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Here is the Taboulé recipe such as Pete and I made it for Ellen and John last week :

Ingredients :
- 2 cups of Couscous grain
- 5 tomatoes
- 2 cucumber (US cucumber are shorter than French ones; at home I use only 1)
- 1 red pepper
- 1/4 red onion, minced
- fresh mint, minced
- 1/2 cup raisins
- the juice of 3 lemons
- 9 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt

Place the couscous grain in a big boal. Mix the lemon juice, the olive oil and the salt, and pour it on the grain. Stir to make the mix homogeneous.

Cut the tomatoes, cucumbers and the red pepper into small cubes. Add this plus the minced onion to the couscous grain mix. Stir everything. Let it sit for at least 1h in the fridge (it was good after 1h, but much better the day after). Just before serving, add the mint and the raisins. Enjoy!

On Saturday 12th of July, Pete’s younger brother’s married his charming fiancee Kelly in Medford, Oregon. Now I have a new step-sister, and the best of it, is that she is a strong environmentalist, preparing a PhD in Environmental Sociology!

Ellen has uploaded great pictures of the wedding on her Picasa galery. You can check them online at picasaweb.google.fr/ellen.john.or.

You can check the first photos from this year’s trip to Oregon on my Picasa galery. Here below is the slideshow of yesterday’s evening at Brian and Rhiana’s in Corvallis :