Tag: cardamom

Cardamom-Date Cookies: Manal Alalem, The Role Model

04/27/2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

NON-SPONSORED POST  Older generations of Middle Eastern home cooks, as I knew them, were inarguably gifted, but they seldom wrote down a recipe.  And if they did, it was more likely to be inaccurate.  They tended to mainly rely on memory and skip measurements altogether.  Recipes have been handed down from generation to generation, if […]

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Lola’s Rice Pudding: The Bitter Sweet Memory

07/18/2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

  Rice pudding is almost a universal spoon dessert.  It comes in various versions, it is either cooked on a stovetop or baked, eggless or eggy, bland, or spiced up. Rice pudding remains a comfort food that evokes sweet childhood memories across the universe.  My personal predilection goes for the simplest, fluffiest, creamiest, and eggless. […]

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