sukkot in the galilee

[Lior]

We spent sukkot at my brother's house. Here are pictures of breakfast in his sukkah:

Pancakes for breakfast...

[Rehovot]

It looks idyllic, Lior. Are those dates hanging from the sukkah?

[Lior]

Yes those are dates. We cut them off trees that line the streets. At first they are red and then when they turn brown they are ready to eat and are delicious!

[Jmahl]

Dear Lior,

Lovely, bravo - So what to eat?

Jmahl

[BarbaraY]

What a lovely setting for your celebration! I'm waiting to hear more.

[Lior]

Well thank you everyone!! So we put olive tree branches with leaves for the "roof" and then the date branches and fruit to decorate. For dinner we had salad- lettuce, red cabbage, red onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and pomegranate seeds, with olive oil and lemon juice. We had a spinich and cheese quiche, cheese lasagna, garlic spaghetti, aspagagus, and various cakes for dessert including baklavah types. Nothing fancy this time. My brother lives in a small community of 90 families on top of a mountain in the Galilee. The town is about 25 years old. The dinner was interesting because a communal huge sukkah was put up by the families and then each family had its own table and brought their own food. After dinner we had "singing in public" that is a translation so it sounds funny, but we hand out songsheets and sing folk songs and someone plays on the guitar and the "darbuka" which is a kind of drum.

Hence breakfast was in my brother's sukkah.