Recipes
Chicken Breasts with Chipotle Mock Cream Sauce. Gluten-Free
I can make a delicious and dairy-free mock cream sauce in meat dishes by stirring in a good quality plain soy or coconut yogurt: Yes: Kosher food has moved up in the world, just the way I like it: Natural! Chipotles are smoked red peppers,…
Salsa Verde Over Tilapia Fillets Recipe
Salsa Verde Over Tilapia Fillets: Ready in a jiffy.
It has just enough kick to satisfy a spicy food lover without being overpowering. If you want something that really tests the spicy limits check out my Charif recipe.
The pairing of tilapia…
My Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
My Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe is in all my cookbooks.
I can never make enough of these; and apparently, neither can thousands and thousands of people. You would think I would get tired of them. Absolutely not!
Besides…
Oat Quinoa Chili Recipe. Gluten-Free
Oat Quinoa chili is the answer, when beans don't agree with you.
For all of us whose love of beans remains, alas, unrequited, let me say you can make a perfect chili substituting oat, quinoa and rice in any proportion for the feisty beans,…
Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Torte Recipe
Mousse Torte: I can't remember how many I made for parties.
And at Levana Restaurant, we were never one day without chocolate hazelnut mousse torte.
A few years ago, a couple whose wedding I was catering wanted this very cake, but luxuriously…
Crockpot Recipes: Plug it and Forget it
Crockpot recipes:
I am often asked if I intend to write a cookbook on the immensely popular subject.
No I don't - it's not necessary: there's no end of crockpot recipes and cookbooks out there.
But I do intend to point out what a wonderful…
Tempeh Beer-Braised Mushroom Stew Recipe
I am afraid tempeh looks as uninspiring as it sounds.
But if you do go past its appearance and unromantic name, you are in for a real treat. Tempeh is made from cooked and slightly fermented soybeans and compressed into patties; it is then…
Pumpkin Cranberry Cake Recipe
Pumpkin Cranberry Cake
Cranberry tart, Cranberry vinegar, Cranberry everything: there’s no cranberry food I dont adore. When fresh cranberries pile up, right around now, on produce stalls, I pounce on them.
The perfect Thanksgiving…
Apple Latkas Recipe. Gluten-Free
Apple latkas are one of my favorite desserts!
Apple latkas is a rustic French dessert treat we indulge in on Chanukkah and beyond. Strictly for apple lovers like me, and you I hope. Want to see see how many goodies I make with apples, from…
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Purim: Edible Gifts
Mustard caraway bread
London broil with Moroccan dry rub
Homemade granola
Mixed greens with cranberry vinegar dressing
Roast salmon with olive tomato dip
Coconut sorbet with caramel sauce
Orange curd
The Lean Latin Feast
Tilapia with green tomato sauce
Spicy pumpkin corn soup
Chicken breasts with chipotle sauce
Cabbage, cucumber and jicama salad with “yogurt” cilantro sauce
Café con leche pots de crème
Sangria
Low Budget Entertaining
Turkey chili
Spicy bean salad
Cabbage, apple and cucumber salad
Moroccan potato omelet
Carrot cake