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Corn Salsa with Apple and Jicama Recipe

Corn salsa? What just happened to salsa as we know it? You know, tomato Salsa? Once in a while, give tomatoes a day off and explore other exciting salsa recipes! This is one of several Corn Salsa recipes I have developed, and is particularly…
Shoulder Lamb Chops
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Lamb Chops in Wine Mustard Sauce Recipe.

Lamb Chops on a Stovetop There’s nothing we Sephardis don’t do with lamb: burgers, soup, stew The flavor is so intense, a little goes a long way. Just a pound or so will flavor a whole pot full of soup. Now that's a departure…
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Maple Halva Mousse with Pistachios Recipe. Gluten-Free

Halva Mousse This is one of my own Halva Addiction Solutions! Like many of us halva lovers, I dread the amount of sugar contained in the commercial treat. But the good news is (halva lovers are you listening? I'm talking to you!) it is…
Lemon Coconut Mousse
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Lemon Coconut Mousse. Pie Variation

Lemon Coconut Mousse: Another treat born of good flavor matchmaking! You just need to be a lemon lover, and a coconut lover. Sounds good to me! Lemon Coconut Mousse is gluten-free too boot! In my catering days I have used unflavored kosher…
pickled beets
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Quick Pickled Beets Recipe

Pickled beets: You will eat your beets more often! It is unfortunate that in America, beets invariably conjure up loaded remarks about, uhmmm, never mind . . . I am always looking for ways to sneak beets in: I include them in places where…
Chicken Dried Fruit
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Rice Dried Fruit Chicken Tajine Recipe

Rice Chicken Dried Fruit Tajine This dish gloriously showcases our Moroccan Cuisine. Sephardis are great fans of dried fruit in their dishes. This wonderful Rice Dry Fruit Chicken Tajine will easily explain why. Here's one more! You…
kumquat
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Kumquat Recipes: Salsa, Meat Sauce and More

Kumquat growing in your backyard? This is the lovely sight we were treated to recently. We were invited at a Shabbos lunch in Jerusalem, and our hosts had a kumquat tree brimming with beautiful and fragrant fruit growing in their backyard.…
hot chocolate
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Hot Chocolate Recipe with all Variations

Hot chocolate: Couldn't live without it! I don't wait for a reason to have a cup of hot chocolate. It is the perfect comfort food on a cold rainy day, but it will do just great any other day as well, thank you very much! A friend recently…
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Hot Pepper Jelly Recipe. With Berry Variation

Did you say Hot Pepper Jelly? Huh? Hot jam? What's wrong with these people? What next? Seriously: Hot Pepper Jelly is fabulous! This jam lover experiments with absolutely all jam and preserves possibilities. This recipe is the result of endless…
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Latkas Worldwide Recipes!

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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,…
dried fruit compote
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Dried Fruit Compote Recipe. Cooking with Mahia

Dried Fruit Compote: made with the wonderful Mahia by Nahmias et Fils Enjoy other recipes I developed using the Mahia The dried fruit has so much natural sweetness you don’t need any other sweetener. The Earl Grey tea is very easy to…