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eG Foodblog: Lior - Spend a week in sunny Ashkelon.


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Now back to the supermarket. Olives like their oil, are very popular here! You are allowed to pick one to taste- I know this sounds awful- butwe are in the mideast!!

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At the dairy deli:

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Goat and sheep cheeses:

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Halvahs:

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Haman's ears for Purim holiday:

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Gluten free pita

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Typical salads:

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dried fruits

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Spreads such as organic almond butter,date spread or syrup, fig spread etrog spread (citron?)..

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Next we will visit the bakery!! Not a fancy cake one, just the popular one that carries rolls, burekas, croissants, rogelach etc. They were all excited and took the url to check out their bakery. They couldn't understand why they deseerved to be on the internet. And on Friday morning we will visit a Yemenite shop to buy yemenite breads for the Shabbat meal. You are all invited to share shabbat. Typically on Friday morning the university kids come home, sometimes the soldiers, and they are all excited to see each other, eat good food - whether religious or not.

Here is a picture from last shabbat- we were a small group :sad:

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This friday we are at my in laws.

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Oh, what glorious-looking food! And your daughter is a real cutie!

How warm is it there now? Go ahead, make us envious. :raz:

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Oh, thank you for the generous welcome, but I think you're welcoming Rebecca263's daughter, known as Kiddle. She's a sweetheart, just like her Mom, and GORGEOUS.

And you'd be an honored guest around the percolator---it's doing its little song every morning between seven/eight and ten or so.

I love the idea of a Garden of Eden plant---pictures?

PS Do those dining chairs roll?---we have a set just like them.

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wine glasses made similar to glass from ancient Roman Caesaria :

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Gorgeous. What fun to drink from!

Thanks for blogging, this is very interesting!

Will you have time to show us your chocolates making setup?

"You dont know everything in the world! You just know how to read!" -an ah-hah! moment for 6-yr old Miss O.

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Thanks! Here are some chocolate pics. The ones of my basement chocoalte kitchen are from a few months ago. It is now messy and cluttered!! I gotta organize!!: Going down to the lab:

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me holding a shelf

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please don't notice all the imperfections!!

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my light!

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Those are palet d'or 70% guanaja from Valrhona. They tasted better than they looked...

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The only imperfections in those chocolates is their lack of proximity to my house!

edited to add: Elisheva says that you can expect to hear from her next year, and can she be seated next to "that cute boy"?

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and a rather big treat-with TV!! Bad mom!! And I even allowed Nutella first!! Instead of cottage!! Usually cottage is first!

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No, no, no! Not "bad mom" at all. When she is all grown up, she will remember that once in awhile, her mother let her eat nutella first . . . and she will remember it fondly, and she will let her own daughter eat nutella first someday! :wub:

I am enjoying your blog so much. Your markets seem to have a much healthier selection of food than a "typical" supermarket here in the US, and a much better selection of cheeses, herbs and spices. You would be very disappointed if you had to shop at my local supermarkets, but then again, so am I. :sad:

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Israel is on my list of countries to visit, but I want to go back to Yemen first, so Israel will probably have to wait until my passport is about to expire (can I go to Israel with a Yemeni visa in my passport?)!

Does your m-i-l ever miss Yemen?

I hope you'll visit some street food stalls for us. My friend's sister lived in Israel for a few years, and she and her ex set up a takoyaki stall (without the tako, of course). She said it was a lot of fun thinking of other things to use, instead! (In case you don't spend much time in the Japan forum, takoyaki are little balls of batter filled with octopus, and cooked on a special grill).

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You should see the poor selection of kosher cheeses we have in New Jersey, even in the best kosher markets! It was the same story in Miami Beach, Florida, but a bit less expensive, I will admit.

The cost of cheese here... it's crazy!

The least expensive kosher cheese that you can buy is Muenster, and it's never less than US$9 a pound. THAT price is with a big sale on, too!

Well, you can buy processed "American" cheese for US$7 a pound, but I'd rather do without than eat it, as a rule.

My Kiddle adores grating cheeses and they usually cost US$24 a pound and UP!

I'm Syrian, and there is a Syrian style cheese that is a semisoft round, we just call it cheese- it's a bit salty, but not as a feta, and not crumbly at all, well, it's usually $US15 a pound, and it's just a humble table cheese.

Cheese, I love it so, I do admit, if I was in Israel that would be my big food expenditure.

So let me ask you now, how are prices in Ashkelon? For instance, lamb? I'm wondering if it is cheaper to get decent kosher meat in a country where many people keep kosher?

We just got turkey legs for Shabbat dinner this week, and I paid only US$1.29 a pound for them!

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Lior - have been lurking for awhile and I must have to say ...

please send ALL imperfect chocolates my way. Your chocolates are awesome! I could just imagine popping one in my mouth and letting it melt slowly on my tongue. MMmmMMmm

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These HAVE to be persimmons, not tomatoes. My love affair with just the LOOK of the fruit cannot have dwindled so far as to cloud my recognition this much.

But the shine---I'm so accustomed to the velvety haze that clouds each one on the tree, and I would have thought this market to be closer to open-air market than one of the SUPERmarket kind which washes and polishes the life and taste out of things. Even if you do not eat them, please buy just one, and set it into a pretty bowl in the sunlight. That brightens a table better than a Waterford chandelier.

Now to go back and catch up on all this wonderful journey.

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Those are Persimmons. What a lovely idea to put a tomato in a bowl, one, for beauty! You guys have such amazing ideas and ways of expression! And thanks to everyone for the blog and chocolate compliments- I always feel, hmmmm, should I expose this or that? And then I get all these kind words. What a group!!

tomatoes:

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Shawarma stand:

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I eat the pitas all the time. Ikeep them frozen and zap when I need one. They are muchbetter when eaten right away. I will go down to llok at the ingreds. Next to it is a gluten free bagella.

kbjesq- thanks for supporting my mom qualities! How true and kind!!! I recall the supers there being huge and with an amazing variety of products!! And Rebeccal263, your gorgeous-so I heard- daughter is welcome. My son may be in the states in Aug to travel before going to univ!! As most post military kids do here! They start univ so late here- the usual is 22-23, some even later. I will go check prices now and ingreds!!

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So the gluten free pita has corn starch, potato starch, rice flour, gluten free stabilizer, salt, sugar and yeast. A basic yellow cheese here costs appr. 10$ for a kilo (2.2pounds) A fancier one is 14$ a kilo. I just bought 10 thighs and legs of chicken (the leg with the triangle part) for about 20$. Is this expensive or not?

up close paving pictures:

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Ilana - it is 2am here. I have to be at work at 7:30am. I am giving a dinner party Friday night and haven't done anything tonight that I needed to do. I have no business sitting here on the internet. And yet I am sitting here! I am simply swamped by the beauty of your country, your food, your voice! Every single blogger gives us a gift of some kind. Your gift seems to be the ability to make me feel really present in your life! Thank you so much for blogging this week. I am just loving it so much. But my boss is going to want to have words with you :raz: ! And your kitties make me want to carry them to the nearest sunny spot for a cat draped nap!

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Hi! Home from the madness of the shuk or market!! We call this mess a

ballagan"!! I began with the view I see when walking towards the market. It is a lovely sunny day today-perfect for taking you to the market.

There are lots of people out to buy produce before cooking for the shabbat (sabbath) and everyone wants the best price, the most beautiful tomato, the perfect cucumber. There is a lot of bustle, sellers yelling out their prices and proclaiming to have the best produce. They yell at each other also - with real insult - How dare you think your produce better than mine!! Hey Mrs.!! What do you think?Whose looks best?? And when I ask to take their picture, they yell out:'Take him! Not me!" Then they both laugh and tell me to buy some from each!!

Lots of the people, especiall older women and men, bring abasket on wheels to cart their goods around in. They are very useful, actually.

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Best prices from me!! Hey don't touch that cardboard!" Best prices!!!

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Croissants etc: "Fresh from the morning!!"

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best boxers right here!!

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Market kids- I asked him why he is not in school and this was his reponse!

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curtains, rugs, pillowcases

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Sitting up high

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Cuttin a piece of pumpkin for a customer

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And more later!! Time to do some housework!!

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