Aloha Bread Lovers
Aloha Bread Lovers – This Sunday we will be serving up Shakshuka for you. Tomatoes, onions, garlic olive oil, plenty of great spices that all cook slowly overnight. When you order it we crack one egg or two (your choice) into it and bake it in the oven until the egg is ready. It is served with a fluffy roll perfect for mopping it up. And, we will have our Uke Jammers playing to round out what can be an ideal Sunday at Motek!! For those of you who have been enjoying our fresh pasta (this week Fettuccine again by popular demand) – remember, it’s fresh pasta so it needs much less cooking time – start checking it after 2 minutes and make sure that you add plenty of salt to the water.
In other news, we had the pleasure of having some friends over for dinner the other night. They noticed that we have a collection of various pot shards on our window sill that we brought with us when we moved here from Israel. They asked about them and I told them that I found them on the beach. I used to have a 20 ft. catamaran that I kept at a sailing club that was at a beach next to the ruins of the ancient Roman seaport of Caesaria, about 40 miles north of Tel Aviv. Back in the day, Caesaria was a major port whose ruins remain remarkably intact, made with cement that was mixed with volcanic ash that the Romans brought in from Mt. Vesuvius in Italy. In fact the ancient Roman amphitheater now serves as a concert venue. I guess that even way back when, various clay vessels fell into the ocean at the port. Every so often, just walking along the beach where I would launch my catamaran you would see an ancient amphora handle or shard poking up in the sand, which I of course collected. This then led us to a discussion about the Roman conquest of Judea. In 135CE the Roman emperor Hadrian renamed Judea in order to punish the Jews following their revolt led by Bar Kochba. His goal was to sever the link between Jews and their land. The name that he chose was that of the main adversary of the Jews at that time, the Philistines (remember Goliath?) who lived mainly along the coast of what is today Gaza and Southern Israel. In addition to renaming Judea, he also renamed Jerusalem, calling it Aelia Capitolina. After putting down the revolt, he sold most of the Jews into slavery, apparently glutting the market in Egypt at the time; he forbid the remaining Jews from entering his new capital, Aelia Capitolina and forbid Jewish practice such as circumcision. And there you have it…. all of this from a pot shard.
Mahalo – David and Yael
P.S. – A Joke: WARNING – CLICK ON THIS LINK AT YOUR OWN RISK (rated “G”): https://www.oldjewstellingjokes.com/2018/10/25/suzanne-shepherd-my-aunt-malka-225/
