Hisham Assaad
Cookin5m2 is the cooking blog and food photography business of Hisham Assaad, the author of Bayrut The Cookbook
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7+ Apple Recipes That Prove One Fruit Can Do Everything (opens the original)
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The apple does everything. We eat it raw, bake it into pies, and rarely think much further. But spend enough time cooking with apples and you start to see how far this one fruit can stretch. Sweet, savoury, spiced, fermented, or put into a bag and gifted straight from the tree.Over the years on this blog, the apple has quietly appeared in more recipes than I realised. Sometimes they are sharing the spotlight, but they’re always there front and center; a crumble made from freshly picked mountain
ARCHIVE POST: The Spill: Food is Political (opens the original)
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This is a post published on my website cookin5m2.com on 21 July 2020. It was a time where the country was finding its footing after banks denied citizens, or at least small depositors, access to their savings and retirements because some big depositors transferred their (OUR) money abroad and banks had no liquidity anymore. This was probably planned for since mid 2019 when banks started rationing out withdraws. This scarcity in foreign currency affected the local currency which was pegged to the
Two Seconds to Breathe (opens the original)
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