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[Dr Ray]

Welcome to Australia

 

[MS 9x56]

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Mistakes were made here.

 

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It"s just a flesh wound!

 

[sgt_zim]

I get it. I'm Lebanese and have been eating kibbeh nayeh my whole life. My grandmother would make it for Sunday dinner after church. This is how it would look when she brought it out, and there was rarely any left.
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You still Orthodox, then? I'm a catechumen at an Antiochian Orthodox.

 

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[Vashper]

You still Orthodox, then? I'm a catechumen at an Antiochian Orthodox.

As far as I have heard, the Orthodox Church is limited to following only the rules bequeathed by the Apostles and the Ecumenical Councils. Otherwise, local churches are free, both in terms of household rules and liturgy. We do not use raw meat in any form, perhaps because pork is widely used in cooking, and it cannot be consumed without heat treatment. On the hunt, of course, raw fillet of roe deer and moose goes very well, despite the religious fast (it is until January 6 inclusive), under the foreign name "carpaccio". And from January 7th, baked goose, roast pig, etc.

 

[BeeMaa]

You still Orthodox, then? I'm a catechumen at an Antiochian Orthodox.

The Greek and Lebanese foods are very close, but I was raised born-again Christian in an overwhelmingly Catholic region of Upstate NY. This is why my grandmother would press a cross into the kibbeh for Sunday dinner. The love of the food (both Greek and Lebanese) still remains, but not so much the for religion.

All the best with your upcoming baptism.