Monthly Archives: February 2015

Recipes

Restaurant style Tomato Sauce

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This is a tomato sauce that can be put on anything!

Ingredients

  • 1 Onion, cubed
  • 3 Celery stalks, chopped
  • 1 Carrot, cubed
  • 4 cloves of crushed
  • 1 Can of crushed tomatoes
  • 100 grams Tomato paste
  • 1 tbls paprika
  • 1 tsp fresh basil
  • 1 tsp oregano
  • 1 tbls fresh parsley
  • 2 tsp Kosher salt
  • 1\2 tsp black pepper
  • 1 tbls brown sugar
  • If you’d like, a pinch of cumin
  • Olive oil for frying

Recipe

  1. Sweat the vegetables and garlic in a pot.
  2. Add the tomato paste and cook for 1 minute. Add the crushed tomatoes.
  3. Add all the spices and bring to a boil.
  4. Once boiling, bring down to a simmer and cook until vegetables are soft.
  5. Blend the sauce, and let simmer for another hour.
  6. Fix seasoning, and serve on anything!

Enjoy!

Reviews

A Magic Burger At Rabin Square

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20150217_125625Spending the day in Tel Aviv can be very tiring. Why you ask? Because if you aren’t a native, and don’t know the bus system, you are going to end up walking a ton like I did.

After having a meeting in south central TLV, I called a friend of mine to meet up for lunch. Problem is, it’s very hard to find a good kosher burger in the city of TLV, let alone a great one.

The trend in Tel Aviv is that a lot of restaurants are going kosher but in baby steps. So after looking online we found a kosher fast food burger joint called Magic Burger(Ibn Gvirol 64, Tel Aviv, Rabbanute Tel Aviv). Located next to the very popular and famous shwarma joint Dabush(also Kosher) where the Israelis have been fascinated by the robotic shwarma cutter for those who didn’t know that. In addition, the shwarma is spot on as well.

20150217_125429Back to Magic Burger, after walking up an appetite, I checked out the menu and it’s pretty straight forward. Hamburgers, Lamb Burgers or Chicken breast sandwiches. The place has been opened for a while and they have tried to mimic the classic american hamburger joints across america. the design is very simplistic and straight forward as their menu.

Back to the food. We both ordered hamburgers, I ordered a 400 grams which came as 2 patties stacked high, with a side of fresh cut potato slices.. I had a whole conversation with the owner about the place while taking my order about why he put’s wights on the burgers. He was claiming it speeds up the cooking process while I was saying, it pushes all the juices out of the burger. In the end he didn’t flatten our burgers and it took a bit longer but it was worth the wait.

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20150217_131931The sandwich was very big. Fitting in the two patties into the paper to hold the thing together was a challenge for the cook but he did a good job. My burger looked like it was going to eat my plate of fries! After glancing at this sandwich while adding lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and raw white onions it was a great and flavorful burger from start to finish. only problem was they didn’t toast the bun and it got soggy very fast, but the flavor was their all the way through. The potato slices where crispy and fresh which really took the meal to the next level. But it really is all about the burger at Magic Burger.

If you are going to go there, and try it out, first of all I highly recommend it, secondly plan your trip ahead of time because I ended up walking to the Bursa to catch the bus home and worked of that delicious lunch. So If you are traveling to Tel Aviv or are a local and have never been, try it out, it’s worth the trip!