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A product review

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The latest DK Market find!  I like falafel. When it's crunchy on the outside, but soft and savory inside, with a good tahini sauce, veggies, on a good pita, it's one of the great things out there. So delicious! The problem is..it's time consuming to make good ones. Yeah, you can use canned chickpeas, or use a falafel mix, or use chickpea flour, and it'll get done quickly,  but it's just not going to be a great product. Either too grainy or too bitter. You have to cook the chickpeas , and it's best to soak them first. So it's a meal you have to plan for, not spontaneously decide to make.  And then, wandering the aisles of the DK Market in Renton , which is always such a treat to shop in,  I saw frozen, precooked falafel balls imported from Detroit, made by Barakah Kebab. A dozen falafel balls per package.  I had to buy them, of course, in the name of research. I reheated them by quickly pan frying them in hot oil for a couple of minutes. Schmeared som