
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…

Herb-Roasted Trout in Grape Leaves Recipe
Herb-Roasted Trout in Grape Leaves
Grape leaves are delightful, not only for stuffing but for wrapping fish or chicken, leaving you with a moist and fragrant dish. This dish is overlaid with my favorite Moroccan flavors. I love to serve this…

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.…

Moroccan Semolina Soup Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
In my native Morocco this semolina soup is often breakfast.
Semolina soup takes minutes from beginning to end and costs pennies, and it is so satisfying.
I have whipped it up countless times when I needed to round out a meal in a jiffy. You…

Date Power Bars Recipe
Date Power Bars. Homemade
Have you ever taken the time to read the ingredient list in most commercial brands of power bars?
I am sorry to have to say this:
Commercial power bars are not the healthy snacks they are cracked up to be.
By…

Fishballs in Lemon Sauce Recipe. Roasted Salmon Variation
Fishballs Moroccan Style
Fishballs. They are our Moroccan/Sephardi answer to Gefilte Fish, easy, fragrant, zippy and delicious. We Sephardis are suckers for the Mustard-Caper-Lemon Trinity.
No problem using this exact recipe using meat…

Lamb and Pine Nut-Stuffed Grape Leaves Recipe
These stuffed grape leaves are a real treat, and might cure you of all misguided urges you might have to open a can and find a dozen insipid ready-to-eat grape leaves. Instead, spend a few minutes on the preparation of these fabulous gems, and…

Semolina Almond Cake Recipe. Gluten-Free Variation
Semolina Almond Cake
It is a delightful Sephardi/Moroccan dessert classic made from semolina and almonds, and soaked in a lemon syrup. It goes by some other, fun names in Sephardi Kitchens: Basbusa, Tishpishti. The idea is the same in…

Makrod: Semolina Date Pastry Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly
Makrod is a great North African Dessert Classic.
It showcases some of my absolute flavors: semolina, dates and honey. I have always rather neglected this wonderful treat because the traditional preparation requires frying, my nemesis. Frankly,…

Lamb Shanks Tajine with Mushrooms and Artichokes Recipe
Lamb Shanks Tajine
Lamb shanks tajine. Lamb shanks are one of the most ideal cuts of the lamb: Lean, tender, low maintenance, and best of all, very well priced! And I love their rustic, unpretentious look making your homemade dish look....homemade.…

Moroccan Beef Tajine Lemon Oregano Sauce Recipe
Beef Tajine
You wouldn't believe how easy my Moroccan beef tajine is to make. If my latest cookbook is endowed with so many wonderful recipes, you have my daughter Bella to thank almost as well as me: While I was writing this book, she would…
