mango dressing
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Mixed Greens with Curried Mango Dressing Recipe

My mango dressing is bright and spicy! It is delightful not only over greens, but also with  fish or chicken, grilled or poached. The pungent curry is a wonderful foil for the fruity and tart mango. Use only as much mango dressing as will…
Chestnut Mushroom Soup
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Cholent Jazzed up: Chestnut Mushroom Soup Recipe

Chestnut Mushroom Soup sounds a lot more refined than cholent, doesn't it? And yet, that's pretty much all it is! This shabbos looked like it was going to be another unseasonably chilly day, soup weather. And I had several non-meat eaters…
black currant sauce
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Beef in Black Currant Sauce Recipe

Black currant sauce, with chocolate. Wow! Outrageous! Sorry I can't contain myself! Is this combo even safe, you might wonder? It is much better than safe: It's wonderful! The chocolate, cassis (a Black Currant Liquor, available at all…
tehina sauce
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Fish in Tehina Sauce Recipe

This fish in tehina sauce is a delicious and ridiculously easy It is a very good illustration of everything I promise in the Pantry Chapter of my new cookbook, The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen. Glorious Meals Pure and Simple: A Good Pantry:…
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…
chickpea soup
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Moroccan Chickpea Soup Recipe. Gluten-Free

Chickpea Soup Much dreamier than the sum of its modest parts. Nowhere near as plebeian as its ingredients suggests. Especially when you make chickpea soup, as I do, with all our wonderful Moroccan seasonings. The French term for chickpea is…
parsnips
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Parsnips in Moroccan Hot and Sweet Sauce Recipe

Poor parsnips too often serve as crowd actor And then, ultimate indignity, they get discarded, as in chicken soup. Pfffttt, just like that! Not fair! But in this delicious dish, parsnips are IT! You will also love the simplicity of the dish.…
fig tart
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Fig Tart Goat Cheese Recipe

Fig Tart with goat cheese! Add to this winning pairing rosemary and honey! Rustic, funky and unpretentious elegance. My Fig tart is easy to make the gluten-free way too: You could use any flour you like! No cooking wine or cooking sherry…
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…
lamb meatballs
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Lamb Meatballs in Apple Chutney Sauce Recipe

Lamb meatballs are a great ethnic favorite. I had just made a batch of  Apple Tomato Chutney. It just looked too delicious to be used only as a condiment; I went all out and incorporated it in these Indian lamb meatballs. Needless to add,…
Teryiaki Sauce Recipe
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Teryiaki Sauce Recipe. Suggested Uses

Teryiaki sauce is one of my great favorites. I live in the vicinity of several Chinese restaurants (who doesn't?). Every morning I watch the mountain of trash at their back door, and it always includes enormous jerry cans of teryiaki sauce:…