Since we were still in the "We need to find a place to live ASAP" mode, our anniversary was fairly low-key, but still fun. We scouted out a good place for dinner and settled on an Ethiopian joint in a little alley off of Agrippas Street. It was really delicious food, and fun to eat because their were no utensils. You had better have clean hands because those are what you eat with.
I had expected to use my hands and not a fork because I had the lucky occasion to eat at an Ethiopian restaurant in Seattle. We went ahead and ordered three platters, not knowing how much food comes with each. It ended up being way more than enough! We had a platter with a meat dish, a platter with a dish of ground vegetables, and another dish of the Ethiopian bread cut up and cooked with yummy sauce and minced meat. The flavors were all different and tasty. Our favorite was the plain meat dish (in the photograph above, it is the brown one on the left).
Rafi is a wonderful man who I am so happy to have in my life. Each day he shows me how much he loves me and I fall even more in love :) It has been great to have this adventure in Israel with him and be able to live with him without any of the issues that other couples face.
After we were stuffed full from the spongy bread and filling, we still had a bunch of food on the platters. We only ate about half of the food we ordered so we wanted to take the rest home. Rafi asked for a box or something to pack it in. The Ethiopian lady who was running the place (and who did not speak much Hebrew or English at all), said that they did not have any boxes. She gave us two plastic bags instead. I guess that they do not usually have fatty Americans ordering obscene amounts of food and wanting to take it home with them. Rafi and I used the leftover sponge bread as a base and piled the fillings into it. We wrapped the bulging mass up and carefully put it right into the plastic bag (double bagged for safety). It worked! We brought it home and immediately transferred it to a more secure tupperware. The food was great the next night reheated in the oven and so our efforts were rewarded :)
Since we were still in the "We need to find a place to live ASAP" mode, our anniversary was fairly low-key, but still fun. We scouted out a good place for dinner and settled on an Ethiopian joint in a little alley off of Agrippas Street. It was really delicious food, and fun to eat because their were no utensils. You had better have clean hands because those are what you eat with.
I had expected to use my hands and not a fork because I had the lucky occasion to eat at an Ethiopian restaurant in Seattle. We went ahead and ordered three platters, not knowing how much food comes with each. It ended up being way more than enough! We had a platter with a meat dish, a platter with a dish of ground vegetables, and another dish of the Ethiopian bread cut up and cooked with yummy sauce and minced meat. The flavors were all different and tasty. Our favorite was the plain meat dish (in the photograph above, it is the brown one on the left).
Rafi is a wonderful man who I am so happy to have in my life. Each day he shows me how much he loves me and I fall even more in love :) It has been great to have this adventure in Israel with him and be able to live with him without any of the issues that other couples face.
After we were stuffed full from the spongy bread and filling, we still had a bunch of food on the platters. We only ate about half of the food we ordered so we wanted to take the rest home. Rafi asked for a box or something to pack it in. The Ethiopian lady who was running the place (and who did not speak much Hebrew or English at all), said that they did not have any boxes. She gave us two plastic bags instead. I guess that they do not usually have fatty Americans ordering obscene amounts of food and wanting to take it home with them. Rafi and I used the leftover sponge bread as a base and piled the fillings into it. We wrapped the bulging mass up and carefully put it right into the plastic bag (double bagged for safety). It worked! We brought it home and immediately transferred it to a more secure tupperware. The food was great the next night reheated in the oven and so our efforts were rewarded :)
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