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Food on Fridays with Ann
Friends from church invited us over for coffee and dessert. Our hostess kindly asked about my food restrictions.
“Oh, don’t worry about me!”
“Please tell me,” she insisted. “I would like to know.”
After I assured her that I would be perfectly satisfied with a piece of fruit, she practically begged me to tell her. Rather than go through the whole long list, I said that I couldn’t have gluten or dairy.
“But rice? Rice or rice flour would be okay?”
“Yes, rice is absolutely fine. But please don’t trouble yourself.”
Well, the minute she knew I could have rice, she planned to make a Lebanese dessert called Meghli, served both at Christmas and to celebrate the birth of a male.
Meghli is a type of rice pudding that uses ground rice, or rice flour, with a blend of spices, cinnamon being the most prominent. As you can see, the pudding is topped with nuts (and sometimes coconut). My friend added raisins.
Light and yet satisfying, I was delighted and impressed.
What a privilege to enjoy this special treat!
I will have to ask my friend for her recipe, but for now, I found one that looks exactly the same at a website called Poetry of Food.
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That was so special of your friend to prepare a treat that you could enjoy. Going to the Poetry of Food site, the dish looks very similar, just the choice of nuts. I like the idea of added raisens too. A celebration treat served at Christmas and for the birth of a male – – Jesus in this case. 🙂
Hazel, she is so sweet and thoughtful. I was blessed.
And I was moved by that description at Poetry of Food about serving that same dish at Christmas to celebrate the birth of the most important male child to Christians!