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Does anyone have suggestions on how to make football-shaped kibbeh? I found a vegetarian recipe (uses TVP) that looks pretty easy to veganize (soyogurt/blended tofu for the eggs), but like many recipes, it seems you press it in a pan, cut into little diamond shapes, and bake. The football recipes involve making a shell of pureed meat and bulghur to ( Read more... )

Maybe I am just imagining that what I just made is Lebanese because I am still mourning the loss of my favorite San Diego Lebanese joint, which has turned into another taco stand :( I had something that was SO good there and I can't remember the name (or if it had chicken even, since I used to eat meat when I went there) but I tried my best ( Read more... )

I want to make baba ghannouj, but last time I did it, it came out totally bland. After reading some more, the problem was probably just oven-baking the eggplant. Any suggestions on how to roast it in/on my gas oven/range to bring out the flavor?

This is an easy, though time consuming, dish. It serves 6-8 and freezes very well. I like to make it before weeks during which I know I'll be too busy to do much cooking.
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does anybody have a good recipe for citric cous cous??? something that would go well with shish kabobs.

and while i'm at it, anyone have a good tofu marinate for shish kabobs???

thanks!

wishing to indulge on a little holiday sugar binge? if so, this is perfect ( Read more... )

( two middle eastern, one pasta sauce )

So I've been on a bit of a middle eastern kick for the past couple days, and I figured I'd share some new recipes I've learned. I've been collecting recipes for a while to add to a cookbook I've been working on, and these are some of the new ones for the middle eastern food section I've gotten from some Lebanese friends.

( So here we have two of my favorites, Fool and Koussa )

This evening, my brother and I made a Lebanese-style feast for our parents' 30th wedding anniversary. The idea was to feed the four of us plus Granny, but this lot made enough for another couple of hungry people at least, especially since I also made a chocolate cake for afterwards. I'm the only vegan, and my brother made a few meat kebabs on the ( Read more... )