chocolate chestnut cake
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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…
apple noodle kugel
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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…
carrot salad
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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!…
Kale muffins
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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
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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…
Blondies
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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.…
satsivi
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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…
A cake with white frosting and caramel on top.
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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
sesame cookies
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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…
Fennel Orange Salad
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Fennel Orange Salad Recipe

Fennel Orange Salad   Fennel Orange Salad This is a classical and delightful Moroccan dish. Orange, radish and Fennel go incredibly well together! all three flavors play off one another beautifully. It will make you love Fennel…
Apricot Tart
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Custard Apricot Tart Recipe. All Stone Fruit Variations

Apricot Tart: I've got just the thing for you! That is, if you are, as I am, crazy about all stone fruit! This is a delicious way to celebrate summer bounty, and fruit desserts are simple and wholesome, and make the whole house smell like flowers…