Sorry, no recipes, just names of dishes.dragonbat2006April 24 2011, 16:29:10 UTC
You should check out 7-vegetable couscous, tabouli, felafel, and vegetable tagine. There are many different recipes--I usually just grab whatever is in the... cookbooks I cannot access on Passover.
hey cool, it looks like there's a lot of good stuff on there. thanks!
this is pretty vague, but i was invited to a passover dinner last year & we ate this pretty amazing mashed up walnut-fruit dish. it may have been served around the same time as the radishes, & meant to symbolise the mortar the jews had to mix when they were slaves of the egyptians. do you know what this is called? it was really delicious..
The usual Arab fare - tabouleh, falafel, hummous, fatouche.
Baba ghanouj.
I'm not sure I'd classify Moroccan cuisine as Middle Eastern. Mediterranean and/or North African. But not Middle Eastern.
Speaking of which, I'd love a North African tag. The cuisine of the Arab countries of North Africa can be quite distinct from the cuisine of the Middle East or sub-Saharan African countries.
that's a really good point. i might end up calling it veganism of the middle east & maghreb, or something. definition of the middle east is riddled with enough (usually ethnocentric) problems anyway.
My ex is Moroccan and some of my best friends are Lebanese. I've been exposed to both types of cuisine and they're not really similar.
And I agree that Middle East, as a geo-political term, is problematic. I've seen it applied to areas as diverse as North Africa through Afghanistan, with little regard to the inherent differences of culture, ethnicity, religion or language.
You used to volunteer with the ISM? That's brilliant. I've long wanted to participate in some way.
for sure. when i started learning arabic i was really surprised to discover that native speakers actually use the direct translation of the term (sharq al-awsat) too. i found it interesting (perhaps alarming) that our ambiguous terminology/perception of the region had become so prevalent as to be employed by people from there too.
re: ISM, yeah! i was in the west bank for nine months, mostly in the nablus region. it was amazing, though if i went back again (my name's on the blacklist now, so i have no idea if that will ever happen) i'm not sure if i'd join ISM again to be honest. it was good once, but if i was to return i'd really like to do something more focused.... 70% of the time you had the feeling of running around like a chicken with your head cut off, trying to chase/run away from settlers while wielding a video camera or something... which palestinians are pretty good at doing themselves anyway.
I've seen a bunch of Middle Eastern (or maybe North African) recipes on the VeganDad blog, but I just checked and it doesn't seem like there are any tags for them. It might be worth checking out, though!
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this is pretty vague, but i was invited to a passover dinner last year & we ate this pretty amazing mashed up walnut-fruit dish. it may have been served around the same time as the radishes, & meant to symbolise the mortar the jews had to mix when they were slaves of the egyptians. do you know what this is called? it was really delicious..
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Baba ghanouj.
I'm not sure I'd classify Moroccan cuisine as Middle Eastern. Mediterranean and/or North African. But not Middle Eastern.
Speaking of which, I'd love a North African tag. The cuisine of the Arab countries of North Africa can be quite distinct from the cuisine of the Middle East or sub-Saharan African countries.
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And I agree that Middle East, as a geo-political term, is problematic. I've seen it applied to areas as diverse as North Africa through Afghanistan, with little regard to the inherent differences of culture, ethnicity, religion or language.
You used to volunteer with the ISM? That's brilliant. I've long wanted to participate in some way.
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re: ISM, yeah! i was in the west bank for nine months, mostly in the nablus region. it was amazing, though if i went back again (my name's on the blacklist now, so i have no idea if that will ever happen) i'm not sure if i'd join ISM again to be honest. it was good once, but if i was to return i'd really like to do something more focused.... 70% of the time you had the feeling of running around like a chicken with your head cut off, trying to chase/run away from settlers while wielding a video camera or something... which palestinians are pretty good at doing themselves anyway.
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