Collard Greens With Paprika Oil
It’s much easier to stick a tray of chicken and potatoes into the oven or throw a bunch of vegetables and beans into pot than to prepare a bunch of mezzes. But a table covered with small and colorful plates…
Lunchbox salad Kids Love
Here is the most demanded salad among the children in my family, Saba Zion’s Salad. “Saba” means grandfather in Hebrew. My father is a humble cook but can make shoe laces delicious with his seasoning skills. He made us and his…
Toast with avocado
Recently I discovered that not only I can cook I can also draw. It’s so fun and relaxing. I wish I had more time for my new hobby. Anyway, it was very flattering and exciting to discover that other people beside my…
Mango tango illustration!
My illustrated recipe is now on They Draw and Cook.
Addictive Anise & Sesame Cookies
Alex: what are you making mommy?Me: I’m making Moroccan anise cookies.Alex: can you make American cookies?Me: no, I’m craving mama’s cookies.Oh mama mama, I miss you. Mama is my maternal grandmother. She used to make a huge container of these Reifat…
Middle Eastern Pizza
My mother makes the best pizza. She is not even Italian. Her pizza has Middle Eastern flavors. Instead of using tomato sauce she uses fresh sliced tomatoes (the beefy kind, such as Roma). After she covers the dough with tomatoes and mozzarella, she…
Bruschetta
It’s strange to cook for one when you used to cook for two, four, or more. This week I am home alone. Hallelujah! My husband is in New York and the boys are in school. I was content eating my…
Fennel, Radish and Nectarine Salad
I can’t bring myself to cook with fire. It’s boiling outside and inside (we don’t have AC, most of the time the weather here in SoCal is perfect). Our meals these days are mainly raw salads with lots of crunchy…
Authentic Hummus
I always forget how much I love hummus and how easy it is to make until I make it. Here in Los Angeles, unlike in Israel, there are not a lot of hummusiyot, restaurants that sell only hummus. In Tel…
Focaccia
My mother – a bread worshiper – and I agreed that focaccia is the best bread for people like us whose favorite part of the bread is the crust. Focaccia is basically one big crust.
Homemade Bread
There was a single, short period when I completely lost interest in cooking. It was exactly three years ago, when my youngest sister, Inbar, passed away at the age of 27. When she left, my joy of cooking and baking left with her. Like everyone…
Easy & Quick Kale Shakshuka
Kale is very nutritious but I won’t use the word superfood because I’m allergic to it. As much as it is healthy I wouldn’t have eaten it if I didn’t like it’s earthy flavor. Me and the millions of aphids…
Simple Rice Bowl with Spinach, Jalapeño & Radish
Rice bowl is basically a salad on a bed of rice. You can make your rice bowl very basic or extravagant. I like them simple, but for my husband, the more things, the merrier. I can live on rice bowls.…
Potato Frittata With Sweet Potato
This is Jewish Moroccan (Sephardic) version of Tortilla Española. It’s called El-machamer. My mother used to make it all the time. The spinach and sweet potato is my spin on it.
Fruit Salad with Raisins & Rosemary
A while ago, my husband and I went to see a friend’s performance in Echo Park. We discovered that the show starts only at 11pm. So instead we strolled around the neighborhood and stumbled upon a busy vegan cafe. We weren’t…
bread rolls & challahs
As a kid I couldn’t take my eyes away from my mother or grandmother, when they made home-bread for Shabbat. I was hypnotized by Eema and Mama’s swift gestures and from the process itself. For years I assumed that it…
Black Cherry Jammers
I was so happy when she said yes and wrote this post for my blog. Introducing, Yael, the woman who thought me almost everything I know about baking! When Shelly asked me to be a guest at her blog, I…
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever
Once I had a one hour layover in Stuttgart airport that turned into 5 hours. The airline gave us vouchers to buy food, but all they had was pale sausages, sad potatoes, and miserable lettuce. I couldn’t even find nuts…
Simple Moroccan-Style Carrot Salad
This is one of many cooked vegetable dishes, known as ‘salads’ or ‘salatim,’ which my mother prepares every Friday for the Shabbat dinner. It’s actually the second-favorite dish after matbucha in our household. The term ‘salad’ might seem confusing for…
Harissa
Harissa is a Moroccan spicy condiment made with red chile peppers and small hot chili peppers and spices. We eat harissa with braised dishes, sandwiches, soups, salads, couscous, omelets, etc. My husband likes to mix it with ketchup and dip…