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  SWEET TEMPTATION ARMENIAN PRESERVES & JAMS #մուրաբա #ArmenianPreserves #ArmenianJams UNIQUE PRESENTATION BY THE ART TEAM @ THE ART OF ARMENIAN & MIDDLE EASTERN COOKING Thin, dried sheets of fruit juice (BASTEGH) -Mari Setian 2 qts. applesauce 1/4 cup sugar 1 qt. l00% grape juice 2-1/4 cups flour Place applesauce into 4-quart saucepan. Blend small amount of flour (1/2 cup) in 1 cup of grape juice in jar and shake. Put through strainer into applesauce. Repeat process until all flour and grape juice is used up. Blend. Bring to a boil stirring constantly until mixture thickens. Add sugar and stir while boiling for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Place 4 sheets of newspaper on table with 3O"x30" wide cotton sheet of cloth on top. Pour 1/2 mixture on one sheet. Spread evenly with long, butcher knife. Repeat the same with rest of mixture. Let set on table for 7 hours then hang cloth by edges for 5 hours. Then turn cloth and hang by opposite end and leave overnight. Check af

  For amazing recipes, check out this Pinterest board and follow BaysideLu :    The Recipe Selections     Crackers Recipe to try - I haven't tried it yet 4   tablespoons flour (your choice, I use Namaste Gluten Free Flour Blend) 4   tablespoons oil (your choice, I use Olive Oil) salt spices 2   cups lentils (cooked, I used split red lentils) Parchment paper Salt and spices Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Take your 2 cups of cooked salted lentils (salt lentils as they cook in water).  You want them to be fully cooked and mushy. I didn't have hardly any excess water by the time mine were done.  If you do, drain it off. I cooked a 1 pound bag of lentils and used the rest in other ways.  You can certainly make a really large batch, but you'll need to adjust the proportions. Put your 2 cups of cooked lentils in a bowl.  Add flour, oil and salt to taste if desired.  Mix it all up with a spoon or your hands (I wet my hands to work wit

 Armenian Tahini Bread - Tahinov Hatz We have it during lenten times, it's so delicious! Ingredients Bread: 2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast 3/4 cup water 105-115˚F 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil Filling: 1 cup tahini sesame paste 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar 2 teaspoons cinnamon optional Topping: Olive oil for brushing Remaining sugar with or without cinnamon Sesame seeds for sprinkling

 To try some of these recipes and add my comments: 1. Carrot cookies, no bake 1 cup raisins 1 cup baby carrots ½ tbsp. pure vanilla extracts powder ¼ cup slivered almonds Instructions In a food processor combine all the ingredients (except almonds) and pulse a dough starts to form. Take it out in a bowl and fold in slivered almonds. Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Divide the dough into 6 equal parts and form round cookie shapes between palms. Place the cookies gently on the cookie sheet and freeze it for 10 minutes. Take it out and enjoy immediately or store in the refrigerator in a glass container. My notes to add here:    Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies        

 This is a message from my girlfriend F. stick cloves in mandarines or oranges to keep the house smelling good. And if you burn something in the kitchen boil some eater with cinnamon in it. If you grow a vegetable/fruit garden sprinkle salt around the plants so slugs and snails won’t eat the plants because it melts them down on the way to their feast. A cut lemon too in the fridge is the same as a bowl of arm and hammer baking soda to absorb the refrigerator odors. Want fruit to ripen fast, put 1 lemon in the bag or bowl with them. Use with avocados and peaches and all those fruit they harvest so hard and Unripened. A bowl of vinegar attracts those fruit flies in the house. Sprinkle lemon juice with salt on ants coming into the house or even around the rims of the house outside or around the outer rims of your patio so ants don’t approach. Can also add vinegar to this if you want. Toilet clogged ? This works faster than all those liquid products even those comme

  Orange, cardamom and almond cake with orange-blossom yoghurt Recipe from Gourmet Traveller (December 2009/January 2010 issue) Ingredients 2 oranges, washed 250g caster sugar 1/2 tsp ground cardamom pinch of ground cinnamon 300g blanched almonds, finely ground in a food processor (I used store bought almond meal instead) 1 tsp baking powder 5 eggs Puring icing sugar, for dusting Orange-blossom yoghurt 150g thick natural yoghurt 20g pure icing sugar 1-2 tsp orange blossom water, to taste

  HISTORY OF BASTURMA Armenian: ԱՊՈՒԽՏ via FB Les Recettes Arméniennes !!!! group   Also called Bastirma or Pastirma, is an air-dried cured beef which has been strongly seasoned and is popularly consumed in the former Ottoman countries.The Bastirma is derived from Turkish word bastırma et . Bastirma et is non-finite verb of the word bastırmak , which means “to depress or restrain”. Various types of Bastirma recipes are enjoyed throughout the Eastern Europe. The Bastirma is famous throughout the region with names such as pastërma in Albania, basterma in Arabia, basturma in Armenia, basdırma in Azerbaijan, pastrma in Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia, pastărma in Bulgaria, pastourmás or pastroumás in Greece, and pastramă in Romania. Many people confuse Bastirma with pastrami which is a different type of meat preparation which has Yiddish origins. It is variously known as pastirma to (pastrómeh) in Yiddish. History of Pastirma:- The first recorded mention of Basturma dates back to 9