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MAGDOUS
Ingredients
Eggplants
Sweet red pepper paste
Crushed walnuts
Olive oil
Salt
Sliced garlic (optional)
The stuffing
Mix together the sweet red pepper paste with the crushed walnuts and the garlic.
MOUHAMMARA
Ingredients
100 gr. bread crumbs
50 gr. sweet red pepper paste
10 gr. crushed dried hot red pepper
20 gr. cumin
40 gr. concentrated pomegranate syrup
100 ml. olive oil
100 gr. crushed walnut
150 ml. water
20 ml. lemon juice
15 gr. sugar
Salt
VEGETABLES OMELET (EJJEH)
Ingredients
1 bunch of parsley
7 eggs
1 teaspoon of flour
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon of dried mint
1 teaspoon of dried sweet red pepper
1 pinch of cinnamon
200 ml. olive oil
Vegetable oil
EGGPLANT FATTOUCHE
Ingredients
1 kg. eggplant
2 tomatoes
1 onion
1 bunch of parsley
Lemon juice
Olive oil
Vegetable oil
Arabic bread
Salt
MOUTABBAL
Ingredients
500 gr. eggplant
1 green pepper
1/2 bunch of chopped parsley
4 branches of green mint
150 gr. sesame oil
1/2 glass of lemon juice
25 gr. concentrated pomegranate syrup
30 ml. olive oil
1 tomato
1 clove of garlic if desired
some grains of pomegranate
Salt
BABA GHANOUGE
Ingredients
1 kg. eggplant (about 5 big pieces)
Olive oil
Garlic (optional)
Lemon juice
Concentrated pomegranate syrup
Chopped parsley
Pomegranate grains
Salt
OLIVE SALAD
Ingredients
250 gr. green olives
60 gr. concentrated pomegranate syrup
40 ml. olive oil
2 green onions
1 peeled tomato
1/2 bunch of parsley
Grains of one pomegranate for decoration
Salt
Branch of thyme for decoration
FATTOUCHE
Ingredients
500 gr. tomato
500 gr. cucumber
100 gr. onion
75 gr. green mint
75 gr. purslane
1 bunch of parsley
1 lettuce
2 cloves of garlic
50 gr. of black olives
1 lemon juice
3 teaspoons of vinegar
1 teaspoon of sumac
125 ml. olive oil
Vegetable oil
Bread cut into triangles as desired
Salt
Written Nov 14, 2011
Helpfulness
We found what appeared to be one of the world's oldest toilets still in use. The Azem Palace has a toilet, for use by both men and women oddly enough, over which one squats. There is a place for each foot, and one squats rather than sits. Having learned about this type of toilet elsewhere, I have since tended to squat, rather than sit over virtually any toilet for fear of making contact between my body and whatever may be on the porcelin receptical. In any case, a hose was nearby to rinse down the entire unit and make everything flow into the ceramic piping below.
Written Mar 29, 2006
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Afamia... among the more normal colums of the cardo, the ones everyone's got used to seeing.. there are some truly peculiar and unique ones. They date back to the 2nd centura and have "unusual carved designs and (...) twisted fluting" - now this description is not my own, but I could not come up with a good one to describe them. Why are they like this? A local VTer, interested in archaeology, explained that the twistings wanted to recall the image of palm trees, from which I would guess that - in the past - would have been found in the area.
Written Jan 11, 2003
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Forget romanticism: bedouin life is changing in Syria, too. People are becoming less of a nomad and they are getting used to live in houses more. I have had the pleasure to be invited by some friendly bedouin women for chai near Qasr Ibn Wardan - and even if i did not stay for too long it's obvious that there are starting to be some problems among bedouin people. Abandoning their nomadic lifestyle and becoming more "sedentary" has meant that many have now access to some degrees of formal education. However, a problem I came across by speaking to one of the girls, is that the new generation has made this life-style their own, and see future in education. Her parents, however, have never quite settled down in this "new" reality and try to bring forth their traditional way of living... which for a woman means to get married and help her husband or family in farming - at the expense of education. She was really sad by this family imposition to give up going to school to be useful to the family - and so seemed to be her sisters. She also had worried about the future laying ahead for her baby daughter, a worry I can easily share. I guess that, as Syria moves ahead, only time will tell how life for these welcoming people will be. I surely wish them - women especially - more opportunities in life, more alternatives.
Written Jan 11, 2003
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