hellllloooo. so after skyping with mary and al and whit this weekend, it was brought to my attention that i haven't been a good steward of egyptian food for y'all yet. BUT today is a new day. and today marks my first experience with koshary. koshary could be considered like a national dish of egypt. it's cheap, filling, and everybody eats it. only seconded by fool. yeah, fool. it's a phonetic spelling. fool is like a chick pea paste type thing that they put in sandwiches, eat for breakfast, anything you could think of. once i have great authentic fool i'll post about that. but onto the koshary.
okay so for some reason it wouldn't let me upload a picture, but there's a link to one. so the deal is this. it starts with 2 kinds of pasta, usually spaghetti chopped up short and little disk pasta (i don't know the proper term), then rice, then lentils, then tomato-paste ish sauce and then fried onions (think the top of green bean casserole). it's all layered into a delicious bowl of hot goodness. it literally is one of the best things i've ever put in my mouth (that's what she said). they serve it with this SUPER HOT sauce that i can only handle like a drop of but it's worth it for a little spice.
so there's your lesson for the day. koshary=delicious.
love.
okay i lied about the link. blogspot hates me right now. just google image search koshary and you'll get a feel.
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ReplyDeleteaw man. i accidentally deleted that. now it isn't as funny. sigh. this is what it said though:
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fail. sorry.