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…
My Latest Posts
Gluten-Free Turkish-Style Sesame Bagels (Simit)
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.…
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…
Spanish Sesame Cookies
These Spanish cookies (tortas de aceite y anís) are the delicate sisters of my grandmother’s anise cookies. They taste very similar, but the Iberian cookies are flaky and dissolve in the mouth. Whereas the Moroccan…
Easy Cashew-Based Cheese
My recipe video of this cashew cheese is my most popular video on Instagram. I am not sure how it became viral. I’m assuming someone with large following, liked that that the recipe is extremely…
Easy Upside-Down Cabbage Bread
It’s been a while since I posted anything. As some of you know – from my Instagram stories – we moved, again. This time not too far though. To a close-by neighborhood that has a…
Creamy Chana Masala (Vegan)
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…
Basic & Easy Gluten-Free Bread
Whenever the neurotic mom passes by a bakery that sells good sourdough bread, like Gjusta in Venice Beach, she buys one or two boules for her family. She can eat gluten, though it might give…
Frozen Garlic Ginger Cubes
Teenage-boy craves Indian curries every day. His mom loves Indian food but hates peeling and grating ginger and garlic. Sometimes she asks teenage-boy to do it for her or cook for them. He is usually…
Vegan Chocolate Bar Topped With Granola
Vegan boy complains that there’s nothing sweet in the house. He threatens to go to CVS to buy candy. Neurotic mom says “Wait! Don’t go, I’ll make something”. Quickly she melts a bar of Trader’s…
Roasted Cauliflower Over Vegan Yogurt
Summer, you’re hot, toasty, sweaty, smelly, exhausting, Yet, I miss you in the winter and welcome you with open arms in the spring. You and this refreshing and light cauliflower dish. This recipe works also…
Multi-Seeds Crackers With Seaweed
Some rigid on instagram got uncomfortable when I called a non-dairy cheese cheese. Well a) what am I supposed to call it? Bob? and b) who cares what we call it? c) I get uncomfortable…