This post is for my brother… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Shawarma is roasted meat on a revolving spit (much like gyro is done) it can be lamb, turkey, chicken, beef, veal or a mix of meats.<\/p>\n
They cut it off the spit, smear some hummus & if you like it ‘spicy’ some pepper paste into a pita, stuff the meat in & put in a cucumber & tomato salad. \u00a0Then there’s a bar with so many yummy options, both spicy & not. \u00a0I chose roasted eggplant, pickled eggplant (which were about the size of a large grape tomato and PURPLE), a cabbage & carrot salad (which had a little kick to it and some really amazing Mediterranean spices), and pickles – adding them one at a time from my cute little bowl – they were all amazing.<\/p>\n
Chris accidentally picked a tomato & what looked like jalapeno topping with cilantro, which was good, but really spicy. \u00a0I took one bite with that one.<\/p>\n
They had a bottle of tahini you could squirt over the whole thing, but i opted out of that.<\/p>\n
The meat was juicy and tender with a flavor I can’t describe except to say it tastes like shawarma (I know, that’s not helpful)… like little slices of pork, really (though i know it’s not pork) roasty and just mmmmm.<\/p>\n
I have to say that the cucumbers here are amazing… they just taste fresher somehow!! \u00a0The tomatoes aren’t much different than home. \u00a0Oh, and the pita… let me just say it was the best pita I have ever had.<\/p>\n
There it is… and for all of you who have been here \u00a0had it – are you celebrating with me? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This post is for my brother… \ud83d\ude42 Shawarma is roasted meat on a revolving spit (much like gyro is done) it can be lamb, turkey, chicken, beef, veal or a mix of meats. They cut it off the spit, smear some hummus & if you like it ‘spicy’ some pepper paste into a pita, stuff … Continue reading Shawarma<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.naef.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}