, Syria where piquant tastes are appreciated. I use this spread on any dish that call for ketchup. You can mix it with hommous and make very intriguing spread. Serve with toasted pita chips in your next football party. We know walnuts are good for the brain and the heart, [...]
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This salad will excite any discriminating taste bud. It is vegan and gluten free. It can be used as spread, as salad or as side dish. Ingredients 2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts 1/2 medium red onion, chopped 1 red bell pepper, chopped 1 yellow bell pepper, chopped 1 jalapeno pepper, chopped 1/2 cup finely chopped [...]
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Could a dish cause war? I would say hummous can. Almost everyone I meet brag to have the original recipe or claim hummous as a native dish. Well, allow me to join the crowd. I use the same recipe that my mom used. My mom would place the dry garbanzo beans in large bowl and cover [...]
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When my daughter and I were debating coloring Easter eggs, I was reminded of how my aunt in Syria used to color wheat stalks when she wove baskets. She used beet juice, which had the most brilliant red color I’ve ever seen. I used to watch her boil the beets, then squeeze the juice out of [...]
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Around this time of year the question I am usually asked by people I meet in the stores or from people who send me e mails is: What do I do with the vegetables and herbs that are coming out of my garden so profusely? It appears that eggplant is the vegetable of choice for [...]
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Most theories hold that eggplant came from India, mostly because there are still some regions in that country where eggplant grows wild. The vegetable most likely went from India to the Arab world, and from there to Europe carried by the Crusaders nearly a thousand years ago. Although it is most widely used now in [...]
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Anyone who has planted zucchini squash will know what the “abundant” means. It is one vegetable that, once planted, resembles Jack’s beanstalk. That is, the zucchini vine never stops growing, so the question now, “what do we do with them all?” And we might wonder why such a plethora of vegetables doesn’t exist with hard [...]
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