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tasted good with rice. The salad with its sauce was enough to accompany rice. I have a knack of choosing dry dishes when i eat Chinese or Vietnamese. While reading Chinese cooking, I went duh! if you have to eat with chopsticks then you will not want to pick up sauce with it.
At the Middle eastern store. I found green beans. There was Turkish delight there, with citric acid in ingredients. I was wondering until then, what  might those piles of citric acid be used for? There were bags of dry lemons for which I knew no use of until this article. moghrabieh, a Lebanese product caught my attention too. they reminded me of hand made pearls of dough made in our homes during Vinayaka Chathurthi. When I saw a Lebanese cooking book, I wanted an image. My finger was on Laban immo. Meat looked white washed in yogurt.
We bought bulgur,couscous, vernicelli thin long semiyan as a bad substitute for pheni.

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Fregula looks like Lebanese couscous, Moghrabieh but its baked. I came across Fregula in Michaels genuine food. I went through this book before, but it didnt catch my attention then. Today I had Manaeesh Zataar. We had Indian Fry Bread at Halloween Carnival. A little girl in a mermaid dress said," Hi, hows my costume?' .
You look very good.
The best costune I remember is an old lady in a bathrobe with a befitting mask, a butcher's knife in her hand and house slippers. I almost mistook the costumed for an old lady.
We were early for a better parking space. seeing no signs of carnival, we followed a trio - a mom, a kid in a black overall with a candy pail and grey face. We were led to the other end of the park. We saw kids in costumes like elephant,cop,petal skirt..
when we had enough, we had to walk all the way back. an earnest old couple asked us about the party. We told them that there lay some distance ahead of them. When we reached the car, we found a family with dressed up kids who needed to be told to drive to the other end of the park.

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