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I thought I would pull out\u00a0another family recipe<\/a>: this walnut-pistachio baklava. My mom has made it for my whole life (and most of her life!), and it’s one of a handful of culinary heirlooms that has been written down and passed on to me. My mother\u2019s father\u2019s family is from Lebanon, where baklava (or baklawa) is a traditional pastry made of paper thin sheets of phyllo layered with sugary, spiced nuts and absolutely drowned in syrup or honey.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It might not be the first time you\u2019ve seen it, since we made it on my episode of\u00a0The Secret Sauce with Dan Pelosi<\/a>. I wanted to make it easier for you to get the recipe somewhere that wasn\u2019t just the caption of the Youtube video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When she was a teen, she wanted to surprise them with a homemade batch, so she tracked down a recipe and baked it \u2014 to raves! Her father received one every year on his birthday, as well as her aunt every Christmas. Nearly 50 years since she found the original in a magazine, this recipe has been changed, embellished, and rarely written down. And I almost feel guilty to say even I have made some minor tweaks \u2014 but isn\u2019t that how all family recipes work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s made all over that part of the world, and every culture and even family does it a little different, so don\u2019t take this as a declarative, final baklava recipe to end all other recipes. If you do it differently, I would love to know! \u2014 but please don\u2019t yell at me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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