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Originally posted by With a name like Smuckers:
I've never found cottage cheese here either.

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Smuckers,

Egypt has both ricotta and cottage cheese. The Ricotta cheese is primarily sold in larger supermarkets and it is labeled as ‘goat cheese’. Cottage cheese(Qur'aysh) is all-over and it comes in a 400 gram yellow and white container with a little red. The packaging has “healthy living” in English on it.

Yesterday we went to gourmet supermarket and found Ricotta cheese but the price was $5 for 227 grams. A total rip-off and such a price would have meant $20 for a kilogram or 2 pounds. So my wife went to the dairy and cold-cut section and asked them if they had local Ricotta cheese and they said no but they recommended a cheese called “Karsee’eh” which they said is exactly like Ricotta. It was a fraction of the price of imported Ricotta cheese and OMG it tasted great. It has a very similar texture to Ricotta cheese although you won’t know it by simply looking at it.

Karsee’eh is the way to go I get so thrilled when I find better and cheaper alternatives that taste even better.

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Originally posted by mok-mok:
i make everything from scratch too. i have too i am an excutive chef. i love to create things and i even did an egyptian nite dinner for my customers. it was a great hit

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i envy you being an executive chef must be a great feeling

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Originally posted by With a name like Smuckers:
This is what I'm cooking so I thought to post it here to share:



GYROS
1/2 lb ground lamb
1/2 lb ground beef
2 slices bread, day old and partially dried
2 garlic cloves, chopped fine
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground fenugreek
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1 egg, beaten

TZATZIKI SAUCE
2 small cucumbers, peeled & seeded & diced
1 1/4 cups yogurt
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 lemon, juice of
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon fresh dill, chopped
white pepper
salt

-----------TZATZIKI SAUCE-------------.
Combine yogurt, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and pepper in a bowl.
Cover and refrigerate for one hour.
Blend yogurt mixture with a whip until smooth.
Dry cucumbers by patting with paper towels.
Add Cucumbers and dill to yogurt mixture.
Salt and pepper to taste.
----------GYROS------------.
Mix lamb and beef in a glass bowl.
Crumb bread into meat mixture.
Add Spices and mix well.
Stir egg into meat mixture Form mixture into 2 large patties and place on a medium hot grill for 5 minutes per side or until the Gyros is cooked through.
Serve sliced gyros on warm pita bread with fresh sliced tomatoes, onions and Tzatziki sauce.

I usually serve with fried potatoes and a great side salad with lots of cilantro. ENJOY!

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Originally posted by Gail:
my one-person household

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You need to change that!

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Originally posted by Sobriquet:
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The Qur'aash might not really be cottage cheese
but it's diet cheese

I am 100% certain though that Egypt has Ricotta cheese ... the packaging has a picture of a goat with horns on it (seriously)

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Is there a particular way to say this cheese in Arabic? That might help to find it where I am, this small town often carries *some* things but I miss them from not knowing what they're called in Arabic.

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Originally posted by jean_bean:
Ricotta cheese?
where can I find some ricotta cheese here in Egypt? and what is it called in arabic.
have been thinking about making lasagna, and of course its best with a good ricotta, but been unable to locate some.
any ideas?

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istamboli is the nearest to ricotta and much cheaper too

fenugreek is used in hindi cooking
it is a little mustard coloured seed the size of a grain of rice and you crush it or it comes pwdered
gives a hindi flavour to cooking

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Originally posted by mok-mok:
i just made the ingredents. i cant wait to have them tonight. let ya know the sauce is banging

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Banging? Has anybody ever known Mok-Mok to use this slang word?

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