
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…

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,…

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,…

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 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 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 Recipe. Chocolate Peanut Butter
Ice Cream Cake
Ice cream cake. To me this is the stuff of dreams.
I made this fantastic ice cream cake for my niece Chana's Sheva Brachot this week. I had plotted the layers the flavors the textures the this the that over and over, taking…

Lemon Cake Recipe. Dairy
Lemon Cake
This lemon cake is perfect for brunch, and for dessert after any dairy meal, with fruit or sorbet. Needless to say, Non-Lemon-Lovers need not apply! The baked lemon cake gets soaked all over with a luscious lemon syrup. You are…

Lasagna with Roasted Vegetable Recipe. GF Friendly
Lasagna
Lasagna is super versatile and gluten-free friendly. The roasted vegetable is only one of the many ways you can enjoy it. It can be made with a great variety of vegetables, variety of fillings (vegetables, tomato sauce, spinach,…

Pasta Tomato Sauce Recipe. All Variations. GF Friendly
Pasta Tomato Sauce
Pasta Tomato Sauce made from scratch: 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…

Eggplant Roulades Recipe. Stuffed Vegetables Variations.
Eggplant Roulades
Eggplant Roulades Great Sephardi dish. We 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…

Cold Avocado Cucumber Soup Recipe
Cold Avocado Cucumber Soup
Avocado cucumber soup is pure seduction. Silky and refreshing, with cool summery bright flavors.
Is chilled and spicy what you are after? OK then, avocado cucumber soup! Nothing to it. Oh, and no cooking whatsoever.…