Salmon Pomegranate Sauce
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Salmon Pomegranate Sauce Recipe

Salmon Pomegranate Sauce Salmon Pomegranate Sauce. Sweet-and-sour combinations are a great Sephardi favorite, and work beautifully with this salmon dish. The onions caramelize and play off the vinegar. Another quick and delicious…
brussels sprouts
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Brussels Sprouts Tomato Sauce Recipe. Pasta Adaptation

Brussels sprouts, zucchini and tomatoes: Mediterranean flavors at their best! Brussels Sprouts dishes are a frequent Passover and year-round treat at my table. I find Brussels sprouts somewhat underrated and underused in our country. They…
Couscous
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Couscous Recipe. Meat, Poultry and All Variations

 Couscous   Couscous is the rock star of Moroccan cuisine. The pride and joy of our Moroccan Cuisine. It is as wonderful and fun as it is nutritious. The one pictured above is complete: veggies, chickpeas, chicken, dried fruit,…
steel-cut oats
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Moroccan Steel Cut Oat Soup (Lahshou) Recipe

Steel-Cut Oat Soup This is a most unusual combination of flavors, and it works beautifully. I have no doubt the funky Arabic name (Lahshou) will bring a smile to quite a few cyber-friends out there! When we were children, we were often…
Golden sesame crackers piled in orange bowl
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Anise and Sesame Galettes Recipe

Galettes: My sister Lea's are the best Even my mother agrees! And that is saying a lot. Galettes are a staple at my house in Morocco, and still are at my mother's house, where all children clamor for them, calling them Maman Biscuit (they…
Colorful roasted vegetable medley with fresh basil
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Ratatouille Recipe. Moroccan Adaptation (Zaalouk) Included

Ratatouille Ratatouille is not just the delightful movie! I don't think Julia Child would object to a little tweaking of the French Classic Ratatouille, taken in a Moroccan direction. Besides, all things Eggplant are a huge favorite in…
A close up of two baskets with food
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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…
grape leaves
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Herb-Roasted Trout in Grape Leaves Recipe

Herb-Roasted Trout in Grape Leaves Grape leaves are delightful, not only for stuffing but for wrapping fish or chicken, leaving you with a moist and fragrant dish. This dish is overlaid with my favorite Moroccan flavors. I love to serve this…
coconut meringues
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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
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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…
sweet vermicelli
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Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli is comfort food at its best and easiest. And healthiest: In Morocco we grew up on this kind of dessert my mother, an ingenious cook if I ever met one, used to whip  up at the drop of a hat, for children big and small.…
Hand carving golden roasted whole chicken
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Roast Chicken Recipes Including BBQ Chicken

Roast Chicken Lovers out There   Show of hands! Yeah. Thought so. Falling like flies. My buddies. Mmmm, Seriously. On top of my list of favorite dinners. It is a very simple attainable way to treat yourself to a festive dinner,…