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Mum bought this "morokheeya" for the first time and could be the last time. "Morokheeya" is an arabic name of a dish that used these leaves to boil with meat as soup.

Mum actually tried few times of this soup from her friends and love it so she wanted to try to cook by herself. But she never saw the fresh "morokheeya" before but saw the shop selling the dried one in packs.

However her friend told her that fresh one is way much better and it is the season now to get fresh one. So she decided to go down to an arabic grocery shop to buy them. She walked into the shop with dad and asked for it. The owner told them to walk to the backroom and will definately see them there.

When they walked in and saw all these like like plants or trees. Mum was shocked and dad laughed because it will not an easy job to cook this dish. The shop is selling in bunches...A bunch would be a huge bunch and there are taller than Adam.

Dad and mum stood there and gave a moment to think should buy them or not. Mum was really hesitated because she did not want the hassels of picking the leaves and wash them. Eventually she bought them still. Dad was laughing all the way home.

Mum waited till late night only started to "act" on those leaves as she was so busy during the day. And she got me to help her as she thought I would really love to help to pick the leaves. We took awhile to get them done. Mum was relieaved!

Mum cooked it after two days. she fried some beef meat with lots of garlic gloves and corianders and abit of soya sauce. Then add water to let the meat boil for an hour. After that she added the leaves and boil another hanf an hour. It smells so great even our neighbour could smell what she was cooking coz they are arabics - so familiar with the smell !

I loved it and my mum was happy with the outcome. I already had it for yesterday dinner and today's dinner.

Sometimes mum cook the similar soup also. Instead of using these leaves she used english spinach with exactly the same way of cooking. It is full of iron and I will be like the popeye the sailor man ..doo doo !!