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Ingredients:

1 kg potatoes
1 kg chicken or just chicken pieces
5 large tomatoes
4 large onions, sliced ​​half-rings
4 cloves garlic
1 cup broth or water, or may take longer, depending on the size of the baking dish
1 / 2 chili pepper (to taste)
2 tablespoons tomato paste

Spices: 2 teaspoons salt or to taste
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 tablespoons margarine / butter / ghee.

Preparation:

Peel potatoes and cut into thick slices and wash well.

Wash, clean onion and cut into half rings.

Wash the tomatoes and peppers and cut into slices.

In the shape of the baking sections of lay-potatoes, onions, tomatoes, chili peppers, chicken ( salt each layer)

Broth or water to mix with tomato paste, garlic and other spices.

Pour the tomato sauce and potato slices on top of butter.

Place in oven preheated to 180 degrees. Cook about 50-60 minutes.

It is important that everything was covered with sauce. It is better to make the sauce a little more. (Depending on the size of the form in which you cook)

Serve with rice, bread and fresh vegetables.

Bon Appetit!

Alexandrian Kings (Konstantinos Kavafis)

The Alexandrians turned out in force
to see Cleopatra’s children,
Kaisarion and his little brothers,
Alexander and Ptolemy, who for the first time
had been taken out to the Gymnasium,
to be proclaimed kings there
before a brilliant array of soldiers.

Alexander: they declared him
king of Armenia, Media, and the Parthians.
Ptolemy: they declared him
king of Cilicia, Syria, and Phoenicia.
Kaisarion was standing in front of the others,
dressed in pink silk,
on his chest a bunch of hyacinths,
his belt a double row of amethysts and sapphires,
his shoes tied with white ribbons
prinked with rose-colored pearls.
They declared him greater than his little brothers,
they declared him King of Kings.

The Alexandrians knew of course
that this was all mere words, all theatre.

But the day was warm and poetic,
the sky a pale blue,
the Alexandrian Gymnasium
a complete artistic triumph,
the courtiers wonderfully sumptuous,
Kaisarion all grace and beauty
(Cleopatra’s son, blood of the Lagids);
and the Alexandrians thronged to the festival
full of enthusiasm, and shouted acclamations
in Greek, and Egyptian, and some in Hebrew,
charmed by the lovely spectacle—
though they knew of course what all this was worth,
what empty words they really were, these kingships.

Marilyn Moore Harris “Waterfront in Old Town Alexandria”, May 2001

A charcoal drawing by Sydney Arrobus, “Market scene in Alexandria”, 1941

Малярчук Станислав. Дипломатический пляж Александрия Египет

Early aquatint engraving of ‘The Pharos of Alexandria’ in Egypt. Engraved by J C Stadler from an original drawing by Cooper Willyams and published in Fleet Street London in 1801.