International food nights go to Egypt

On the 31^st Mr. Pickles and I had my parents over for our international food night’s dinner party. We had picked E awhile back and decided to do EGYPT!!

It was a little hard to decorate the house since all of my Christmas decorations are still up. My father is Ukrainian so we also celebrate Christmas on the 6^th/7^th of January following the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. So it was Christmas in Egypt.

Many years ago my parents and I were fortunate enough to actually visit Egypt so was able to put a few souvenirs we had bought on the table. The only other decoration I could think of was to fill the kitchen with books I have about ancient Egypt...but that wasn’t very exciting...lol

Okay onto our Menu

Appetizers

Hummus

Baba Ganoush

Tabouli

Homemade Pita

I was also suppose to make zucchini cakes, but I forgot about them until we sat down to eat...oops

Main Course

Ful Midomes (Fava beans in lemon and garlic....I think this might be a breakfast dish but I liked it so I made it for supper)

Koushari (lentils, macaroni, rice, chickpea with a tomato sauce

Chicken Corniche (basically a chicken stew with tomatoes, cloves and cinnamon)

This a sampler plate my Dad put together after the meal Homemade pita, Chicken Corniche, Koushari, Ful Midomes

Dessert

Basbousa sweet cake using semolina flour)

All in all it was a wonderful meal!

My parents picked a S out of the bag....but we will have to wait till March to see what county they choose!