My Cookbook is Now on Amazon!
In the madness of moving homes in Los Angeles, I didn’t have the time or brain capacity to post and celebrate the publication of the hardcover edition of my salad cookbook, Salad Ballads. Yes, I moved…
My Latest Posts
Easy One-Bowl Banana Bread
This is not my typical banana bread. This is my pleasing banana bread which I make for my family. My family isn’t as enthusiastic about the cakes I make with olive oil, spelt, coconut sugar.…
Quick Cabbage Frittata
Believe it or not, we are moving once again. Not far though. To the other side of the hill. To the center of Los Angeles. To the same townhouse we lived in when the kids…
Vipassana Sunflower Seed Dressing
I arrived at the Dhamma Vipassana center in North Fork on Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 at 4 PM. My husband drove me there with his mother in the front and my youngest next to me…
Self-Sabotaging Blueberry Cake
What would you have made for 16 teenagers for lunch? I’ll tell you what the other parents made or bought for the robotics team: pizza, Chinese food, pizza, turkey wraps, burgers, tacos, and pasta. I…
Buckwheat, Brussel Sprouts & Leek
I’m not the kind of cook or food blogger that plan meals. I wish I was. Or maybe not. I like being an improvisor. Even when I cook holidays meals I decide what to cook…
Thoughtful Holiday Gift Guide
I don’t like shopping or going on gift-finding missions. I prefer to make gifts—date toffees, delicate anise cookies, handcrafted chocolate bars—or get them when I stumble upon something I know the receiver would love or…
Zucchini stuffed With White Beans
How do you feel about AI? As a content creator, I don’t use it as much as I could. I mainly use it for proofreading, including this post. For someone whose English is a second…
Eggplant Stew in 1 Hour or Less
Another childhood Moroccan dish that I modified a little bit and turned vegan—my mother and grandmother used to make it with chicken legs or stew beef meat. When I was a little kid that was…
Dates With Destiny
As a kid in Israel, whenever I spotted a palm tree with clusters of yellow dates, I would run to it and look at the ground for fallen fruits. I would look for the ones…
Lotus Root Stir-Fry
My life is better now in many ways, but it isn’t as adventurous and exciting as it used to be when I was in my twenties or thirties, or like the lives of all those…
Simple Pumpkin Lentil Soup
Yesterday, I accidentally stumbled upon a diary entry from exactly a year ago. It’s in Hebrew, so I translated it for you: Sunday, October 8, 23 (in London at Ruby’s) The situation in Israel is…