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Yeah!!! They just come back into season! Was desperate for one last month but not a one to be found! Bought myself a humongous bag of them and roasted a load of them at once, to stop me getting...
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Oh I LOVE mashed potatoes/sweet potatoes mix!
Half potatoes and the other half sweet potatoes, then add some garlic, fresh tarragon, salt and perhaps some black pepper. Dangerously delicious!
Just a little thing I thought I'd share. For years I've been trying to find out what vegetable molokheyia is - apparently it's Jew's Mallow :)
Also, the popular (and very healthy) drink Helba, is...
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I was not sure about molokhiya on my first trip to Luxor but learned :? to love it!
However after 'smelling' and or eating it for so long whilst living there I now can't eat the stuff.This was...
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We love mint tea, and want to grow mint plants in order to have fresh mint leaves to do it. So, anybody knows what are the rigth seeds? We found that are many types of mint and don't know which...
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Thanks Horus and HEPZIBAH! :)
Mentha Piperita is what we call in Portugal 'Hortela-Pimenta' (peppermint), I will try to find seeds. I'm not sure if it's the same that we just call 'Hortela' and that...
Ive successfully managed to grow some, however, the heads are still small. How do I know when to splice them from the stalk and does anyone have any recipes for cooking artichokes please?
Cool ideas!! I haven't heard of many of these before.
Bed Sheets
After drying my sheets, put both sheets and one
pillowcase in the other pillow case. Fold neatly in a square.
Next time you change...
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:roll: Opened up this thread, started reading and thought to myself 'Oh dear! this looks familiar, poor Wiz is repeating his posts.' Never mind, I kept on reading, found some interesting and useful...
So I have been experimenting with making garlic sauce . . . the kind that I've liked in restaurants is VERY garlicky . . . yummmmm! I found one recipe that is basically mashed garlic with salt. Then...
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Catherine, I'm not a chef, just love garlic with almost any dish.
Your question intrigued me so what does one do, Google Search, naturally.
Karams Garlic Sauce on www.garlicsauce.com add lemon...
On the way back from Medinet Habu, I stopped with my guide, at the Africa restaurant on the West Bank. He ordered a meal which I forgot the name of. All I remember was that there were quite a few...
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If you go to Africa, no dish is called anything! If you ask for a menu, the waiter will say "We have fish, meat, chicken or duck" or something like that. The main dish in your case was fish. The...
Talking to my favourite fruit shop owner tonight in Karnak he intimated that his mother used to make jam / jelly from Pumkin. Knowing that I make jam and preserves he asked if I would try my hand at...
EGYPTIAN RECIPE:
There is little evidence to draw upon regarding Ancient Egyptian recipes, as it would appear that they did not consider it necessary to write them down. Scholars tend to rely on...
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Oh, aren't fava beans and broad beans the same thing My food glossary says so...
i didn't think so as colour separates them as well as size but i could be wrong!!
Bleeding of Colors: Your red shirt got mixed in with other clothes and ruined them? First off, DON'T DRY THEM! Wash again with regular detergent and color-safe bleach. If...
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.....I am currently swearing by Vinegar and Bicarb of Soda. :mrgreen:
I saw a book the other day, the title was something like '1001 things to do with vinegar'. Very few were recipes for eating but...
To clean your kettle of limestone-Put about a couple of tablespoons of white vinegar in the kettle and enough water to the minimum level, and bring to the boil.It works, I've tried it. For cleaning...
I yam uncertain of the best way to cook these so any idea's?
I know I can just treat them like ordinary spuds but there must be some other things that work well with them. I though about mashing...
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I was not too sure about the sweet options. The sweet tooth seems to be souring somewhat these days :roll:
We haven't been to Anita's for ages. Perhaps we should have a working lunch there one day...
I'm used to making bread by hand in the UK and have no problem with local bread whatsoever (love it!) but I've been brought six bread tins from Britain and have had the urge to make...
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Aken Mahaf we have a little Honey Rum liquor, slightly sweet for our rather bitter taste, but wonder if it would be of use in your bread mixes?
FABlux & BBLUX - Thank you!!!
Even though I have stayed in a flat a couple of times in Luxor, I never felt like to cook anything. Well, in Cairo I had a bottle of spiced wine (a traditional thing in Finnish Christmas) I thought I...
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Probably the stuffing I had with the chicken,yesterday.:lol::lol::lol:
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