Red Lentil Soup with Kale

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.…

Quick Pickled-Vegetables Salad

  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…

Bread Baking Class in Los Angeles

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…

The Most Simple Carrot Salad

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…

Choppe Salad With Croutons

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…

DIY Parsley Salt

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…

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 is a valuable skill that…

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 it to your Angelenos friends…

Olive Oil & Anise Cookies

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…

Plant-based Creamy Chana Masala 

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…