Middle Eastern cuisine fava are cooked like other green beans, boiled and dressed in oil, or stewed with meat. The haricot beans and black-eyed beans are also common. Lentils, split peas, and chickpeas are widely used in soups, with rice, in salads, or with meat. Hummus, made from chickpeas and sesame paste, originated in Syria and Lebanon. Stuffed vegetables are a dish most associated with the Middle East in the popular mind. They are commonly called dolma, the Turkish word meaning "stuffed," but also the Arabic mahshi. Grape leaves, chard, and cabbage are stuffed with rice, ground meat, pine nuts, and spices, and
Stuffed chine when it presents attractively contrasting stripes of pink and green. Food writer Jane Grigson gave a recipe in "The Observer" in March 1984. The poet Paul Verlaine, who in the mid-1870s spent a year as a schoolmaster just north of Boston, liked stuffed chine so much that he tried unsuccessfully to find it elsewhere in England. In 1936 the "Sunderland Daily Echo" reported that chine was a traditional dish served on Trinity Sunday in Old Clee, north-east Lincolnshire. Stuffed chine Stuffed chine is a traditional dish of salt pork filled with herbs, typically parsley, associated with the English county of