Sarina describes grains

A well stocked Middle East kitchen or a kitchen in which your going to cook Sephardic foods or middle eastern foods would be stocked with at least three items. One is Semolina. You'll find Semolina is used often in Italian foods because pasta is made with Semolina. Greek foods are made with Semolina. But also Syrian foods, Turkish foods, Semolina is used usually in a dough. It's used in a dough that for example for Sambusak or for various pastries that you would make In Middle East cooking. The second thing that you'll find often is Bulghur. Bulghur is a wheat Bulghur wheat comes in three different grains of grinding, of fineness. This is a fine ground Bulghur wheat, but there is also medium ground and there's rough ground and depending on the recipe. The recipe will tell you how well ground the Bulghur should be and you should buy the Bulghur accordingly. I generally have fine ground in my house just about all the time. And finally sesame seeds. Sesame seeds provide flavor in so many different ways they are a decorative feature on Hor d'euvres like if you're making uh... muirrat which is filo stuffed with cheese but it's also sesame seeds can also be used when you are coating chicken if you're going to cook chicken with any kind of a bread coating or with any kind of topping you can mix the sesame seeds in with the topping and it will add a very very interesting flavor to it, a flavor that you don't want to miss.