I’m in love with a Hebrew cooking website
I’m not sure how I stumbled across it, but Batzek Alim (בצק אלים) translated as Filo Dough is one of the loveliest cooking websites I’ve ever seen. With pictures and text they give you a step by step description of how to make a variety of foods.
The recipes today were for Tzatziki with homemade crackers. Every picture is more beautiful than the next. My favorite part is that they give you a visual shot with everything labeled.
From the grated cucumbers down to the salt and pepper, they show you what is in the recipe, and how it should look when chopped or grated or sliced.
Another recipe for homemade chocolate pudding gave information about how different amounts of cornstarch would affect the final results. From this I learned the words for different sizes of teaspoons (flat, regular, generous?, heaping).
Anyway, with Shavuot tomorrow, you may want to take a look at this beautiful site…even if you don’t know Hebrew.
Updates: Thanks to Yael in the comments for the correct translation of Batzek Alim as "Puff Pastry", and also to Sharon for another good site. Another note..the third teaspoon I corrected to heaping teaspoon. My english is truly failing me.
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here is another good one: http://www.tals-cooking.com
Comment by Sharon — May 28, 2009 @ 11:44 am
Actually, ‘Bazek Alim’ is not filo dough, but puff pastry; and since the spelling of ‘Alim’ in Hebrew makes it a pun on the word ‘violent’, I suppose an English translation of the name might be ‘Rough Pastry’, although I’ll be the first to admit that’s quite lame.
Comment by Yael — May 29, 2009 @ 4:01 pm
I am so impressed that you read recipes in Hebrew!!
I would love to read the pudding recipe in English!! (though it looks like it needs an electric mixer, so I probably would never make it…)
Comment by Rivka with a capital A — June 2, 2009 @ 12:40 pm