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…
Chickpea Tajine Dates and Swiss Chard Recipe
Chickpea Tajine
Mine is chock-full of delicious stuff: Dates, Swiss chard, almonds. Does this sound fabulous and nutritious or what?
I just spotted fresh dates!
I grin nostalgically at this unusual New York site, as if I had run into…
Vegetarian Cholent Soup Recipe. Meat Variation
Cholent Soup is a fantastic move-over-cholent recipe.
Don't get me wrong, I make cholent all the time. It's just that, Shabbos rolling in every week Thank Gd, I look for all possible variations on the cholent theme. As it is, I have a mega…
Halva Balls. Quick Halva Recipe. Gluten-Free
Halva Balls
It all starts with tehina, the crushed sesame paste rock star. We all love the wonderful taste of halvah: the great Sephardi dessert classic confection starring Tehina paste and sold all over Israeli and Middle Eastern markets.…
Crepes Recipe. All Fillings. Gluten-Free Friendly
Crepes
You say Pancakes, I say Crepes!
One bite and you'll understand why these French gems are so popular with children big and small!
How will we ever know how wonderful crêpes can be if all we’ve been doing so far is opening…
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…
Oatmeal Cookies Recipe with All the Fixin’s!
Oatmeal Cookies
My all-time favorite! I am obsessed with oats, and jump on every chance to use them, both in sweet and savory recipes. Take a look at my steel-cut oat soup, and at my Oats Pots de Creme, to take but two glowing examples.
This…
Pasta Tomato Sauce Recipe. All Variations
Pasta Tomato Sauce
There’s nothing more delicious than homemade. Homemade pasta tomato sauce is much easier than you think, and much superior to its commercial counterpart.
And so versatile: whatever you might like to throw in will…
Eggplant Roulades Recipe. Stuffed Vegetables Variations.
Eggplant Roulades are a great Sephardi dish.
Moroccans are big on eggplant, we just couldn't be without our eggplant. We use it in endless variations, from dips to main course and everything in between. These eggplant roulades are fun and…
Cold Avocado Cucumber Soup Recipe
Avocado cucumber soup: pure seduction!
Is chilled and spicy what you are after? OK then, avocado cucumber soup! Nothing to it. Oh, and no cooking whatsoever. Perfect for those days when it is too hot to turn on your oven or to enjoy after…
Moroccan Potato Tajine Recipe. All Variations
Potato Tajine is Sephardi food at its simplest and most fragrant.
Straight from the Moroccan kitchen of my childhood.
Potato Tajine is ridiculously simple:
Easy ingredients, easy maintenance. I have included several variations of this potato…
Mock Crab Salad with Corn Apple Recipe
I make Mock Crab salad at a moment's notice.
I made it this Shabbos, for my husband and I, as I was hatching a meal spartan enough (and of course delicious enough!) to atone for some of the magnificent meals we indulged in the whole Pessach…