Easy & Quick Plant-Based “Brie”
I normally make vegan cheese in a cheesecloth. I didn’t think I could bake it into a cheese wheel. In fact, baking speeds up the process and makes the cheese mold-free, if that’s possible. According…
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Easy Plant-based Fig Ice Cream
There’s a popular ice cream shop in our neighborhood that makes exquisite dairy ice cream but their vegan ice cream shouldn’t exist. The flavors are fine but the texture, the poor texture, is so flat.…
Vegan Burek (Balkan-Style Pastry)
I have a weakness for stuffed pastries, especially Balkan and Turkish savory pastries such as burek and burekas. While they can be easily made with store-bought filo or puff pastry, I prefer to stay away…
Plant-Based Meal in One Hour
What if I started posting videos and pictures of our meals with short descriptions to give you ideas and inspiration? This way, we can spend less time in front of a screen. I will only…
Sautéed Beet Leaves With Eggs
Throwing away the beet tops is like tossing a gorgeous strand of human hair instead of donating it. Such a weird analogy but that was the only thing that came to mind. It’s a shame…
Tapioca Pudding with Pureed Loquat
Stop and pick the loquats (shesek, nispero, biwa). Those mother-clusters of oval, orange fruits you see everywhere during may and June are edible indeed. If you pick them, make sure to select only the very…
Breaking Bread Class
Hi everyone! I will be teaching a class next month at Los Angeles Valley College. If you live in Los Angeles, please join us. It’s going to be a fun and important class. Baking bread…
Cooking Class In Los Angeles
Hi everyone, Next month I will be teaching a cooking class – “How to cook simple, delicious and nutritious meals” – at Los Angeles Valley College. If you’re from Los Angeles please join or forward…
Easy-to-Make Turkish-Style Sesame Bagels (Gluten-Free)
I asked Kobi (that’s what I call it), the AI, to write a blog post about these Turkish bagels, and this is what it came up with: These gluten-free Turkish sesame bagels, also known as…
Roasted Pumpkin & Candied Pecans
I don’t know how comfortable you are about including non-traditional dishes, like this one, in your Thanksgiving feast. If you are open to it, then you must try this one. It requires only four ingredients…
Anise & Sesame Cookies
These fragrant Spanish cookies, tortas (cakes) de aceite y anís, remind me of my grandmother’s anise biscuits, Reifat. I often wonder about their origin. Did the exiled Jews brought them to Morocco from Spain? Alternatively,…
Easy Cashew “Ricotta”
The recipe video for this cashew cheese is the most popular video on my instagram. I think the reason is that it’s pretty easy to make, and that it doesn’t require many or weird ingredients.…