Foodporn

Someone asked for more photos on my last post.. thanks for the comment! Luckily there is definately no shortage of pictures to denote, but instead of showing you another city, I decided to collect all the mouthwatering food-snaps I made during the last weeks. Enjoy!

(Please click on the pictures to see them in bigger size.)

Tel Aviv

friday night dinner on my arrival day - sweet potatoes, all kinds of salads, scrambled egg, onion pie, garlic bread.. yummie!

a never ending bowl of grilled vegetables with Iced Lemon Mint

streetfood: different kinds of hot beans butter and spices

"Kunafeh", also called "Baklava" in Turkish

the market of Tel Aviv

sweets, sweets, sweets..

Jerusalem

artistic spices

a small market in the middle of the street leading to Damascus gate (my favourite area in the Old City of Jerusalem)

all kinds of meat roasting on charcoal

fantastic lamb with fresh vegetables

more sweets

Ramallah

fresh Mango juice with a lot of ginger - a challenge, but unbelieveably tasty!

a crispy-cross falafel sandwich best served during sunset

can't walk by a bakery in Palestine (Israelis can't do it as good - at least that's what I was told by an Israeli :P) without buying at least one of those warm, sweet smelling and steaming pitas... 

LOVE!!!

Nablus

Nablus is known as the capital of Kunafeh..

..a name that I can understand!

Bethlehem

all I wanted was some Falafel with a little bit of Hummus and this is what I got (for 3€) :D

those guys got the real deal

Frozen Coffee at "Stars & Bucks", located in Bethlehem, Ramallah and Nablus

Home Made

my favourite dish of all, which sounds, smells and tastes like love: Shakshouka

"Ugat Schmarim Chocolat" 

it's even better than it looks!

Haifa

a single "Kubbeh" for 7ILS (1,40€) - not the best deal, but delicious

Akko

dates, drying while still on their sticks

Safed / Tsfat

delicious cheese made it Tsfat and homemade sweets - I got invited for this, obviously I looked hungry

Golan Heights

this is what my dear host in the Golan, Atar, called the "best falafel in all Israel"

never seen growing bananas from so close

I can imagine the sweetness already.. haven't tried any bananas here yet, though

Nazareth

another (Arabic) version of Shakshouka, created by the lovely owner of the lovely guesthouse I stayed in in Nazareth: Ramzi/Abu Saeed

he used a very special olive oil, which made the dish even more delicious

the market of Nazareth, the only "Arabs only"-city in Israel, comes up with hundreds of different spices..

..and almost as many different sweets!

noodles being processed into Kunafeh - this guy, Azmi, was busy making 20 trays of Kunafeh for a wedding with over 1000 guests (they will pay around 6000ILS, 1200€ only for the sweets)

if this isn't porn for you then I really don't know

Jenin - paradise for food-lovers

I wish I could send the smell to your homes.. wow!

the basis of "Ramadan pancakes", which will be filled with cheese, sugar and walnuts

I felt like the whole city of Jenin was a single market

through some connections I was invited for dinner by the owner of the guesthouse I stayed in

needless to say that this was just un-be-lieve-ably good

I have to mention that I also was invited for Rosch HaSchanah (Jewish New Year), by the lovely couple that had been sitting next to me in the plane to Israel, which was of course unbelieveable delicious and beautiful as well. Especially the dessert - a giant fruit plate and even homemade passionfruit icecream - are still vividly present in my memories. Unfortunately, as Rosch HaSchanah is one of the most important holidays in Judaism, and as religious Jews do not use any electricity throughout the celebrations, I considered it impolite to get out my camera, so I didn't take any pictures. I am invited to another friday night's dinner tomorrow, though, and am hoping to get some snaps there.

Shortly after that, on sunday afternoon, I will have to say goodbye to all of these delicious things you just saw and say hi to the "Mehlspeisen" of Vienna. Sad, but not too horrible, considering that I will have the Naschmarkt, which offers a great variety of spices and (more or less) fresh falafel and decent hummus as well, within twenty minutes of reach. Yalla!