Many years back – when blogging was THE thing to do – there was a group of three girls here in Germany that organized a blog exchange/swap with goodies from your kitchen. Think San’s Santa Mug Swap but baked and cooked deliciousness. I participated a few times. Those swaps always had a topic. I think once it was all the Christmas cookies (see a picture of my package in this post) when it was close to the holidays. Once it was favorite coffee cakes I think. And one was “Sommer im Glas” aka “Summer in a glass jar”.
After some thinking I settled on recreate the picnics I had with my family when we traveled in Israel. We shopped on the markets for pita bread and then got hummus and labané as a spread. Maybe some fruits and that was about it. Back in 2015 when I made this post it was not possible to get the spice zaatar in Germany. I had people bring it back to me from Israel. These days you can buy in Turkish or Oriantal shops. I am sure you can too wherever you live. Or you can make your own blend.
I also made homemade pita bread an hummus. All recipes are in the linked post and this blog treasure. The hummus was something I did for our white summer party too (I still owe you a recap – I know). A slightly different recipe though.
Reading this I really crave laban now. Maybe I should go ahead and do a batch. I have a lot of the spices sitting around and they are not getting better. Maybe it’s a good birthday gift for my mom in September.
Anyway, now go ad have a look at that old blog treasure.
Have you ever heard of the Qatar spice? Didi you happen to make hummus on your own? Have you ever had the cheese labané? Did you travel to Israel?
