Christmas Eve 2009 (Part 2; Fuheis)

Fuheis is known as the "Christmas Capitol of the Middle East". It's a tiny village just a short drive north of Amman. We drove up after eating our mansaf supper and enjoyed the festivities and the tallest tree in Jordan. We were also able to buy a bottle of the locally produced wine that reminded me of my Mamaw's home made wine. For the record, and against her orders, I'm NOT taking it only for medical purposes...

Christmas Eve 2009 (Part 1; Mansaf)

Rice being added to the Arabian bread and Jameed

Still more rice cooking

Osama 2 assembling the Mansaf dish

Jameed poured on Arabian bread

Chefs du jour

abo Zaky and Osama 2

Adding the lamb to the rice

Sprinkle generously with chopped parsley...

...and fried almonds

and voila! My favorite Arabian dish - Mansaf!!!

(l to r) Osama 1, Ibrahim, abo Zaky, Osama 2 preparing to serve mansaf

Dig in boys!!!

It got really quiet around the table for awhile...

(l to r) Ayoub, Osama 2, Mohammed, Ibrahim, Osama 1, Jim

ready to eat!

Add just a bit more jameed

Saha!!!

How do the skinniest boys eat the most???

Ibrahim eating in the traditional Bedouin style

The "disafter"

Christmas Eve 2009