Molokheyya + Ma7shy + Bamya + Keshk + etc.

Apart from missing your boyfriend, your sister, your family, your girlfriends and the closest of all: your cat, when you leave home for long, the thing you and your stomach miss the most is: FOOD. The above mentioned, dishes with weird-sounding-names are only few among a huge variety of Egyptian food that -yum yum- are so delicious and tasty. The problem is, they are so heavy, after you are done with eating lunch, you definitely have to sleep for 2 hours at least, or your friends are going to be extremely bored if they meet you right after lunch. The second problem is, if you want to cook these dishes and if you want them to taste good, you have to be a grandmother… or a mother… OK I admit it, some of my friends DO cook these complicated meals, BUT they have been doing so for ages, while I did not. I have been proud of being able to prepare eggs for the past 25 years. Nowadays I can add pasta, chicken and rice to the eggs-list.
(N.B. Rice: You buy UNCLE BEN’S, which has 4 or 8 plastic bags full of rice inside. You put the plastic bag in boiling water for 5 minutes, and that’s it: you have rice!!)