
Moroccan Beef-Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Orange Sauce
This Moroccan favorite is a wonderful way to cook Chicken Breasts.
Cooking the chicken Breasts on a stovetop makes them ideally moist and tender. These chicken breasts are elegant enough even for a very festive occasion. This is a perfect…

Baklava Recipe. Fillo Tips
Baklava
Although it likely originated in Greece or Turkey, all Mediterranean cultures have adopted it and tweaked it to their own tastes.
Baklava is a Mediterranean confection that sounds really decadent, loaded as it is with honey and…

Chicken Tajine with Swiss Chard and Fennel Recipe
Chicken Tajine
The wonderful thing about Moroccan Cooking and all tajines is, there's never any talk about side dishes. It's all aboard in a pot! We cook everything together. So it is no wonder we eat our veggies. The results are a fabulous…

Moroccan Mixed Olive Salad Recipe
Olive Salad
That's right: Not Salad with Olives, but olive salad.
We Moroccans grew up eating olives at every meal, not only in salads but cooked with our dishes. Nothing as delicious as olives in tajines In this dish, they ARE the salad.
I…

Crockpot Turkey Thighs and Wild Rice Cholent Recipe
Crockpot Turkey Thighs
is the best
You end up with pulled turkey, fabulous, economical and incredibly easy. I gamely share the credit with two brands that devote their expertize to wrapping food in bags. I will explain, keep reading.
Crockpot…

Moroccan Almond Fillo Pastries Recipe
Fillo Pastries
They are a staple in our Moroccan Pastry repertoire.
There is no Moroccan Dessert display without fillo pastries, first cousins of Baklava. Although I am showcasing the glorious almond in the filling of these Fillo Pastries,…

Large Batch Spelt No Knead Challah Recipe. All Variations
No knead Challah I have been endlessly tinkering with.
Ever since I had the good fortune of coming across Zoe François and Dr Jeff Hertzberg's latest beautiful book, The New Artisan Bread in 5 minutes a day, I have been baking bread more…

Moroccan Sweet Potato Tajine Recipe
Sweet potato lovers, we are talking about you!
This Tajine is a wonderful way to expand on your sweet potato repertoire.
We don't often think of contrasting sweet potatoes with bold assertive ingredients:
Olives, preserved lemon and cilantro:…

Potato Pie Recipe. Chicken Variation
Moroccan Potato Pie
This is a great favorite in our Moroccan cuisine. This rustic dish (called Amhammar in Arabic) is a good example of how we make something rich (eggs) or starchy (potatoes) go a long way. Consider it an eggy cousin of…

Swiss Chard Salad with Carrots Recipe
Swiss Chard Salad
One of our favorite Moroccan salads. Colorful, cooked and spicy!
The added carrots are a wonderful match, and brighten up the whole salad!
See why we eat our veggies in Morocco? That it is super healthy goes without…

Artichoke Fava Bean Tajine Recipe
Artichoke Fava Bean Tajine
Artichoke Fava Bean Tajine. Lima beans (or fava beans) herald the arrival of spring. Cooked together with artichokes, this tajine stars a flavor match made in heaven.
Artichoke and Fava Beans!
They are two huge…

Salmon Tajine in Mustard Caper Sauce Recipe.
Salmon Tajine in Mustard Caper Sauce is one of my favorite salmon dishes:
It is so simple, so zippy and so delicious.
We Sephardis are suckers for Mustard-Caper-Lemon Trinity.
Here is just about all you need to know when you make salmon…