Beirut
Thanks Summer,
Well my mom makes Srak, I really can’t because I have the kids around me all the time, and it can get a little hard. I would have to say this is a type of pita bread, but it much thicker and has a pillow soft inside almost like French Bread. We just call it Khobiz Dar. But this bread is what My great great grandma makes, and who knows who else, and has been passed on forever. I don’t mind you blogging the video.
Thanks again for the encouragement. You really inspired me to make other traditional cooking clips.
Faten, This is so wonderful!! I love the recipe and the way you made your video!! (yes, shaky but not too bad editing and adding very appropriate music! )
Really, Thank you so much for all your work. this is Pita bread or Arabic bread not Saj, although you can use the same recipe for Saj. I cannot thank you enough!! If you do not mind, i would like to embed your video for bread making on my cooking blog when it is time to post the Saj bread recipe, in the next few days. the link is: http://cooking-the-easy-way.blogspot.com/
Here we go, good ol’ bread making =Þ
Rehab, I was not offended at all. The thing with comments is that we miss the human contact to its fullest…I mean we do not see the body language that comes with the voice and the way things being said on the comments, we miss the human aspect of it in a way or another. There is a hugs aspect of the commenting part is missing and sometimes it does not work in a positive way! At the end, we read the comments the way we imagine it being said…I hope you know what I mean.
Know well that I appreciate the comments that are listed on each and every one of my videos. This enriches the content of the site and brings us closer as an “ikbis” community closer to each other…I highly appreciate it. Thanks and really, have a wonderful day!!
Summer I Love checking out your different recipes and different ways to cook food. :) I’m soooo sorry if you took anything I said in offense:) That’s the problem with typing comments, sometimes my sarcasm doesn’t come through:( . I love all you guys!!!!!!! :) Oh I love you too Falahi Faten! :)
Huda, Branching out? you are kidding me! i just need to inculde recipes that are worthy of mentioning and appreciating by many. thanks for your comment and also thanks for spreading your “calming effect “on the comment part of this video :)
Fallaheen, peasants, bedwins, nomads or city people, we all know this type of bread and it represents a big part of our cuisine. Thanks again for showing up here, watching and leaving a comment.
Faten, This is great what you are doing to teach your kid’s class mates about our Islamic and middle eastern culture, keep up the great work you are doing…this is the only way to preserve our culture while living abroad…although i think that our own culture is not being appreciated or taught well in our own countries, but this is a whole subject that we should discuss on other occasions and on appropriate forums! Thanks again and I am still waiting for your bread video :)
Neddal, Thanks for the info about the bread. i believe that flat bread is found in most cultures across the globe, it is one of the first foods that were cooked by people.thanks again.
thanks summer for the video
i love Saj..with za3tar mainly..i can see u r branching out :D
faten ..very nice ,i am sure ur children were very happy and proud.
falaheen are the origin of civilization we are all fallaheen faten but we might have lost the connection with our everyday chores.
Rehab its wonderful to know how to do these things .our roots need to be watered with knowledge of tradtions and keeping them every now and then
neddal i love this cartoon thanks
:D
more videos summer..more more..
Oh very nice Faten , I like the people who are like you and try to keep our customs and traditions even they are living abroad , Thoub is looking nice too , I love it , and I want you to know that my mother and most of my aunties are still making it themselves and wearing it these days even . and also I wanna say a BIG THANX for Summer bcoz she is posting these wonderful videos in English to let all the people from different parts of the world see our food types made by her skilful hands .and in my opinion both of u are contributing in the maintainance of our identity each in her special way
I did the presentation that day for 8 classes, and later at my sons school for the first grade. They were learning about Hanukkah and Christmas Traditions so I included the Eid in the program and yes….. that’s me in the thoub. Kids that day tasted dates for the first time, Wore “Dashadesh,” played with tabla’s and lanterns and learned alto about a Holiday celebrated by many people around the world.
is this u faten ???
I guess you can call me Fallahe =Þ
I was in my daughters school the other day doing a Eid Presentation wearing a thoub I made with my Mom when I was 15. And as I talked about what we wear on Eid in Palestine and Jordan I talked about the Thoub and how its rare to find ladies making a thoub nowadays because you can buy one machine made for soo cheap and it got me thinking abou the time I spent with my mom as I made the thoub. The bond when I was 12 as she would bring out 2 big bowls of flour. One for me and one for her. I really did;nt take anything you said in offense Summer, and I dont think Rehab did either to be honest. But I did think It was funny how some people would think that making Saj bread as soo foreign and others see it as a everyday routine
There is a very similar type of bread in India and Pakistan called Chapati , it is almost the same like Saj bread , Chapati or chapatti (Marathi: पोळी Hindi: चपाती, Urdu: چپاتی, IPA: [cəpa:t̪i]) is a type of roti or Indian bread eaten in South Asia and East Africa. In many areas of South Asia, particularly the north of the subcontinent, and in East Africa, it is the staple food. It is made from a dough of atta flour (whole grain durum wheat), water and salt by rolling the dough out into discs of approximately twelve centimeters in diameter and browning the discs on both sides on a very hot, dry tava or frying pan (preferably not one coated with Teflon or other nonstick material). If the chapati is held for about half a second directly into an open flame, causing it to puff up with steam like a balloon, it becomes the Gujrathi and Punjabi phulka. The steaming (ballooning) step can also be achieved by placing the chapati in a microwave oven for five to ten seconds. However, because microwave cooking can cause the chapati to become soggy, a heated grill or open gas flame is recommended. see it here Summer
Faten, i cannot wait to see your video! glad you are going to tape yourself making the bread, please make sure you include your recipe too. I am never against traditions when it comes to many things in life but again if there was a easier way to do things and come out with the same exact results, i go for it. i hope you daughter will keep the tradition against all the odds. have a great day too.
Rehab, it seems like you were offended by my reply to George!!
well, i know of no one that makes this type of bread at home, but if you, your mom and faten are still making it at home, then more power to you!!! no offense intended with my comment!
and yes, i use my microwave to cook few dishes…no surprise at all….why not use technology if it is available at our fingertips! thanks for coming by and watching the video. of course thanks for your comments always! Have a wonderful day.
I love your pic Neddal! So funny!
I am making bread tomorrow and I am taping it just for Summer and Ikbis =Þ
With the way the world is today, traditions are slowly fading., so its sooo important to keep things like making bread the good ol’way alive no matter how Americanized we are here in the US. I only hope my daughter does the same.
AHEM AHEM AHEM….... Summer???? Live in a tent?? My mom makes saj bread @ home in her backyard, and she doesn’t live in a tent. She doesn’t do it alot but she does make it on the Saj. She (and me, and Faten) all make home made bread. I guess We are just the kind of people who like homemade fresh food. That’s why I was really surprised that you use a microwave to cook dishes in. When we do everything the way our grandma cooks, it’s much harder, but it’s worth it.
Solid Snake, you can flip any fying pan and heat it and cook your bread on it!! :)
am in love with that bread specially with Nutella!!!
but we dont have saj at home :(
No, I mean his mother is also making the saj bread in home , and as u see on his satellite :)
Really funny Neddal!
No relation to abu mahjoob.
and also if she is the mother of Abu Mahjoob ;)
Very funny George!! NO ONE makes it at home anymore unless they live in a tent! thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
At first i though you’re going to do it at home! I dont think anyone does saj at home these days. Thanks for the video :)
Faten, looking forward to more of your traditional dishes videos….Musakhkhan, Maqloubeh, Mansaf, Safeeha with meat or Fatayer with spinach and any other you think of….thanks!