Marble Cake Chocolate Jasmine Recipe
This marble cake is the ultimate!
If you haven't made a chocolate-jasmine match yet, it's long overdue! Check out my Roast Turkey Chocolate Jasmine Sauce
Submit to the seduction of chocolate and jasmine!
Jasmine tea is easy to find and adds…
Watercress Soup Recipe. Cold Variation
Watercress Soup
This soup is a great way to use watercress. Delicious cold too!
I love the spicy and pungent bite of watercress: It's perishable, so I try my utmost to use it on the same day I buy it: did you know it's the secret ingredient…
Fish Rolls Mushroom-Stuffed Recipe
Fish rolls are beautiful enough to use as main course.
The mushroom stuffing takes only a few minutes to make and freezes very well, so you might consider doubling the amounts and freezing the unused part for another meal. It will be suitable…
Polenta Casserole Au Gratin Recipe
For this polenta casserole and all other polenta dishes:
Please ignore those insipid cooked polenta rolls you find in the supermarket:
Making the polenta base takes minutes, and is the bulk of the work for this delicious dish, which will…
Tuna Burgers Recipe. All garnishes
The star of yesterday's shabbos lunch was these delicious tuna burgers, which I served with my famous Apricot Chutney.
What I love about tuna burgers is, you can eat them at any temperature, without running the risk of having some congealed…
Zucchini Chocolate Bread Recipe. Muffin Variation
Zucchini Chocolate Bread
I love the idea of quickbreads, whipped up at the drop of a hat, ready for guests and us on short notice, no kneading and no rising time. The added bonus is that they are only moderately sweet, placing…
Vegetarian Stuffed Artichoke Bottoms Recipe. Fish and Meat Variations
Artichokes: A great Sephardi favorite
We grew up in Morocco eating them in every shape and form, even for dessert. Someone in the food industry, bless him, has done all the pesky job of snapping the leaves off the artichokes, and the even…
Onion Goat Cheese Tart Recipe
Delicious, fun and easy!
A dairy take on the rustic French Tarte a l'oignon. Will work perfectly with gluten-free flour. Get the good goat cheese, the one in the log.
Baked Salmon in Basil Tomato Sauce Recipe
This baked salmon is one of the best salmon dishes you will ever taste.
Two simple secrets to perfect baked salmon:
The first is hardly a secret by now, but I can’t emphasize it enough: do not cook a second longer than instructed. The second:…
Brisket in Coffee Bourbon Sauce Recipe
Brisket in Coffee Bourbon Sauce
Another winner (scroll down for my original brisket).
My brisket Bechor is my famous Brisket in Sweet and Sour Sauce. A classic! You will get no end of fabulous Seder Dishes ideas in my big Seder Menu…
Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Meringues Recipe
Coconut Meringues: Chocolate-dipped!
This is serious delicious trouble!
Kids, please: Don't let's get into a turf war with the distinguished and wonderful French Macarons, or with the somewhat less distinguished and ubiquitous canned Passover…
Artichokes and Carrots in Lemon Sauce Recipe
Artichokes are a Sephardi favorite.
In Morocco they are a staple, and I remember a variety I haven’t seen anywhere else: tiny, with pointed leaves as sharp as thorns, which we used to eat by the dozen at the end of a meal as dessert, much…