Dinner was an assembly of things I bought before the HO dinner from the lovely Sahadi’s and delicious Damascus.
Chicken pies / fatayer, lahambajeen (lahmacun), giant fava beans that were purchased. Plus I improvised garlic labne plus harissa and olive oil and heated some leftover pita. (Missed parsley-onion-sumac salad for the lahambajeen, because I forgot to buy parsley.)
It’s interesting to me that the texture of these jumbo beans is so much better when purchased vs made at home, because I don’t find it to be the case for any other beans.
I’ve made fatayer at home and they’re better, but buying them is so much easier!
The lahambajeen were frozen because I wanted the larger size vs. the snack size ones that were fresh, but the owner highly recommended the frozen ones so I went for them, and he was right - the topping is very flavorful and they reheated very well.
Rest of both have fed the freezer for the future.
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