Palestinians have amazing gastronomy. learn to cook some of their stuff. I make about 20kg of pittas and hummus every week for a mutual aid and costs me about 8$ per week. their food is amazing and cheap as fuck.
not gatekeeping, just advice, get the best olive oil you can, ideally from a shop you can taste it. And good zaatar is hard to find, avoid any from Walmart spice rack, chances are they replaced the actual zaatar herb (Hyssop in English) with oregano. Most of their food are cheap ingredients so those two key ingredients are important.
if you try Palestinian cooking with low quality oil and oregano instead of zaatar you’ll get something that tastes nothing like it’s meant to taste that.
Luckily its easy for me to avoid Walmart, I think the closest one is several thousand kilometers away. :D And I’m already a snob about olive oil so I got that one covered as well :) IIRC, theres a middle-east specialized spice/food shop fairly near me, I’ll go check their selection.
Anyone have a suggestions what to have for dinner?
Evidently if you put an egg, butter and a slice of american cheese in ramen, its magical tasting or something. Sounds like trash to me but worth a try. Unfortunately this is a NYT recipe and you end up going to archive.ph 3 times to read it (eff you, NYT). but its the most american thing ever.
Well that’s too bad.
Anyways… Anyone have a suggestions what to have for dinner?
Palestinians have amazing gastronomy. learn to cook some of their stuff. I make about 20kg of pittas and hummus every week for a mutual aid and costs me about 8$ per week. their food is amazing and cheap as fuck.
Excellent suggestion. I’ve been meaning to try something new. Thai and Italian is starting to get boring after 20 years.
not gatekeeping, just advice, get the best olive oil you can, ideally from a shop you can taste it. And good zaatar is hard to find, avoid any from Walmart spice rack, chances are they replaced the actual zaatar herb (Hyssop in English) with oregano. Most of their food are cheap ingredients so those two key ingredients are important.
if you try Palestinian cooking with low quality oil and oregano instead of zaatar you’ll get something that tastes nothing like it’s meant to taste that.
Good advice. :)
Luckily its easy for me to avoid Walmart, I think the closest one is several thousand kilometers away. :D And I’m already a snob about olive oil so I got that one covered as well :) IIRC, theres a middle-east specialized spice/food shop fairly near me, I’ll go check their selection.
Evidently if you put an egg, butter and a slice of american cheese in ramen, its magical tasting or something. Sounds like trash to me but worth a try. Unfortunately this is a NYT recipe and you end up going to archive.ph 3 times to read it (eff you, NYT). but its the most american thing ever.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016583-perfect-instant-ramen
I’m going for bagels
Bagels, for dinner? Isn’t bagel like a thing you eat with your afternoon coffee, like a donut? I’m fairly ignorant about bagels lol
Don’t let big bagel dictate when you eat them
I think I have never even seen a bagel. Big bagel is very inactive where I live.
You’re missing out. A good freshly made bagel is extremely tasty!
I dont doubt that. I just checked it out and its called (sort of) “water circle” in my language lol
That’s awesome; I like the descriptor! They are made by boiling the dough briefly then baking
I might have to use that from now on. What’s your language if you wouldn’t mind sharing?
Finnish :)
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesirinkeli
It’s basically bread with a hole in the middle, like a donut. Yummy, but nothing spectacular.
Breakfast bagels are pretty good, fried egg, bacon, and a slice of Swiss
I hope the Swiss was consenting to you slicing them up
Falafel Gyro.
Halal, of course.