I was asked the other day by a slight acquaintance whether or not my husband cooked at home. I think some men are good cook, some men are not good cook but they are good helper , and then there is the others. The others are the one you don’t want them in the kitchen. My [...]
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Boiling the wheat to make bulgur One of the great inventions of cooks in the Levant is bulgur wheat. Buglur is made by bar-boiling wheat, which is defined first as boiling the wheat, then drying it. Bulgur is an ingredient that adds such a great deal do dishes from that part of the world. It [...]
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To show how music can affect one’s emotions, my husband came home the other day telling me that he had been listening to Andrea Bocelli and Sara Brightman singing “Time to Say Goodbye.” We both sighed, understanding that this song had been our daughter’s favorite when she was between 3 months and two years old. [...]
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when I grew up in Syria, my mother would bring home 20 artichokes at a time from the market so she could prepare them to store over the winter. All of us in the family had to help her by peeling the outer leaves and cleaning the choke (the fine, silky hairs near the heart of [...]
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There is now widespread agreement that obesity is an epidemic, especially among young adult. That is a tragedy. Obesity at young age is a struggle you never outgrow. Of course, along with obesity come deadly adult afflictions-heart disease and diabetes- not o mention low self-esteem. We seem to be dealing with obesity as an action-reaction [...]
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I had set December 1st of each year as the beginning of a month when I would throw food caution to the wind. I pledged that I would not worry about calories, fat, or other ruinous pleasures. During December, I refuse no invitations, nor desserts. I didn’t care. I stayed away from the scale in [...]
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I love a lot of things about Christmas. I love watching my daughter’s decorating her tree with Christmas music playing in the background. I love making Maa’moul and Christmas cookies, I love the smell of the pine candle that my daughter insist in lighting every day in December and I even love shopping for special [...]
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