When I was a senior in college, I spent an Urban Semester in Philadelphia. We had to find our own living arrangement, and I ended up in a communal household in West Philadelphia with a couple, their toddler, a single mom and her nine year old, and a single middle aged man. We traded off cooking and my first meal for my "family" was Lamb and Apricot Polo, based loosely on Claudia Roden's recipe from the classic Middle Eastern Food (how I love that book). When it was served up, I guess it looked a little underwhelming but then Molly, the single mother, dived in and said: 'Meg, this has fruit! It's delicious!" And it is.

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