The Eshchar Pub opened a year ago, and is one of the best creations of our off-the-beaten-track, pluralist, anything goes, slightly tree-hugging yeshuv. It’s basically an outdoor pub hangout, smack bang in the middle of the Pinat Chai (kiddy animal corner), with a tiny bar (shack) and a load of benches made from old wooden …
Well we had to try it. Sitting in a Chinese restaurant on a visit to Tel Aviv, enjoying all the old favourites… hot and sour soup, Szechuan beef and sesame rice balls… Husband suggested we open our own mini take-out in our yishuv. After all, we eat Asian food half the week in any case, …
[This blog is dedicated to my niece, Talia, who stayed with us for 5 weeks and who we are now starting to miss] Well the cottage cheese prices went down but that hasn’t stopped the protests. We haven’t joined them as our rent hasn’t gone up, but it’s still unebelievably expensive to live in this …
When I was a lass I distinctly remember my dad telling us of the good old days at the shukhakarmel [we are only talking 10 – 15 years ago] where you could get whatever was in season for a “shekel kilo!”. I pictured us living here, drowning in tomatoes 4 months a year, living off fruit …
Well after weeks of Husband moaning at me to “do something with those orangey-things on the tree” I finally got round to it somewhere amidst the post-pesach flotsam and jetsam. We have been wondering for some time what this gorgeous tree is in our garden. We have a “chinese lemon” tree that makes tiny lemons …