
Tiramisu Recipe. Dairy-Free or Dairy
Tiramisu
That’s affectionate Italian for “pick-me-up”
That's probably because tiramisu puts together three of our favorite intense robust flavors: rum, chocolate and coffee (please don’t try to substitute anything else for any…

Carrot Cake: Our Award Winning Recipe
Carrot Cake: Our Award Winning Recipe!
Me, my sister Lea and my husband Maurice. Circa 1979, selling our famous carrot cake at a Central Park Fair. We sliced until we dropped.
Our Post-Woodstock Pre-Chassidic days. You like? I remember…

Polenta Casserole au Gratin Recipe. GF
Polenta Casserole
polenta casserole is perfect for the days you give pasta a day of. Hearty, nourishing and fun. And Gluten-feee to boot!
For this and and all other polenta dishes, please ignore those insipid cooked polenta rolls you…

Tuna Burgers Recipe. All garnishes
The star of yesterday's shabbos lunch was these delicious tuna burgers, which I served with my famous Apricot Chutney.
What I love about tuna burgers is, you can eat them at any temperature, without running the risk of having some congealed…

Vegetarian Stuffed Artichoke Bottoms Recipe. Fish and Meat Variations
Artichokes: A great Sephardi favorite
We grew up in Morocco eating them in every shape and form, even for dessert. Someone in the food industry, bless him, has done all the pesky job of snapping the leaves off the artichokes, and the even…

Baked Salmon in Basil Tomato Sauce Recipe
This baked salmon is one of the best salmon dishes you will ever taste.
Two simple secrets to perfect baked salmon:
The first is hardly a secret by now, but I can’t emphasize it enough: do not cook a second longer than instructed. The second:…

Brisket in Coffee Bourbon Sauce Recipe
Brisket in Coffee Bourbon Sauce
Another winner (scroll down for my original brisket).
My brisket Bechor is my famous Brisket in Sweet and Sour Sauce. A classic! You will get no end of fabulous Seder Dishes ideas in my big Seder Menu…

Artichokes and Carrots in Lemon Sauce Recipe
Artichokes are a Sephardi favorite.
In Morocco they are a staple, and I remember a variety I haven’t seen anywhere else: tiny, with pointed leaves as sharp as thorns, which we used to eat by the dozen at the end of a meal as dessert, much…

Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli is comfort food at its best and easiest.
And healthiest: In Morocco we grew up on this kind of dessert my mother, an ingenious cook if I ever met one, used to whip up at the drop of a hat, for children big and small.…

Maple Roasted Salmon Recipe
Maple Roasted Salmon
Maple Roasted Salmon. I can't tell you how many people make my recipe. The short and dazzling Asian flavor lineup in this roasted salmon dish does its magic with practically no work. No problem doubling the roasted…

Raspberry Vinegar Recipe. Cranberry Variation
Raspberry Vinegar:
You will make about 2 quarts in minutes, at a fraction of the price of store-bought. Knock off your friends' socks, and bring them a pint on Purim and anytime. And this is why I love love love a nice large recipe of condiments:…

Apricot Chutney Recipe
No store-bought apricot chutney comes close to homemade!
This is true of all chutneys. Still looking for a fabulous homemade Mishloach Manot treat, one that will last until Passover and beyond? Apricot Chutney!
Chutneys, from the…
