almond cookies
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Moroccan Almond Cookies Recipe. Ghriba. Vegan.

Almond Cookies We Moroccans love anything made with almonds, whether in cooking or baking. These crescent-shaped almond cookies are a  great Moroccan favorite, called ghriba. Consider them theMoroccan cousins of shortbread cookies.   Traditionally…
Chocolate Tehina bars
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars Recipes. Gluten-Free

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars My chocolate Peanut Butter Bars were originally meant as celebration: I wanted to mark the occasion with a special treat, when my granddaughter Musia was told she was no longer allergic to peanut butter. And…
pasta tuna sauce
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Pasta Tuna Sauce Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

Pasta Tuna Sauce: as funky as it gets! If it is true that opposites attract, no dish would bear this out better than this Pasta Tuna Sauce with Fennel. Tuna  and Fennel: yum! Besides, my pasta with tuna sauce is a whole new and fun way…
nut truffles
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Moroccan Spicy Nut Truffles Recipe

Nut Truffles They are for nut lovers only. All others need not apply. Sort of like the famous Pfeffernusse, only Sephardi style. Moroccan, to be exact. They make a perfect gift too. Move over chocolate, and enjoy your day off: you’re…
cauliflower pasta
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Cauliflower Pasta Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

Cauliflower Pasta: Yum!     You will love the robust flavor of  cauliflower. The roasting intensifies the flavors even further. I use frozen cauliflower, as it is already cut, cleaned, and every bit as delicious and nutritious…
hot cereal
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Hot Cereal Recipe. Breakfast for Champions. All Variations

Hot cereal is for all of us to enjoy! My idea of breakfast for Champions! Recently my very pregnant daughter Bella mentioned that her ob-gyn recommended she include more fiber and more vegetable protein in her diet. Always tinkering with the…
chicken tandoori
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Fish Tandoori Recipe. Chicken Variation

The term Tandoori is Indian. It means the dish is made in a Tandoor, or clay oven. Of course you don't need to have a tandoor oven to make a tandoori recipe! It signals the present of a yogurt or buttermilk in the sauce ingredients, which…
Almond Macarons with Chocolate Coffee Filling Recipe. All Variations
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Almond Macarons Recipe. All Variations

Much ado about Macarons! You will never think of macarons as institutional fare after you taste these elegant and easy treats, close cousins of the amaretto cookies, and distinct from the often institutional coconut-based macaroons. Gluten-free…
mocca oatmeal cake
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Oatmeal Cake with Chocolate Icing Recipe

Oatmeal Cake Oatmeal anytime! If you thought oatmeal was just breakfast, try oats in this fantastic oatmeal cake. Dessert doesn't get healthier than this! I adore everything oats The flavor, the texture, the ease of preparation, the…
Zabaglione
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Vegan Mock Zabaglione Recipe

Zabaglione is great, but can err on the rich side! I haven't had the authentic Zablaglione, the luscious Italian whipped egg-yolk-sugar-and-port cream classic dessert, since one day I got sick from -and ashamed of- splurging on it. But even…
cranberry bread pudding
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Cranberry Bread Pudding Recipe. Apple Variation. Gluten-Free Friendly

Cranberry bread pudding: Recycling in style! I often whip up this treat after a party, when I look to recycle my leftover bread. Attention gluten- free diners: Cranberry bread pudding is for you too! Any bread will do as long as it is not…
caramel sauce
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Homemade Caramel Sauce Recipe

Caramel Sauce It is delicious everywhere. It’s vegan, so I really mean everywhere. Over ice cream, pound cake, bread puddings, pies etc... You will love the silky texture, deep color and rich flavor of caramel sauce. At a very low labor…