Bourbon Pecan Apple Cake Recipe
Apple Cake
Mine is excerpted from my latest Cookbook, The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen.
The combination of the apples, bourbon, and pecans is a classic. Spicy, fragrant and delicious
Mix this cake by hand in minutes. There’s no need…
Key Lime Pie Recipe. Vegan. Gluten-Free-Friendly.
Key Lime Pie
It’s a sort of citrus-lover dream. Non citrus lovers need not apply, OK? All others, enjoy it, and enjoy my lemon curd and my lemon bars too!
But it has a few less-than-ideal trademarks I was forever dancing around until…
Chocolate Hazelnut Dacquoise Recipe
Dacquoise is that dreamy French classic!
It is made up of alternating layers of meringue and fillings. I have made the fillings much lighter, healthier and much simpler to make, but no less delicious, with the help of my staunch ally tofu:…
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…
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…