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.…
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…
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…
Blueberry Cake with Almond Streusel Recipe
Blueberry Cake
You just say the word, and I wax lyrical.
Blueberries can do no wrong! All of my friends who used to summer with us in the mountains think of me fondly each time they make this blueberry cake. I can’t remember how…
Moroccan Lettuce Chickpea Salad Recipe
Lettuce Chickpea Salad is one of my favorites
It is overlaid with Moroccan flavors, bright and fragrant.
To all of you out there always asking how we turn a same old, same old salad into an exciting Sephardi main course:
You can take lettuce…
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…
Hummus Recipe. All Hummus Variations
Hummus comes in pint containers in the supermarket.
Ooooops. Just kidding! But that’s how ubiquitous commercial hummus has become—a marked improvement over many other mediocre commercial offerings, but commercial nonetheless.
But wait…
Tilapia Fillets with Tomatoes Lemon Sauce Recipe. All Variations
I love tilapia fillets: versatile, widely available and inexpensive.
I always use the large tilapia fillets, (7 to 9 ounces): they never let me down or go to pieces on me during the cooking process, and they are much more presentable than…
Indian Red Lentil Soup Recipe
Red lentil soup is magic:
Red lentils everything is magic, not just red lentil soup: They are cute, playful looking and brightly colored, they cook in no time, and they are incredibly versatile!
Have you try to make Hummus with red lentils?
That's…
Lentil Soup (Harira) Recipe. All Variations
Lentil Soup
I believe I couldn't live without it.
I love lentils, in any shape or form. This Moroccan Lentil Soup, and my Indian Red Lentil Soup, are among my favorite. This one is overlaid with our beloved Moroccan flavors. It is Gluten-free…
Moroccan Beef Date Tajine Recipe
Beef Date Tajine
Enough to make your tongue smile! But that's not all: I mean fresh dates here!
On a recent visit to Israel, I found fresh dates at the Shuk in Jerusalem. Of course I knew they would come to our New York Markets soon,…