Shakshuka
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Shakshuka Recipe. All Variations. Gluten-Free

Shakshuka Shakshuka is expat food at its best! It's a dish of eggs poached in a sauce of fresh tomatoes, chili peppers, and onions, often spiced with cumin. It is overlaid with Sephardi flavors. The dish has become so popular you can…
Caprese
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Caprese Salad Recipe. Main Course Variations

Caprese Salad   This delightful salad heralds spring as surely and as exuberantly as Forsythia and Daffodils We all love its intoxicating fragrances and bright Italian Red-White-and-Green Flag colors. In spring and summer the…
lemon poppy seed cake
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Lemon Poppy Seed Cake Recipe

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake is one of my favorite cravings gratified. I adore lemon and poppy seeds, and when they are together, chock-full of each, I'm just mad about the lemon poppy seed combo.  This lemon poppy seed cake cake tastes fantastic…
cold fruit soup
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Cold Fruit Soup Recipe. Gluten-Free

Cold fruit soup is an exuberant celebration of summer. You will love the ruby color and tart flavors of red fruit. Cold Fruit Soup is equally at home as a soup or a dessert. Even in the heart of summer, I make this cold fruit soup with…
ice cream sandwiches
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Ice Cream Sandwiches Recipe. Sugar Cookies

Ice Cream Sandwiches are a breeze! Once you make Sugar Cookies, your blank canvas is laid out: ice cream sandwiches waiting to happen! Good news: Any of you enjoyed the gorgeous day yesterday and admired with me the luscious looking blossoms…
Ice cream cake
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Lemon Cake Recipe

Non-Lemon-Lovers need not apply! This lemon cake is perfect for brunch but also for dessert, with fruit or sorbet. The baked lemon cake gets soaked all over with a luscious lemon syrup. You are in for a treat! This is a decidedly dairy cake.…
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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…
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Cheese Latkas Recipe. Gluten-Free-Friendly

Cheese latkas make the best dessert! I have my mother-in-law to thank for turning me on to cheese latkas, and indeed all latkas, which she used to whip up anytime we tugged at her heartstrings, Chanukkah or not, and often for a light lunch,…
Cheese Babka
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Cheese Babka Recipe. Optional Topping

Cheese babka like this one? You won't find it in any commercial bakery, let me tell you flat out. In this cheese babka, the ricotta filling is wonderful, but you might prefer to use it in combination with farmer cheese and/ or cream cheese,…
caesar's salad
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Caesar’s Salad Recipe. Caesar’s Dressing

Caesar's Salad That’s one simple salad that never goes out of fashion! If caesar’s salad was eclipsed by a new salad on the block, however briefly, I missed that! Casesar’s Salad: Queen or King? The queen of salads, albeit with…
onion soup
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Vegetarian French Onion Soup Recipe

My onion soup recipe is in my first cookbook, Levana's Table I always thought I made a good onion soup, if I may say so myself. Mine lists Swiss cheese, provolone and parmesan. But I recently received from my daughter Bella a magnificent wheel…