I learned to make this dish while visiting my mother-in-law in Syria.  She is a truly amazing woman; she excels at whatever she puts her hands to, and of course she is a fantastic cook!  Since I’m a beginner at speaking Arabic and she’s a beginner at speaking English, our time together in the kitchen involved a lot of pointing, gesturing, nodding, and excitement when the other person finally understood what was being communicated.  But that just made it all the more memorable.    In Syria, the zucchini is a lot smaller than the zucchini typically found here (a 6” zucchini there is pretty big!), so […]...

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