You're welcome Lorrie! Middle-Eastern food was my first love and lots of the food is adaptable to LC. Even baba ganouj is OK. You can replace half of the tahini with sour cream if you find the carbs in tahini too high.

Allspice is an individual spice, somewhat like cloves. The four spice mix sounds very good as a replacement.

Have you ever seen the spice mix called kibbeh spice? It has all kinds of stuff - cumin, allspice, oregano, rose petals and a bunch of other stuff. I's just great ground up and used as a marinade on lamb. Gotta get some the next time I'm in Ottawa. It's a bit harder to find these ingredients on the West Coast.

Karen