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Feb 16Liked by Sohla El-Waylly

Uh this looks delicious and the people who say it looks bad don’t deserve to eat it. Most of the coziest, filling, most delicious food doesn’t look “IG perfect” and most folks are okay with that! They can go eat nonsense if they want😂

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Feb 17Liked by Sohla El-Waylly

A lot of my favorite foods look completely like bowls of mush because I love Nutritious Pastes, that are usually a bowl of grain and legume and probably cabbage. I know they are amazing and that’s what matters

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✨ Team Ugly Ass Food ✨

I have a serious love affair with all things fesenjān & sweet potato, so happily adding this to my sweet & sour clutch of favorites (fesenjān with: eggplant, butternut squash, lamb meatballs, chicken thighs, or pork carnitas are the happy cross overs I enjoy). Can hardly wait to dig in (had to censor Go to Brown Town there, but I think Y'all get it 😂)

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Feb 17Liked by Sohla El-Waylly

I bet commenters were responding to the meatball-making process more that anything, he he. Hey guys, that's what meatballs look like when you're making them! Worth it. Thank you for your bravery Sohla!

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Oh yeah, that’s probably it!

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Feb 16Liked by Sohla El-Waylly

Bonkers responses, Tik Tok scares me 😵‍💫 I somehow missed the sofrito soup so this was a good prompt to go back and bookmark it! I hate to admit it... but I don't really like sweet potatoes either... so I'm very interested to try this recipe and see if I'm converted like Ham!

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I recommend giving the sweet p’s a chance! But also think this would work well with a small cabbage cut into quarters

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Mar 2Liked by Sohla El-Waylly

Holy moly, surprising no one, these were AMAZING! The syrup and walnut topping was truly elevating. Absolutely sold.

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Woohoo!!!!

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Mar 26Liked by Sohla El-Waylly

I tried this and turned out amazing. However, I’m having issues downloading the pdf version of the recipe. Is anyone else encountering the same?

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Sorry, and thanks for letting me know. I will look into it!

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Mar 1Liked by Sohla El-Waylly

This ugly food finally pushed me over the paywall and it was totally worth it!

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Ugly food ftw!

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Feb 26Liked by Sohla El-Waylly

Sorry can’t move on from this…Ham hates SOUP!?!?!

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Yup!

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Feb 26Liked by Sohla El-Waylly

That’s almost as insane as my partner who hates bread🤨

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If that’s the only red flag I’d take it!

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Such a good point💖

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Feb 17Liked by Sohla El-Waylly

SAY IT !!!!!

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Swapped in veggie stock and fig balsamic (for pomegranate molasses) otherwise I made it as written and this was SO GOOD. Clean plate club. Keeping this recipe on hand forever

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Sohla, recipe PDF goes to a broken link! Want to download and print because I'm old :)

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