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Simchat Torah: Zucchini Quiche
Simchat Torah–which starts Monday night– is the end of a long season of holidays and marked by both completing and beginning the reading of the Torah. But, we are not starting over in the same place...
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Shalom Y’all
Grits I recently spent time exploring the Lower South of the US, delving into the emotionally fraught history and legacy of enslavement and civil rights, overlaid with an exploration of Southern Jewish...
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Vegan Tahini Hamantaschen
Vegan tahini hamantaschen Purim Sameach! A quick post to share with you my new hamantaschen recipe-vegan tahini dough filled with pomegranate molasses-tahini-maple syrup-sesame seed mix. These are...
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Covid19 and Italian Corn Bread
Italian corn bread This is a frightening moment. It’s hard to write about recipes and food during this time when I incessantly read the news and my mind is mostly devoid of non-coronavirus thoughts or...
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Finding Order in Disorder & Chocolate Olive Oil Passover Cake
Chocolate Olive Oil Passover Cake I’m still the same as when I last wrote-focused on COVID19 most of the day and trying, like everyone else, to function as best possible. Beyond the obvious irony of...
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Dusseldorf and Date Cake
Date cake While we continue to hunker down at home, the competition to secure flour and yeast has become more challenging perhaps than buying hand sanitizer. I go through waves of intense cooking and...
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Animals, Pandemics, & Shavuot
vegan blintzes with extra filling. Living through a pandemic has become the ultimate opportunity to look at our food sources and the interconnectedness between what we eat and a host of global issues....
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Vegan Sourdough Challah
Bread, a basic, humble food represents so much of what is happening during the pandemic. While some are fortunate to nourish their creativity and yearning for comfort foods by becoming amateur bakers,...
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Covid/Chagim Care Packages
Roasted stone fruit I love hosting people for meals and giving gifts for pretty much any opportunity possible. So, like so much else, this part of my life was upended by COVID, until I was inspired by...
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Roasted Carrots for Rosh Hashana
Rosh Hashana roasted carrots As we prepare to celebrate Rosh Hashana to mark the birth of the world, it’s hard not to be confused and/or overwhelmed at times by the surreal world we are now living in....
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Sukkot: Roasted Apples and Yams with Barberries
Roasted apple and yam with barberries Like everything else, this is an unusual Sukkot. But due to my COVID routine, I have had the privilege for a deeper physical and sensory connection to the...
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Fall Foraging: Mushrooms
I have had the great opportunity to trample through the woods and fields just outside Rock Creek National Park to forage for edible plants, berries, flowers and mushrooms this fall. Foraging aside, I...
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Vegan Malabi with Roasted Fruit
vegan malabi with orange water infused roasted fruit. Malabi is an amazing, delicious Middle Eastern dessert that is popular in Israel. I used to go a little cafe with a few wooden tables near Shouk...
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Malawach and Jachnun
Malawach with date syrup I am late to the party but finally joined the Covid baking club. I’ve got my sourdough starter, a fridge filled with a variety of flours, and a lot of time this winter to bake!...
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Purim Treat: Vegan Orange, Tahini, Olive Oil Cake
Orange, tahini, olive oil vegan cake The best thing I bought during the pandemic was a bright yellow Le Creuset loaf pan. The pan is so versatile and I’ve used it to make bread, cakes, truffles and...
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Very berry charoset
Very Berry Charoset I created this charoset recipe to use one of my favorite flavor combinations, along with many of the dried berries and fruits I love, such as goji berries, barberries, cherries,...
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Spring Foraging for Berries
yogurt, granola and foraged berries While last spring was remarkable because the world had shut down, spring this year is remarkable as parts of the world start to slowly re-emerge. It was a...
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Couscous, preserved lemons, with roasted zucchini and tofu
I love the abundance of zucchinis available in the summer–patty pan, crooked neck, endless shades of yellows and greens. They’re so beautiful and I love the range of delicate flavors of them,...
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Rosh Hashana: Beet Carpaccio
I love this beet carpaccio recipe! I first enjoyed it at a serene Shabbat dinner at my relative’s house during a glorious pre-Covid spring in Jerusalem. The flavors of the roasted beets are enough...
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Break-Fast Berry Tahini Smoothie
Berry Tahini Break-Fast Smoothie This is a quick post to share a really easy, nutritious post-fast dish. Personally, I don’t like to go to “all you can eat” break-fast meals filled with bagels, kugel...
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