Dinner at La Guta

La Guta is a French Moroccan restaurant in Jerusalem, on a quiet street in the German Colony. My roommate, Susan, and I decided to treat ourselves to a nice night out last week - after all, our dorm rooms look like hospital rooms!

It was an amazing place. See below!

Goose liver with chocolate sauce on Belgian waffle. I know, sounds weird, but divine!

Compliments of the chef: red bell pepper canapé.

The climax of the meal: duck confit. You can't go wrong with duck confit.

We shared a dessert - chocolate volcano with vanilla ice-cream and strawberry confit. I think I was too excited to take a picture! The strawberry confit was my favorite thing the whole evening - it tasted of caramelized strawberries. So luscious.

Stay tuned :)

Shalom from Jerusalem!

I had planned on blogging very regularly in Israel, but that was until El Al Airlines foiled my plans by confiscating my computer cord/charger! Apparently it's a dangerous object. But not too dangerous for the post - so I finally received it in the mail yesterday. Here are just some random pics to summarize my experience so far.

View of the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives.

Lamps inside the Holy Sepulcher.

Ultra-Orthodox Russian Jew at the Kotel (Western Wall). I can't believe the hat in this heat!

Hall of Names at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. Each of those volumes in those
shelves contains names and biographical information on Holocaust victims.

A peaceful image in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

More to come!