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Green Salad with Toasted Pita Bread
This tart, pungent salad is a favorite throughout Syria.
Sour Spearmint Sauce with Meatballs
Hamud is usually a sauce for rice, but it can also be served as a soup.
Bulgur Wheat and Walnut Salad
Fine-grain bulgur wheat is essential for this dish.
Bulgur Wheat and Ground Beef Pie
Kibbeh, a masterpiece of Middle Eastern cooking with many variations, can be baked, poached, steamed, or fried.
Stuffed Grape Leaves with Apricots
In the Syrian Jewish kitchen, this Middle Eastern basic gets a sweet-and-sour spin.
Venison Terrine with Red Currant Sauce
While visiting Sweden we were served this traditional-style terrine.
Baked Apples
These baked apples may be served as dessert or to accompany mustard-glazed ham and other julbord meats.
Beet and Herring Salad
Christer Larsson of Christer's restaurant in New York shared the recipe for this Christmas classic with us.
Swedish Meatballs
These delicate meatballs, far from the American idea of "Swedish meatballs".
Rice Pudding
Lighter than most rice puddings, and not as sweet, this Swedish specialty is eaten both as a dessert and as a breakfast food.
Pickled Herring
A swedish feast would not be complete without pickled herring.
Mustard-Glazed Christmas Ham
This is how the Swedes do Christmas ham.
Mustard Herring
This recipe came from Ulrika Bengtsson, chef at the Swedish consulate in New York.
Jansson's Temptation
This dish may have been named for an ascetic 19th-century religious zealot who enjoyed it on the sly.
Butter Balls
These melt-in-your-mouth cookies are dredged twice in powdery sugar to insure the sweetest of treat.