Posted on April 21st, 2010 by sanaacooks
More gluten free flour choices for your cooking: Arrowroot flour: Arrowroot flour is ground from the root of the plant. It is tasteless which make it an excellent thickening in any recipe. Buckwheat flour: The kernels can be pulverized in a food processor to make flour. This flour has strong nutty flavor and it is [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2010 by sanaacooks
Growing up I knew of two kind of flour; dark-whole wheat flour- or white flour -bleached-. For me wheat flour was the only choice because wheat was the grain that planted there. In Latin America, corn is easier to come by that wheat. The result is that cooking with corn flour is a staple in [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2010 by sanaacooks
Several members of my restaurant staff are from Mexico. I learned from them a novel way of celebrating the New Year. As the New Year approached and we were busy preparing for our lunch rush, I noticed my staff exchanging bags and handfuls of lentils. I had to ask what it was all about. I [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2009 by sanaacooks
A number of years ago we spent Christmas holiday in Florence, Italy. On Christmas Eve, we took 30 minutes drive to Siena. Although every Italian city and village has a city plaza, or piazza, Siena’s is different, it is fan shaped, and slopes downward to the base of the fan where a beautiful Catholic church [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2009 by sanaacooks
In the Provence region of France, Christmas Eve dinner quite often ends with thirteen different desserts, symbolizing Jesus and the twelve apostles. When we hear the phrase, “….and visions of sugar plums danced in their heads,” we are told by food historians that it derives from the custom, originating during Queen Victoria’s reign in the [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2009 by sanaacooks
In Eastern Orthodox faith, Christmas is celebrated two weeks later than in most other Christian faiths. And, of course, although Muslims in the Levant do not celebrate this holiday, they participate in the Santa Claus tradition so their children do not fee left out. In fact, in Damascus, each neighborhood hires someone to play Santa [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2009 by sanaacooks
Everyday until Christmas, I will post a Christmas tradition from around the world and recipe for a gluten free dessert. In France, the Christmas tree is put up and decorated on the morning of December 24th, and the day ends with an elaborate dinner. In Damascus, the same is done, most likely reflecting the fact [...]
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