Zari Maharabani

 

Eggs
Potatoes
A baguette or similar long bun, with a good pocket to stuff
Salt, pepper, turmeric, to taste and enhance

 

Preferably on a cold, wintery and gray kind of day, boil eggs and potatoes. White eggs and white potatoes, most simple ones. In a medium pot, place the potatoes with their skin, no need to cut, together with the eggs. Boil until the eggs are hard and the potatoes are soft, simply poking the potatoes with a fork will let you know when they are ready.

 

Peel the potatoes and the eggs and place them in a shallow bowl. Mash them with the fork to a rough mash, salt to taste with salt, pepper and turmeric. Mix evenly. Warm your bun and cut it open just enough to stuff it. Add the seasoned eggs and potatoes.
Serve them to your granddaughter when she comes back from school, as you sit together, close enough to each other with a heavy blanket covering your legs, warmed by the space heater beneath, in a frigid, old, concrete-walled apartment, on a cold January in Israel. Eat silently, because you are not fluent in Hebrew and your granddaughter can’t speak Farsi. Don’t worry – she can feel it. She learned regardless. Love speaks louder in actions than in words, anyways.

 

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Savta Zari, z”l
A simple woman with a big heart.

 

With love,