Yemenite breakfast

Some days you just wake up and feel like an Israeli, or at least pretend to feel like one. This morning I had two fried melawach smothered in cheeses, hard boiled egg and schug (extremely hot pepper sauce). According to Mr. Wiki, Malawach or malawah is a Yemeni-Jewish bread. Resembling a crepe, malawach is made up of hundreds of thin pancake layers. It is usually fried. It was excellent, definitely a change from cereal and milk, French toast and pancakes. I am usually not much of a breakfast person, but I figured I would give something new a try. Using Scott’s recipe, I covered them in spread-able Bulgarian cheese, Labeneh and Zatar. They also got a liberal spread of red and green schug, I am really feeling Yemenite this morning.

Toasted Parmesan

Toasting parmesan cheese might sound like a great idea, but as I found out the hard way, it’s not. Think about it, wonderful little crumbs of lightly toasted and slightly crispy cheese, what could be better? After thinking about it and realizing the only thing standing between me and the realization of my dream is action, I got busy. The first stupid thing was using baking paper instead of tinfoil. The second was probably forgetting about it while it was baking. The resulting fire was probably caused by the baking paper igniting, incinerating any traces of parmesan cheese. It was doused with a coffee cup full of water conveniently sitting in the sink, and disaster was averted. The toaster is fine and so are we; the cheese was unfortunately beyond salvage. I guess its back to the gastronomic drawing board.