
Beef Stew with Mushrooms Recipe
Beef Stew
I love to use beef cheeks for this beef stew. Sounds weird, doesn't it?
For the sake of this dish and many others I love to use cheeks for, I spent hours picking some fellow bloggers' brains, about how to rename beef cheeks.…

Cornmeal-Crusted Tilapia Fillets with Cocktail Sauce Recipe
Tilapia might suffer from mild neglect in the States.
It is so underrated! I suspect one of the reasons is because tilapia raised in China gets a reputation for being farmed quite recklessly, and in less than sanitary conditions.…

Chocolate Chestnut Cake Recipe. GF Friendly
Chocolate Chestnut Cake
What's not to love? My favorite flavors are all grouped in one great treat: Chocolate, chestnuts, coconut! This cake is nice and rich and luxurious, yes, but a small serving is all you need.
I…

Noodle Kugel with Apples Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Noodle Kugel
This is one huge favorite in Eastern European Jewish Cooking. This Moroccan Cook has adopted it wholeheartedly.
Alas, it can often err on the rich and eggy side, and so we tend to recoil from it except for a splurge. I have…

Moroccan Minted Carrot Salad Recipe
Carrot salad with mint and sweet spices!
Is so good, so fragrant and so pretty it could almost double as dessert. Not your same old carrot salad, that I can tell you!
The magic of Moroccan ingredients:
Dates, mint, orange flower water: Yum!…

Apple Kale Muffins Recipe. All Variations
Kale Muffins for Dessert?
Did I just say this? Am I losing it or something? Nonono! Repeat: Kale muffins for dessert! My last (this) tinkering was a triumph! Seriously, think about it: Carrot cake, pumpkin cake, sweet potato cookies, rice…

Kale Chips Recipe. All Variations
Kale chips are very easy to make in your own kitchen!
Since I understood how simple and delicious homemade kale chips are, I am totally liberated from their severely narcissistically high-priced commercial counterparts: Nothing to it, and so…

Walnut Blondies Recipe. CCC Redux
Blondies: Are they, like bleached brownies?
Consider blondies the love child of brownies and chocolate chip cookies. I ask you: What's not to love about that?
A couple weeks ago, I was baking chocolate chip cookies with kids in summer camp.…

Georgian Satsivi Recipe
Satsivi is a delightful Georgian Classic.
Satsivi is a cold chicken dish steeped in a rich walnut sauce. Walnuts are a staple of Georgian cooking, you will find them not just in Satsivi but in quite a few Georgian dishes.
Satsivi is richer…

Coconut Cinnamon Flan Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Flan is the Sunday treat of my childhood.
My mother made the greatest flan and was my inspiration for this version. I tinkered with a dessert that would be a nutritionally ... hmm not exactly lean, but much more affordable and no less delicious…

Meatless Dinners. Four Wonderful Complete Menus
Meatless Dinners
They are no hardship whatsoever to me. And this holds for the Nine Days as well as year around.

Sesame Cookies Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Sesame Cookies
Here’s a great Sephardi cookie favorite for you! It’s the perfect Moroccan, and in general Sephardi, flavor trio: chickpeas, sesame and anise. Check out their equally delicious cousins, Sesame Tehina Cookies
These…