Barley Kabocha Kale Salad Recipe
Barley Kabocha Kale Salad Recipe
Delightful, vibrantly colored and super nourishing main course salad. Equally at home in all seasons, and delicious warm or at room temperature. You will love the texture lineup too!
Barley is Underused!
This…
Pasta Puttanesca Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Pasta Puttanesca
What’s with the risqué name? How can I describe politely the inspiration for this dish’s name? OK. You know what, I will give the job to Wikipedia. I quote:
“Because "puttana" means roughly "whore" or "prostitute"…
Beef Chow Fun Recipe. Gluten-Free
Chow Fun
A delightful Cantonese noodle dish with stir-fried beef or chicken. Short and sweet and potent list of ingredients, perfectly harmonious. I first fell in love with it when Matt, Chef - Owner of Chop Chop Kosher Chinese Restaurant,…
Swiss Chard Pasta Recipe. Variations
Swiss Chard Pasta
We make a lot of noise about kale, and rightly so. Kale is indeed good and good for you. But Swiss chard is what we grew up with. Don't get me wrong: I love kale and use it every chance I get. I just wish we would give Swiss…
Cauliflower Pizza Crust Recipe. Bread Variation
Cauliflower Pizza Crust
Talk about a most unpretentious vegetable that turns out to be, in each recipe, so much more than the sum of its modest parts!
Cauliflower: The Low Carb Low Cal Powerhouse!
It is like a chameleon,…
Fettuccini in Cheese Beer Sauce Recipe
Cheese Beer Sauce
I am playing on riffs on the perennial classic: My own take here is like an Alfredo Sauce on steroids. You say cream and milk, I say stout! I got inspired by a rustic and funky cheese dip we used to feast on in our lean…
Moroccan Quinoa Salad with Mint and Raisins Recipe
There are dozen ways to make a wonderful Quinoa Salad, all exciting and all healthy and delicious, and all gluten-free. Quinoa is the grain I use most often in salads, even in Tabouleh
I am going with a decidedly Sephardi Quinoa Salad, with…
Pasta Bolognese Recipe. Cabbage Noodles Variation
Pasta Bolognese
The lazy-but-health-minded cook's gastronomic dream actualized.
Deconstructed Pasta and Meatballs. To parody Mark Twain, Pasta Bolognese and Sloppy Joe are nothing but spaghetti and meatballs with a college education. You…
Black Rice Risotto with King Oyster Mushrooms Recipe
Black Rice Risotto
Black rice is also called purple rice and forbidden rice. It deserves all the evocative aliases it goes by. Deep in color and flavor, with an appealing bite and nutty notes. It turns a dish into something…
Spinach Lasagna Recipe. Gluten-Free and all Variations
Lasagna is a real chore to me, sorry.
Dear reader, please don't ask me why until recently I found the preparation of lasagna so daunting.
I do love lasagna flavors, and I do appreciate it as a great treat. I can whip up a couscous or a Bourguignon…
Kasha with Onions and Mushrooms Recipe. Gluten-Free
Kasha with Onions and Mushrooms
Kasha, onions, mushrooms: Perfect expat Jewish food. Mine is a super modern and healthy take on an Old World Classic.
Not Love at First Bite
Good Sephardi that I am, it took me quite some time to love the…
Roasted Vegetable Lasagna Recipe. Gluten-Free-Friendly
Roasted vegetable lasagna is only one of the many ways you can enjoy lasagna. Vegetable lasagna can be made with a great variety of vegetables, variety of fillings (vegetables, tomato sauce, spinach, etc.), all good. Try this no-tomato vegetable…