So last week, Sunday, Khaled and I were looking through the grocery ads and I found cabbage as the loss leader for the week.  To me, cabbage in the winter means corned beef and cabbage, and summer means hobo dinner and mashi!  Maybe it’s spelled Mahshi.  I’m not sure, but for those of you who don’t know Mashi, if you are married to an Egyptian, you’ve had it at sometime at some relative’s house.  If you had Mashi Cromb it was vegetarian… Read more

In the interest of consuming the most healthful foods, buying less processed foods that we can make ourselves and saving a little money, we have been making our own soymilk.  It’s a fairly easy process, and since there are only 2 of us that drink soymilk in the family, one batch lasts 3 weeks.  The byproduct is called Okara, which we have been using, in combination with chickpeas to make Ta’amaia (Filafel).  Now, I know that using chickpeas isn’t Egyptian…. Read more