Kasha with onions and mushrooms
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Kasha with Onions and Mushrooms Recipe. Gluten-Free

Kasha with Onions and Mushrooms Kasha, onions, mushrooms: Perfect expat Jewish food. Mine is a super modern and healthy take on an Old World Classic. Not Love at First Bite Good Sephardi that I am, it took me quite some time to love the…
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Moroccan Tomato Salad Recipe. Salsa Variation

Moroccan Tomato Salad is a staple in our diet. We Moroccans cook tomatoes, sun-dry tomatoes, pickle tomatoes, candy tomatoes, we prepare tomatoes in every way possible. Moroccan Tomato Salad is our answer to Salsa. In Mediterranean climates,…
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Tuna Tartare Recipe. Salmon Variation

Tuna Tartare You will cause quite a sensation with this presentation! These tiny sushi spoons look quite dramatic, and are easy to find online. The term “tartare” is used loosely here. It only suggests that the fish is not cooked,…
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe. Gluten-Free Adaptable

Chocolate and peanut butter: A marriage made in cookie heaven! These are so much fun, cracked all over and forming dark ridges on the white-dusted tops: hide them well! Dear Gluten-Free Friends, boy you'll be happy to know these are every…
Oatmeal cookies
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Oatmeal Cookies Recipe with All the Fixin’s!

Oatmeal Cookies My all-time favorite! I am obsessed with oats, and jump on every chance to use them, both in sweet and savory recipes. Take a look at my steel-cut oat soup, and at my Oats Pots de Creme, to take but two glowing examples. This…
mustard greens
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Mustard Greens Braised in Beer Recipe

Braised mustard greens are a great side dish, hot or at room temperature. You will love the pungent flavor and funky look of this dish. Mustard greens are so good for you, and there's so much I like to use them in: Raw in salads,  juiced,…
Ice cream cake
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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.…
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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…
pasta tomato sauce
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Pasta Tomato Sauce Recipe. All Variations

Pasta Tomato Sauce There’s nothing more delicious than homemade. Homemade pasta tomato sauce is much easier than you think, and much superior to its commercial counterpart. And so versatile: whatever you might like to throw in will…
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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…
avocado cucumber soup
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Cold Avocado Cucumber Soup Recipe

 Avocado cucumber soup: pure seduction! Is chilled and spicy what you are after? OK then, avocado cucumber soup! Nothing to it. Oh, and no cooking whatsoever. Perfect for those days when it is too hot to turn on your oven or to enjoy after…