Za'atar Bread

I love summer. It really is just the best season ever made.

In the summer, you can do a lot of things on the list that you've made during your New Year's resolution, and this is one of mine.

With so many great and extensive food blogs out there, I feel they have captured many a history and culture and coinkidink so that each item of food will witness at least 15 words of fame. So as a disclaimer, I am only an expert when it comes to my own pallette, but I will forever be a student of cuisine. I am merely a fanatic of food -- I would go Tom Cruise on a dish if the restaurant would let me. But in the spirit of summer and in the name of fulfilling resolutions, this blog will hopefully continue the food revolution that has started since man's first craving.

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[I thought I needed a formal introduction to my blog. That was a moment of excitement for me.]

Summer. Yes, back to my first thought. This summer I am spending it in Saudi Arabia, where I grew up and where I have been going during the summer for quite some time now. Yes, we have internet and no, I did not ride a camel or a magic carpet to school. That will be another post for another time. But for those of you who know and love za'atar, I am getting my money's worth of this herbed goodness. For the most part, the za'atar I eat is a filling for brick oven baked flatbread, and is made of certain spices such as thyme and oregano with sesame seeds. It has a little hint of sourness with a little bit of the salty...very nice and zesty with the flatbread. I've been getting these flatbreads at the local commissary, and they have other fillings now such as mozzarella, cheddar, labneh (a softer and lighter cream cheese), and this other cheese that I can't distinguish. We (family and friends) have just always referred to it as "cheese bread" not really knowing what type of cheese it is. Who knew that this simple flatbread could make a girl happy?

This concludes my first post. I'll try to put a picture up of za'atar bread sometime soon. I know you Aramco/Saudi brats will love it.