makes 6 Domes 8 filo dough sheets, covered with moist kitchen towel to prevent drying 1/2 cup coconut oil 2 tablespoons coco powder 2 tablespoons sugar 3 tablespoons chopped candied orange peel or orange marmalade 1 cup coarsely chopped toasted [...]
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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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Despite all the lecturing I do to people about healthy eating, I have no willpower when it comes to ice cream. The years of knowledge I’ve accumulated about nutrition vanish into thin air when I enter good ice cream shop. Like most people, I would have thought this wonderful dish was created in a cold [...]
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serves 6 1/2 cup short grain rice 4 cups almond milk 5 tablespoons corn starch 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup coconut flakes 1/4 cup slivered almonds 1 teaspoon orange blossom water 2 [...]
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One of my favorite dessert is candied orange skin dipped in dark chocolate. I call them my calming drug. No, matter how tired I am, give me couple or more of candied orange peel and I am a happy person. I am, as always, amazed with our ancestor’s creativity. How they developed ways to use [...]
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This bread pudding is an Egyptian dessert that can please any palate. As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of all invention. As the story goes, Um Ali, which means the mother of Ali in Arabic, was a life saver for her village and for all dry bread. The story goes, that during [...]
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We all have our own variety of “comfort food,”particular items or dishes that calm our nerves. Mine is chocolate. To be more specific, dark chocolate. I can be in the worst mood ever, but after a few minutes of intake of the magic food, I’m transported to high levels of ecstasy. On those occasions when [...]
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