The key to this soup is to make sure that it comes to a full boil before lowering the flame and allowing the soup to cook for a few hours.

The soup needs to reach a boiling temperature in order for the barley and beans to breakdown properly. In a large pot heat the oil over medium heat.

Add the onion, carrot, and celery along with a big pinch of salt. Stir to coat the vegetables in the oil and salt and cook for about 10 minutes until the vegetables have begun to soften and onion and celery are translucent.

While the vegetables cook place the barley, beans, and split peas in a fine-mesh strainer and rinse with water and check for stones.

Add the rinsed barley, beans, and peas to the pot along with the water, another pinch of salt, and the black pepper. Allow the soup to come to a boil then cover the pot.

Place the pot over the lowest flame and simmer for 3 hours. Make sure to stir the soup with a wooden spoon every 20 minutes or so to make sure that nothing is sticking to the bottom.

You don't have to be so diligent about stirring during the first hour as nothing has really broken down yet. However, during hours two and three the split beans will be soft and have a tendency to get stuck to the bottom of the pot.

This recipe makes about portions, but I recommend doubling it and freezing it that way you can have this soup on hand for those cold winter nights.

Just make sure that when you reheat the soup to add a little bit of water. There's a crisp chill in the air and it's a little bit rainy - everything about it just feels cozy.

When I was little I remember my family had a big Thanksgiving meal a couple of times, but what I really remember is that a few years we went to the movies and had pizza for dinner.

I loved those moments of just me, my siblings, and my parents just simply having a good time. When I got older, we had more traditional Thanksgiving meals with more people with the big turkey and all the works - stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, roasted squash, green beans, and cranberry sauce and of course trying to get the perfect bite of everything at once.

Even though we were stuffed more than the turkey there was always plenty of dessert with a choice of pecan pie and pumpkin pie.

Pecan pie is delicious and I could go for a slice right now, but there's just something about the pumpkin pie that makes me happy. The sweet rich flavor of the pumpkin enhanced by the cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove all come together in a creamy custardy pie, it's the perfect way to end off Thanksgiving.

Being that this week is Thanksgiving I thought it would be appropriate to make a muffinmonday reminiscent of those pumpkin pie flavors.

For this recipe, you can use a can of pumpkin puree or make your own - which is really simple to do! Spray a standard-size muffin pan with oil or line with paper liners.

In a large bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice. Add the sugars, eggs, vanilla, pumpkin puree, oil, and milk.

Mix until just combined and smooth. Scoop into prepared the prepared muffin pan. Bake for minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Yield: 1 dozen standard-size muffins. Pumpkin or Squash Puree. The abandoned neighborhood, as well as other evacuated Arab neighborhoods were looted by the displaced Jews and Israeli soldiers who entered empty Arab houses, a phenomenon that the Jewish authorities failed to halt, usually turning a blind eye to it.

The looters also took door and window frames, and taps , which made the relocation of refugees more difficult.

Jewish immigrants and government officials joined the Old City's refugees and settled in Katamon after the war. In order to allow as many people to live in the neighborhood, the apartments were divided into smaller units.

In buildings which housed one family, three or four new families were settled. Because of the difficulties, unauthorized renovations and improvised extensions made by the residents.

Some of Katamon's buildings were designated for public needs, such as synagogues, schools, kindergartens and places for elders. One of the apartment buildings was used as a new location to the Misgav Ladach hospital, originally from the Old City.

In the early s, many public housing projects were built in Katamon, often using the Wild Bau cladding style - a random rubble masonry pattern - which was adopted by modernist architects in Jerusalem.

In the early s, a process of gentrification began in Katamon when people of the middle class bought the apartments where low class residents lived and started renovating them, reuniting the apartments that were split after and overall raising the standards of the houses.

Katamon attracted many people because of the character of its small "Arab styled" houses, with yards, stone walls and gates, porches, tiled roofs and stylized floors, located close to the city's center.

The neighborhood had a slow process of population change and social and physical renewal. The conservative and semi-rural character attracted, mainly after the s, families of Jewish immigrants, mostly wealthy religious ones from western countries, who were able to purchase and renovate the houses.

Since the s, the neighborhood, which was populated mostly by secular and masorti Jews, has been having a process of Haredization , including the construction of apartment blocks for Haredi Jews.

A major landmark in Katamon is the Saint Simeon monastery, known to Jerusalemites as San Simon he , on a hilltop to the north.

The monastery is now surrounded by a large park in the neighborhood known as Givat Oranim. In the center of the neighborhood lies the Recha Freier square.

Around the square are five historical buildings that were used for the embassies and foreign consulates of Lebanon during the British era only , Poland, Venezuela, El Salvador,Belgium and Greece.

The Greek consulate remains there since the s as the Greek consulate in Jerusalem. Katamon is also home to the Israel Goldstein Youth Village he , which has a number of school programs boarding and day schools , especially for Russian and French Olim.

Katamon was the home of several foreign consulates , among them the Greek consulate, the Italian consulate, and the Costa-Rican consulate.

The Misgav Ladach hospital on the southern edge of the neighbourhood specialized in maternity care, but is now a Kupat Holim Meuhedet diagnostic center.

To the west, Old Katamon branches out into several neighbourhoods collectively called the "Katamonim" plural of Katamon ; officially Gonenim , lit.

Some of those neighborhoods have a second name. Katamon Khet was built at the end of the s, and Katamon Tet in the mids.

The Katamonim are characterized by long apartment blocks on pillars, providing low-cost housing. Some of the buildings are still government-owned, although the Amidar housing company sold many of the apartments to the residents in the s.

Massive infrastructure improvement was financed by an urban renewal project known as "Project Renewal" over a period of two decades.

Many small apartments were combined into larger ones and the outward appearance of the apartment blocks was improved. This soup is very simple to prepare and only has 8 ingredients and I'm assuming you definitely have 4 of those ingredients already in your kitchen and the other 4 you most probably have as well.

Place the zucchini and smashed garlic cloves on a parchment-lined cookie sheet and toss with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and a pinch of salt.

Roast for 20 minutes until the zucchini is slightly golden around the edges. In the meantime heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a medium-sized pot over medium-high heat.

Add the onion along with a good pinch of salt and cook until the onion starts to become translucent about minutes.

Add the roasted zucchini and garlic, potato chunks, and water. Bring to a boil then reduce the heat, cover the pot, and allow the soup to simmer for about 15 minutes until the potato chunks are tender.

Remove the pot from the heat and blend the soup using an immersion blender. Log In. Powered by CITE. Are we missing a good definition for Katamon?

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