Luxor4u

This is probably pushing my luck, but... Some of my favourite recipes, and some great new ones I have seen recently, all involve these ingredients, which I cannot use for my (Muslim) husband. Is there something else available in Luxor other non-Muslim cooks use?

There's no substitute! Nothing could be better than a bacon sandwich for breakfast - unless it is the full English!

However, you can get an almost acceptable substitute in Arkwright's - I've tried it - and their beef bacon is very good.

I'm wondering if you could substitute chicken for pork in your recipes.

For a full English breakfast I use the smoked chicken slices. Whilst it cooks it even smells like bacon! The smoked breast of turkey is good too. I also use the tinned luncheon meats in cooking, you can get the meat, chicken or turkey. Great for a quick shawarma, (not sure on the spelling!). There is a sausage made in Egypt, you sometimes see them for sale in Luxor or if you are adventurous I have a recipe that is very easy.

Mrs Z had some turkey slices left.
I gave them a go, dropped them in the frying pan and then into a couple of slices of Warburtons thick bread.

With a little imagination and some HP sauce, you know, it did almost taste like bacon.


The only bit of a pig you cant eat is the "oink"
I learned that off a 3 year old kid

You so right, Stan! Sigh Yes, some recipies you can substitiute chicken, but it's never as good.

Thanks K and Z, I will note your suggestions and give them a try. 3-y-o kids know everything!

LivinginLuxor wrote:Nothing could be better than a bacon sandwich for breakfast

You've got my mouth watering too soon! I'd trained myself to consign bacon sarnies to the far reaches of my mind until my next visit. But only two weeks to go, then down to Cafe Mimmo in Teddington (Jordanian owner who cooks delicious back bacon rashers even if he won't eat them himself!) to claim my (former) usual table.

Don't tell him just use the bacon, ham-hocks, ect in whatever, he'll just think that your cooking has improved, what you don't know won't hurt you, 'so they say. And one day you never know that knowledge might come in handy...you never know....
PS: how can one cook a Tagine without Obelisk ?

Are you referring to that quality wine DrWho?

Easy.. Don't add any

I might as well take the faith, if that's the case....
not the fiddler lot them others...

They serve 'Beef Bacon' for breakfast in the hotels.....Now there's a conflict in terms? Doesn't taste a but like bacon or beef come to that...thin dried leather perhaps

There is no substitute, and when we visit, one item that must go in the case is a couple of packs for a very good west bank friend.

Last year, before the swine flu hoax, you could get a respectable bacon & eggs or a bacon sandwich at Oasis restaurant. It was more like thinly sliced gammon. I think they got it from the pork butcher near the soukh, which is probably out of business now. With a high proportion of Christians living in and around Luxor, there really should be no problem in providing pork.

drwho wrote:I might as well take the faith, if that's the case....
not the fiddler lot them others...

Hop on board the wagon DrWho, Preserve a few brain cells...sah ??

I suddenly lost the ability to drink when I was about 30 years old.. I physically suffer now if I drink Alcohol..*******.. ..
Christ, if give up the fags, I'll be perfect

I use turkey bacon and turkey sausage when I need those things and they are delicious. I almost never buy bacon except I do buy bacon bits at times to put in omelets.

PRchick wrote:I use turkey bacon and turkey sausage when I need those things and they are delicious. I almost never buy bacon except I do buy bacon bits at times to put in omelets.

I totally forgot about those ! Doh !! :doh:

The Bernard Mathews ones tasted very nice... Problem solved on the sausage front..

Well not sure it would work for British Z as our bacon is very different from yours. Think yours is more like what we call Candaian bacon, which is close to ham. But Turkey sausage can hold its own. Yum.