
Moroccan Chickpea Soup Recipe. Gluten-Free
Chickpea Soup
Much dreamier than the sum of its modest parts. Nowhere near as plebeian as its ingredients suggests. Especially when you make chickpea soup, as I do, with all our wonderful Moroccan seasonings. The French term for chickpea is…

Parsnips in Moroccan Hot and Sweet Sauce Recipe
Poor parsnips too often serve as crowd actor
And then, ultimate indignity, they get discarded, as in chicken soup. Pfffttt, just like that! Not fair!
But in this delicious dish, parsnips are IT!
You will also love the simplicity of the dish.…

Fig Tart Goat Cheese Recipe
Fig Tart with goat cheese!
Add to this winning pairing rosemary and honey! Rustic, funky and unpretentious elegance.
My Fig tart is easy to make the gluten-free way too:
You could use any flour you like!
No cooking wine or cooking sherry…

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars Recipes. Gluten-Free
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
My chocolate Peanut Butter Bars were originally meant as celebration: I wanted to mark the occasion with a special treat, when my granddaughter Musia was told she was no longer allergic to peanut butter. And…

Pasta Tuna Sauce Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Pasta Tuna Sauce: as funky as it gets!
If it is true that opposites attract, no dish would bear this out better than this Pasta Tuna Sauce with Fennel.
Tuna and Fennel: yum!
Besides, my pasta with tuna sauce is a whole new and fun way…

Lamb Meatballs in Apple Chutney Sauce Recipe
Lamb meatballs are a great ethnic favorite.
I had just made a batch of Apple Tomato Chutney. It just looked too delicious to be used only as a condiment; I went all out and incorporated it in these Indian lamb meatballs. Needless to add,…

Pesto Sauce Recipe. All Variations
Pesto
The great classic wears many exciting hats. It is traditionally based on most often based on basil, olive oil, and toasted walnuts. Be sure to check out my sun-dried tomato pesto as well!
We have seen it pesto recast endlessly…

Teryiaki Sauce Recipe. Suggested Uses
Teryiaki sauce is one of my great favorites.
I live in the vicinity of several Chinese restaurants (who doesn't?). Every morning I watch the mountain of trash at their back door, and it always includes enormous jerry cans of teryiaki sauce:…

Moroccan Eggplant Salad Recipe
Eggplant Salad
Eggplant is a huge favorite in our Sephardi Cooking. We prepare eggplant in dozens of ways, even for dessert! This dish is all roasted, so it is pretty streamlined, and pretty lean. Anything not to have to fry eggplant:…

Moroccan Spicy Nut Truffles Recipe
Nut Truffles
They are for nut lovers only. All others need not apply. Sort of like the famous Pfeffernusse, only Sephardi style. Moroccan, to be exact. They make a perfect gift too.
Move over chocolate, and enjoy your day off: you’re…

Moroccan Spicy Meatballs Tajine Recipe
Spicy Meatballs
Meatballs are our Sephardi answer to hamburgers. You didn’t think we would let ourselves get outdone, did you?
In this dish, chicken livers, chicken breasts and lamb get equal time; the finished dish is above and beyond…

Beer Roasted Turkey Breast Recipe
Turkey Breast
Easy and quick! It's wonderful for those times where we want to enjoy turkey, but without the whole-bird production: Long roasting, boning, slicing, dealing with leftovers etc.
Boneless Turkey Breast to the Rescue!
The following…