Ahh, the common excuse returns again! Yup, time, or the lack of it, is the reason there has not been a post in a long while. I have been cooking, it's just getting myself to the computer that is a chore. Yesterday i made the now infamous brown sugar cookies! My sister, my dad, and me are the only fans of these delectable, buttery, chewy cookies! my mom and brother would rather have chocolate chip cookies i suppose. Anyway, i have started to work on my powerpoint for this project, so far i'm on the history part of cooking. I hope to soon bring myself to doing the modern day cooking aspect, but it's vacation, and i'm not really into working!! Lazy, lazy, i know...but it's nice to have a break once in a while, after all, college stuff seems to be bogging me down! it's like it all hits you at once, and it's hard to plow through it all.... anyway, i'll stop complaining...hopefully i'll update sooner than later and keep on going with this project!

I'm Back!!!

It seems like years since I last entered anything on this blog....well, I'm not too far off since my last entry was last year!! Anyway, with 2010 came more free time to cook, as an injury has made it impossible for me to continue track... why is it that i always get hurt? Anyway, so yesterday i got back into the swing of things and actually cooked dinner! the meal consisted of Kibbeh, mashed potatoes, and sauteed spinach. Kibbeh is the official dish of Lebanon and consists of a mixture of ground lamb, sautéed onions,cinnamon and allspice. this mixture is layered between a mixture of lamb, cinnamon, allspice, onion and bulgur, which is finely blended in a food processor. Now, normally there is ground lamb readily available at Stop and Shop or Walmart. But, PETA must have rescued all the lambs because I could not find ground lamb anywhere!!! So, as i stood in the meat section of stop and shop, pondering over what course of action i should take, a group of packaged ground meat caught my eye. Could it be!? Nope, just ground buffalo... Wait, ground buffalo!? It looked eerily similar in texture, so on a whim, i thought, hey, why not? So, instead of lamb kibbeh as is traditional, my family was introduced to buffalo meat in a buffalo kibbeh! It was quite delicious, cooked fast, and on further research, is very low in fat. Not bad for a whim! the rest of the meal turned out quite well also, and i was very happy. It was a great re-ignition of my project!