flower + yeast + water + salt + honey = total awesomeness when eaten fresh out of the oven with Danish butter.
Full recipe can be downloaded here.
(This makes for two nice loafs of bread - so cut the recipe in half if you are not that hungry - or put one loaf in the freezer)
Last weekend I was back in Missoula Montana to talk a bit about my project 'Garbage Galore'. It is currently showing at Zoo Town Brew in Missoula. Garbage Galore is an ongoing project I am doing about garbage - food waste to be more specific. I am deeply fascinated by the amount of food we waste. So one August morning last year I decided to do some dumpster diving at the apartment building I was living in in Missoula. It was quite shocking what I found, tomatoes, juices, ice cream, left overs, bananas, lettuce still wrapped in the plastic it came in from the grocery store. I arranged it all on plates - washed it, cut it - made it look good - and photographed it. Did you know that in America 27% of all food produced for consumption goes straight to to waste? I repeated the procedure when I was in Kabul in December - and the difference in what I was able to find in the garbage tells the story! In Missoula I spent half a morning doing this... In Kabul it took several days and I had to go to several different garbage piles in the City to get enough food waste to make my plates up.
That night in Missoula at Zoo Town Brew they also showed this movie - The Story of Stuff. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. I would definitely say it is worth taking 20 minutes out of your life to watch this movie.
Eid al-Adha occurs the day after the pilgrims conduct the Hajj
On this day Muslims all over the world - who have the means to, sacrifice an animal (usually a goat or a sheep), as a reminder of Ibrahim's obedience to God. The meat is then shared out with family, friends (Muslims or non-Muslims), as well as the poor members of the community. .
I watched the sacrificing of a cow today as you can see in this gallery.
If you are vegetarian for political reasons - or just don't like blood in general, you probably shouldn't watch this!
I got the chai I was hoping for...
... and the kids - they got the lollipops from hell!
Today I am going to Salang to watch some humanitarian houses being build. Last week when I went up there it was cold - so I can only imagine that it will be colder today after more snow has fallen.
I am hoping for lots of hot chai... luckily that is one thing the Afghans have down - When it comes to chai - the Afghans are the most hospitable people in the world!
I have always been curious about the Afghan Bakeries.
Having lived in Kabul for 4 years I have had my share of Naan over the years, but I have always wondered how exactly they make it - and why - when you drive by at night - there are always people sleeping in there in the winter...
As they say;Curiosity killed the cat, so the other day I went inside one of the local Kabuli bakeries - to check out how it works. Here is a little series about The Afghan Bakery.
