Fried Eggs with White Cheese (Beed ma'li gibna beeda)

Ingredients:

* 4-6 slices hard white cheese

* 4-6 eggs

* cooking oil or spray

* salt & pepper

Instructions:

*  Slice the cheese 1/2 inch thick & fry in skillet, turning & frying on both sides.   Remove the cheese to one side of the serving dish, keeping warm.  Break eggs and fry in the same fat.   Serve the eggs alongside the cheese and season with taste. Garnish as desired.

*  Here in Europe, I used fresh cheese from here, which I found at Kaufland, Billa, Carrefour, since Gibna or local Egyptian cheese, is not available here.

Cucumber Chickpea Salad

Ingredients:

• * 2 can chickpeas, drained
  
• * 1 cup chopped tomatoes ( or more if you like tomatoes)
  
• * 1/2 cup minced onions
  
• * 1/2 cup sliced celery
  
• * 1 cucumber sliced and chopped
  
• * 2 teaspoons minced garlic
  
• * 1 teaspoon dill weed
  
• * salt & pepper
  
• * 3 teaspoons red wine vinegar
  
• * 1/2 cup olive oil
  

Instructions:

* Mix oil & vinegar well and set aside.
* Combine all other ingredients and toss with the oil and vinegar mixture. Chill before serving and garnish with fresh parsley, if desired.

Colorful Stuffed Sweet Peppers (Filfil rumi mahsi MaAa lon)

Ingredients:

3 large sweet peppers, green, yellow, orange or red

2 Tb. unsalted butter

2/3 c. corn kernels off the cob or canned

1 small onion chopped

¾ lb. Italian sausage turkey links, sweet or hot

2 c. crumbled corn bread (approx)

¾ c. shredded pepper jack cheese*

Instructions:

• Heat over to 350F. Slice peppers in half from stem to bottom and remove stem. Also remove seeds and membranes, and set aside.
• Melt butter in skillet. Add onion, corn and sausage, breaking the sausage apart with a spoon or spatula, and cook until the sausage is no longer pink. Add crumbled corn bread and a little water if mixture seems too dry.
• Divide filling among peppers evenly and top with shredded cheese. Bake peppers at 350F, covered, for about 30 minutes or until cheese is melted and peppers are tender.

* If pepper jack cheese is unavailable, use shredded mozzarella and add hot peppers to taste.

My Favorite Arabic love song

 Bismillahi Rahmanu Rahim

I don't know with which one to begin because I have so many Arabic songs that I love so much and I love to listen over and over again!

Allah, soon ... so soon the time will come! I can hardly wait for the moment when a bound will be tight forever!

Every love song that I love is connected to a precious moment from our love story: Kadreyah and Karim :) AlhamdulilAllah!

The moment when I first saw my husband...

...the moment when he first saw me...

...I remember the moment when our eyes met each other first time...

Our story goes on with so precious moments... so special and indeed... so rare between couples... sometimes I was thinking that it is not fair and I was asking myself, I was asking my beloved husband that how come all those beautiful things? And if I really deserve all the goodness and all his precious love for me?... I was thinking to this because meanwhile I have these things in another corner of the world... someone is suffering... another one is hungry... many are crying... much more are hurt and destroyed... so how come that I was receiving so much grace from Allah?

Than my beloved one was all the time reminding me that for every good thing, for every good thought, for every good eyes look and for every simple kind fact, for every blessed word... for every moment when we stop a moment to see the others and for every second when we take for our "precious - busy" time to give a hand to a person in need... we receive back much more that could we think... and much more that could we imagine... even if it comes later, over the time... Allah never forgets and HE gives us every little thing in the right moment with a right way!

Also, in hard times Allah never gives us more than we could take or that we could stand...

I love you my beloved husband!

Our story continuous with a very beautiful part... the part when Allah send us on the same road life and put us in the road of engagement...

Marriage what is one of the most beautiful dreams we had from the moment we discovered that we are in love with each other! ALHAMDULILALLAH!

I know that I have reached home! You are my home, my beloved husband!

And now check out what is behind the story :)))))))))) the real one without nothing hidden :D...

Karkady - Hibiscus Tea

Karkady is one of the most popular and unusual drinks that you can find in Egypt. Made from the dried, dark red petals of the Hibiscus flower.  It is served in many of the popular cafe's throughout Egypt. The best Karkady comes from Upper Egypt. Be sure to bring home a bag of dried petals from Aswan or Luxor.

* 1 cup hibiscus petals

* 2 cups sugar

Pick over the dried petals, removing any stems or leaves.  Soak the hibiscus petals in cold water to cover for 1-2 hours. Transfer the petals and water to a pot and bring to a boil. Remove the pot immediately and strain the liquid through filter paper.  Return the petals to the pot, add fresh cold water to cover, and repeat as above.  Repeat the process until the karkady loses its reddish hue.  Then, discard the petals and sweeten the juice while it is still hot.  Serve cold, although it is a pleasant drink when served warm in the wintertime.

It is possible to purchase hibiscus tea bags from other lands as a substitute, but the intensity of flavor will not be the same. I have found hibiscus tea bags from Europe in the international food department of a very large supermarket.