While most people feel comforted when their fridge is packed with food, I get restless. I love going to the market and buy lots of fresh produce but over-crowded situations – trains, supermarkets, streets, closets – and fridges, stresses me out.…
I usually don’t promote kitchen ware because I truly believe that we don’t need any particular or fancy gadgets to create unforgettable meals. Unless it’s a life changing Japanese mandoline or knife. Then I need tell everyone I know…
With everything happening in my country, I completely forgot to post about my upcoming bread baking class at Los Angeles Valley College. If you live in Los Angeles or know anyone who lives in LA, please join us or forward…
First, say hi to your new favorite salad. Second, lemon season is around the corner. During the next 10 months, I won’t be buying lemons, I would be picking them from the trees in my neighborhood. I always joke that…
Before I tell you about this easy and refreshing salad I want you to know where I stand about what happened in my country on 10 I was in London visiting friends when the Hamas horrific massacre occurred. I was…
Do you write a journal? I do. I write almost everyday. Why? For different reasons. Partially because I want to leave something behind for my family. Perhaps my offspring would be as curious about their grandmother as I am about…
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 to Claude the AI, most…
There’s a popular ice cream shop in our neighborhood that makes exquisite dairy ice cream but their vegan ice cream is eh. It’s not the flavors, they’re okay, it’s the texture. Sorbet is more rich than that pea protein-made ice…
I loooove all pastries equally, but some of them, I have a particular weakness. Especially those savory stuffed pastries, made with puff pastry or phyllo dough. Any pastry that has the letters “BRK” in the name, like burek and burekas.…
How would you feel about me posting a pictures of our meals with a short description and a video instead of posting a recipe? That way we all spend less time in front of a screen. I will still mention…
Throwing away the beet tops is like tossing a gorgeous strand of human hair instead of donating it. I know weird analogy. It’s a shame not to cook those flavorful Swiss chard-like leaves. Particularly when organic and intact. They are…
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 orange with brown spots, those…
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 is a valuable skill that…
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 it to your Angelenos friends…
These are Turkish sesame bagels, also known as simit, are made with all-purpose flour and yogurt. But I was curious what would happen if I substituted the two with gluten-free flours and vegan yogurt instead. If the recipe is here,…
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 and take about 30 minutes…
These fragrant Spanish cookies, tortas (cakes) de aceite y anís, are addictive. They are the refined and delicate sisters to the more rugged Moroccan anise biscuits, Reifat. While the recipes share the same warm, anise-scented essence, there are a few…
The recipe video for this cashew cheese is my most popular video on Instagram. Not sure why the algorithm made it viral. I am assuming someone with large following shared it because it was easy and required three ingredients.
It’s been a while since I posted anything. As some of you know – from Instagram – we moved again. This time not too far. To a close by neighborhood with a better public high school. I hope we made…
Vegan-boy wants chana masala. Teenage-boy prefers something with Korma sauce. Helicopter-dad doesn’t care. He’ll eat anything. Although he prefers to avoid chickpeas. They make him gussy. Neurotic-mom is up for Indian but not korma. It’s too sweet for her. To…