Comments on: Chicken with Apricots and Prunes, A Sultan’s Feast http://www.sarahmelamed.com/2010/02/chicken-with-apricots-and-prunes-a-sultans-feast/ Bridging cultures through food Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:31:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cookingrookie http://www.sarahmelamed.com/2010/02/chicken-with-apricots-and-prunes-a-sultans-feast/comment-page-1/#comment-5290 cookingrookie Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:49:39 +0000 http://www.sarahmelamed.com/?p=1237#comment-5290 I got to your site through Shulie's Food Wonderings. Love your blog! And I love this recipe! It's absolutely perfect for me because I have some leftover dried apricots that I should use up, and your recipe looks ideal for that. I just made carrot muffins with dried apricots, and now I also have a main course :-) Thanks for sharing, and I am subscribing to follow you! I got to your site through Shulie’s Food Wonderings. Love your blog!
And I love this recipe! It’s absolutely perfect for me because I have some leftover dried apricots that I should use up, and your recipe looks ideal for that.
I just made carrot muffins with dried apricots, and now I also have a main course :-)
Thanks for sharing, and I am subscribing to follow you!

]]> By: Sarah http://www.sarahmelamed.com/2010/02/chicken-with-apricots-and-prunes-a-sultans-feast/comment-page-1/#comment-4342 Sarah Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:13:43 +0000 http://www.sarahmelamed.com/?p=1237#comment-4342 I will look in my cookbooks to see if there are any recipes that you discribe. I will look in my cookbooks to see if there are any recipes that you discribe.

]]> By: Larry http://www.sarahmelamed.com/2010/02/chicken-with-apricots-and-prunes-a-sultans-feast/comment-page-1/#comment-4336 Larry Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:33:07 +0000 http://www.sarahmelamed.com/?p=1237#comment-4336 Greetings: I remember my mother's delightful culinary treats, although from Northern Lebanon many of her dishes had the flair of Homs and Halib in Syria. Looking for a dish or treat that she fested us with. It was chunks of white meat chicken, prunces, appricots in a light aromatic sauce over rice. It was to die for. Any ideas I am going to try to come close to it but any help will be appreciated. Thank you! Greetings:
I remember my mother’s delightful culinary treats, although from Northern Lebanon many of her dishes had the flair of Homs and Halib in Syria. Looking for a dish or treat that she fested us with. It was chunks of white meat chicken, prunces, appricots in a light aromatic sauce over rice. It was to die for. Any ideas I am going to try to come close to it but any help will be appreciated.
Thank you!

]]> By: Nawal Nasrallah http://www.sarahmelamed.com/2010/02/chicken-with-apricots-and-prunes-a-sultans-feast/comment-page-1/#comment-1092 Nawal Nasrallah Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:34:00 +0000 http://www.sarahmelamed.com/?p=1237#comment-1092 It seems to me now that both nabq and jujube belong to the same family, albeit of different varieties. I read that jujube ('unnab in Arabic) is Ziziphus zizyphus. Could nabq/sidir be Ziziphus lotus (from Mediterranean) and Ziziphus spina christi (from south eastern Asia)? I also withdraw my identification of nabq as medlar. It turns out Naples medlar is the name of what is called in Arabic za'rour, which is a red or yellow small fruit similar to nabq but has three conjoined pits. do any of your relatives recognize this fruit? its English name is azarole. It seems to me now that both nabq and jujube belong to the same family, albeit of different varieties. I read that jujube (‘unnab in Arabic) is Ziziphus zizyphus. Could nabq/sidir be Ziziphus lotus (from Mediterranean) and Ziziphus spina christi (from south eastern Asia)?

I also withdraw my identification of nabq as medlar. It turns out Naples medlar is the name of what is called in Arabic za’rour, which is a red or yellow small fruit similar to nabq but has three conjoined pits. do any of your relatives recognize this fruit? its English name is azarole.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.sarahmelamed.com/2010/02/chicken-with-apricots-and-prunes-a-sultans-feast/comment-page-1/#comment-1072 Sarah Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:30:52 +0000 http://www.sarahmelamed.com/?p=1237#comment-1072 There are three species of jujube growing wild in Israel (in Hebrew: shezaf) from the Rhamnaceae family Zisiphus nummularia (rare, grows in the south) Z.lotus Z.spina-christi the fruits are not as elongated as I see in pictures on the web but like the picture I have here, with small round fruit my relatives also call the tree above Nabq, like you mentioned, and when the fruits are in season they used to eat it right off the tree. I am pretty sure it is the same tree but perhaps a different species (also called dom, sider) There are three species of jujube growing wild in Israel (in Hebrew: shezaf) from the Rhamnaceae family
Zisiphus nummularia (rare, grows in the south)
Z.lotus
Z.spina-christi
the fruits are not as elongated as I see in pictures on the web but like the picture I have here, with small round fruit
my relatives also call the tree above Nabq, like you mentioned, and when the fruits are in season they used to eat it right off the tree. I am pretty sure it is the same tree but perhaps a different species (also called dom, sider)

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