July 19, 2009...3:36 pm

An Egyptian Breakfast from a Garden in Cairo

I just came back from a two-week trip to Egypt and took pictures of practically every meal I ate. Here are some pictures from a breakfast we ate in the garden in my dad’s villa outside Cairo.

Usually, we eat fuul, beans with cumin, olive oil and lime; some kind of egg dish (in this case, we ate it with bastirma, salted cured beef); an assortment of cheeses (gibna rumi, gibna bayda, Laughing Cow cheese); and chopped tomatoes and cucumbers, all served with warm pita bread.

There is a dessert section of breakfast, if you can believe it — strawberry jam and black molasses to dip with leftover bread. And lots of tea with milk to wash everything down.

Bread and eggs

Vegetables and glasses for milk tea.

Kiri and Istanbuli cheese and gibna rumi, a very sharp cheese.