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The finished Garlic Soup with Croutons.🥣😋 Delish. The 15 cloves of garlic are present but mellowed & slightly sweet. Trying to start the tagged book for #FoodandLit #Israel rather than waiting until the last possible minute like last month.

Link to soup recipe is ⬇️

Finally took the time to think about some of my #FoodandLit #Israel 🇮🇱 plans for April. I‘m going with the tagged book for my read after going through a list of novels I was interested in. My final choice was made because library had the ebook available.😉 Hopefully I‘ll like it.

My library also had the 2 cookbooks on the left in e-books & I own Jerusalem & Falastin so I‘ll be picking a few dishes to make, probably soup & salads of some sort.

Three Israeli girls from a small town are conscripted into the IDF, and Boianjiu follows them around with these interconnected short stories. Trigger warnings for all sorts of violence, though not graphically portrayed. Gives a disquieting look at the region, and this intense buildungsroman issue for most Israeli teens. Maybe a little too melodramatic at the end, but the direct narrative and unsentimental writing always stays real. #JewLit

"We were girls. I know we were just girls. We did what we did in the army, and then it was over. If Lea was having a hard time talking or leaving her parents' backyard when we were twenty-one, it was not because of the past; I know that. I admit it; the problem was the future of the past. It existed outside our heads, too large."