a taste of Mid-East sweets
By Grace on Feb 19, 2008 in food
I have a new addiction besides the internet. Goodness, I don’t even know what they’re called. All I know is that they have lots of pistachio nuts in it and they come from somewhere in the Middle East. Iran? Syria? Lebanon? Turkey? I don’t know, any idea? I should go back again and ask, never mind that the store keeper speaks another language, definitely not English!
Green in food is not usually fancy to look at but it’s better to save comments until you tried it. It’s delicious and highly addicting.
That looks good to me. I like pistachios.
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thebluestbutterfly | Feb 19, 2008 | Reply
looks like slices of eggplant and ampalaya.
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rose | Feb 19, 2008 | Reply
I LOVE those candies. LOVE them!! I am wondering if they might be a variety of Turkish delight…. Which I also love…. I just found out that there’s milk chocolate covered turkish delight… yum… I have no idea where I’ve had them before, I only know that I can eat about 1 million of them. You have great taste Grace!
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looks a bit like nougat with pistachio, dont you think? But i guess it must be some kind of turkish delights if its from middle east, yea?
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allthingspurple | Feb 19, 2008 | Reply
that looks delicious!
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shiera | Feb 19, 2008 | Reply
The Indians have a sweet that looks kind of like that - I’m pretty sure it has pistachios, but I don’t know what it’s called.
Yep, I’m pretty much no help at all. Sorry Grace!
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nicki | Feb 19, 2008 | Reply
If it’s got pistachios it can’t be bad–love those guys! I was always disappointed with Turkish Delight, to me it wasn’t delightful at all but just sweet and sticky–that stuff actually looks tasty!
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Michelle at Scribbit | Feb 19, 2008 | Reply
That looks like something my mom used to get us way back called Halva (or some variation thereof). Check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halva
I want to guess we used to get the Sesame variety. Very very sweet, very tasty.
rmora | Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
Those do look yummy.
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Donetta | Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
My sister brought a box of those pistachios sweets home from a business trip to Syria last year. There was huge variety of them, the best was the Damascus equivalent of the Greek Baklava with the pistachios in the middle!!
Yum!
Dani | Feb 27, 2008 | Reply