I have come to realize something, there isn’t enough falafel talk on this damn blog. The lack of falafels might lead one to think I don’t actually LIKE falafel. but I do. I love falafel with a passion that sets the oceans aflame like petrol in a swimming pool, an inferno of….. err, yeah. So, I love falafel and have it every week. At least once, sometimes twice or even three times. As a poor cheap herbivore it isn’t always easy to go out and grab some food with your friends. And falafel here is so cheap! And so good. There’s a distinct lack of vegetarian cheap food here. Not complaining here.. I’m just saying. So we have falafels. Every time we go out with friends, my mother, on our own to buy obscure thingamajigs we end up eating falafels and drinking some cheap, cancer inducing, NO sugar drink.

I <3 falafel!

Ode to a falafel

You fill me up,

oh baby, that’s so yummy,

I love you,

ho.

Jump into my tummy.

I drench you in sauce,

with pickles and onion.

You aid me in my cause,

on my way to eating a million.

This poem ends now,

cuz’ nothing rhymes with orange!

(no, not even doorhinge, nice try though)

We had falafels for lunch today. Home made with amba sauce (that’s a mango sauce with vinegar) and some really tasty tahina. It really doesn’t matter that we eat falafel atleast once a week, every time we make it at home it’s special. It takes a long time with many preparations and then we eat them ritually. I ALWAYS eat them the same way and I ALWAYS have an extra falafel ball at the end with some sauce. I don’t have a recipe for falafels, because I never use one but I always have lots of parsley, some mint, buttloads of ground cumin, lemon, heaps of garlic, some chilli, salt, pepper, a few teaspoons of dried corainder.. and more. The thing is, I always make enough to feed a hungry army of herbivores so now we’re going to be eating falafels for dinner as well, and quite possibly for lunch and dinner tomorrow too! I’m not complaining, quite the opposite.

Before rolling the falafel up this is what it looks like. Lettuce, onion, tomato, cucumber, yellow bell peppers, tahina and amba sauce, all on a flat middle eastern bread called liba bread (that’s what they call it here in Sweden atleast!) Some heretics eat falafels in pita bread but that’s blasphemy!

What’s your favourite food?

ps. a picture of that lone falafel I always eat last, as a ritual sacrifice to the falafel gods!