
Vichyssoise Recipe. My Version of Julia Child’s
Vichyssoise is getting on the road!
Please do not find me sacrilegious if I start off with an inspiration from Julia Child's wonderful classic, Vichyssoise, and take it on some less-traveled road. Who knows, you might even welcome my making…

Salade Niçoise Recipe. Honoring Julia Child
Salade Niçoise
In Honor of Julia Child JC100 Anniversary:
Salade Niçoise is one of my all-time favorite salads, especially when made with fresh, not canned, tuna.
I was honored to write a review of Julia Child's biography, Dearie,…

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries Recipe
Chocolate Dipped Strawberries is hardly a recipe:
Just a wonderful gift from yourself to yourself and a few dear friends, deliverable at the drop of a hat.
Luxurious, and gluten-free without even trying.
Everyone loves chocolate dipped…

Cheese Babka Recipe. Optional Topping
Cheese babka like this one?
You won't find it in any commercial bakery, let me tell you flat out. In this cheese babka, the ricotta filling is wonderful, but you might prefer to use it in combination with farmer cheese and/ or cream cheese,…

Turnip Cakes with Dipping Sauce and Wasabi Oil Recipe
Turnip cakes are pure hipster food.
What a pity we can't find them in Kosher Sushi Restaurants! they are so much fun: Turnip Cakes are a Chinese Dim Sum dish made of shredded turnip and radish and rice flour.
Turnip cakes are steamed, then…

Chocolate Truffles Recipe. All Variations
Chocolate Truffles
They are nothing but troublesome have around (of course you already knew that!) but they are a snap to make. Plus vegan, luxurious, luscious.
I am including all variations. The raspberry truffles are gorgeous. I would…

Mixed Greens with Curried Mango Dressing Recipe
My mango dressing is bright and spicy!
It is delightful not only over greens, but also with fish or chicken, grilled or poached. The pungent curry is a wonderful foil for the fruity and tart mango.
Use only as much mango dressing as will…

Cholent Jazzed up: Chestnut Mushroom Soup Recipe
Chestnut Mushroom Soup sounds a lot more refined than cholent, doesn't it?
And yet, that's pretty much all it is!
This shabbos looked like it was going to be another unseasonably chilly day, soup weather. And I had several non-meat eaters…

Zuppa Inglese Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Zuppa Inglese is not a soup at all
Rather, it is an affectionate take on what Italians see as a favorite British dessert, closely related to trifle.
The traditional Zuppa Inglese uses cream and eggs.
As always with desserts known as containing…

Beef in Black Currant Sauce Recipe
Black currant sauce, with chocolate. Wow! Outrageous!
Sorry I can't contain myself!
Is this combo even safe, you might wonder?
It is much better than safe: It's wonderful! The chocolate, cassis (a Black Currant Liquor, available at all…

Fish in Tehina Sauce Recipe
This fish in tehina sauce is a delicious and ridiculously easy
It is a very good illustration of everything I promise in the Pantry Chapter of my new cookbook, The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen. Glorious Meals Pure and Simple:
A Good Pantry:…

Moroccan Almond Cookies Recipe. Ghriba. Vegan.
Almond Cookies
We Moroccans love anything made with almonds, whether in cooking or baking. These crescent-shaped almond cookies are a great Moroccan favorite, called ghriba. Consider them theMoroccan cousins of shortbread cookies.
Traditionally…