This weekend I went to a local Middle Eastern food market and got some stuff.
I also made a couple of videos about the experience.
Links to the things I was talking about: Fava Beans; The Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare Song [video] (from Iolanthe; with Mixed Pickles); and Peter Piper.
More links: hummus, tahini, baba ghanoush, imam bayeldi, paneer, dolma
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One of the joys of travelling to the Holy Land is experiencing the Middle Eastern foods. So many wonderful spices and flavors. Makes me wish I was close to a Middle Eastern restaurant or grocer right now.
If you are looking to find uses for Rose water. I highly recommend this… http://www.slashfood.com/2010/04/16/rose-infused-strawberry-sorbet-feast-your-eyes/
One thing I miss is a hummus sandwich. Where we were, you could buy roasted chicken, hummus with flat bread with pickled vegetables. We used the hummus like mayo – then chicken. yum. I found out I can not eat a lot of pickled things – they cause me to have migraines.
I also miss the variety (thousands it seemed like) of olives..
Happy eating.
Since a lot of the taste of pickling is vinegar, maybe you could have hummus, chicken, veggies, and a splash of vinegar? Sorta like a vinegar and oil dressing.
I would try more Middle Eastern food, but you are what you eat, and I’m worried it might make me felafel.
Sorry.
“Interesting in a mild sort of way.”
Yup.
Onion bread, potato noodles, mint syrup, rice? What happened to the low-carbing Jimmy?!
You know what Jimmy? Somehow I though that your home was going to be have stacks an stacks of books all the way to the ceiling, all over the place.
Deacon Harbey Santiago
Archdiocese of Baltimore
It depends on which way you point the camera.
Actually, I do have tons (literally) of books, but the kind of “stacks” they are in are the kind that you find in a library–i.e., orderly shelves. I’ve got about 4,000 books (I think), which are divided into over 100 categories, alphabetized, and on a little more than twelve 7-foot oak shelves.
I worked hard to get my library into its current state of organization, so I’m kinda proud of it.
BillyHW wrote:
Onion bread, potato noodles, mint syrup, rice? What happened to the low-carbing Jimmy?!
Shocking as it may be, I had to go off my low carb diet for a while. I look forward to getting back on it in the not-too-distant future! (But in the meantime, I’m loving all this food I didn’t previously get to eat!)
I just moved and had to carry my library (about 3000 books) onto and off of the moving van. Great way to lose weight. What happens to all of those books when one dies? Who would want a 1973 physics text or an 1878 book introducing the metric system to the United States? I have autographed books by Ray Bradbury. I have an almost complete run of Ellery Queen magazines from 1949 to 1957. In this computer age, does anyone want books anymore?
Interesting question: can one have too many books?
The Chicken
TMC,
Unless I’m wrong, I believe Pope Benedict has around 20,000 books, so it sounds like you have some catching up to do.
In other words, no, one can’t have too many books.
Ahhhh…the benefits of living in Dearborn, MI! There are three Lebanese restaurants within a two minute walk of my house!
This is a little off the topic, but for those who may not know, Dearborn has the largest concentration of Arab Muslims in North America. And while there are many Evangelical Christian churches and parachurch organizations working to evangelize our Muslim neighbors, I’m unaware of any Catholic groups attempting to do so
Please pray for Muslims in Dearborn, the U.S., and the entire world to hear, believe, and obey the Gospel! Pray for Catholics in the metro-Detroit area to be burdened for our Muslim neighbors, to befriend them, pray for them, and love them into Christ’s kingdom!
Jimmy,
I enjoyed your videos. Peter piper may have picked a peck but the rhyme never says from where, maybe out of a barrel. This would explain how they were pickled before picked.
Rose water is used in queen cakes.
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