Posted on June 28th, 2010 by sanaacooks
It is officially summer which means the opening season for picnics. Whatever the menu in any picnic, there is always a potato salad on the table. I pride myself of trying every dish that someone bring to a gathering, the only exception is the potato salad. Don’t misunderstand me, I like potato salad like most [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2010 by sanaacooks
When my husband’s sister, Virginia, was alive, she kept the entire family amused by denying her age. Some people call it “lying” about one’s age, but with Virginia, we always called it “being in denial.” For example, one day at lunch, her daughter told us that she was having her 50th birthday the second day. [...]
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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 April 7th, 2010 by sanaacooks
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 Achoke@ (the fine, silky hairs near the heart [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2010 by sanaacooks
Developing methods to preserve foods is as old as civilization itself, so in itself that’s not a bad thing. For example, canning food, dehydrating and pickling vegetables during the summer to be used in the winter months is, of course, acceptable. My grandmother in Syria used to chop up lamb meat and cook it in [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2010 by sanaacooks
How many of us take the time and the trouble to read ingredient label on the packaged food we buy in the supermarkets? My guess is that not too many of us. I do, mostly because that was part of my training as a nutritionist, and is part of my psyche. While many of us [...]
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