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Passover: Karpas Salad
Karpas salad This is a really easy, yummy salad filled with lots of karpas or related ingredients. The karpas course of the seder includes a vegetable (often parsley or potatoes) that is symbolic of...
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Rosh Hashana: Black Eyed Peas
I recently read Michael Twitty’s latest fabulous book, Koshersoul, a personal and culinary exploration as a Black Jewish man. Beautifully written with lots of recipes that trace the intersections and...
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Sukkot Couscous & Fall Vegetables
I love Sukkot–eating outside, enjoying fall fruits and vegetables, deepening our connections with nature and agricultural cycles. I recently spent time at an incredible native plants nursery near my...
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Purim: Queen Esther’s Salad
Queen Esther’s Salad You might be wondering where the hamantaschen recipe is (scroll to the bottom) or why I’m sharing a bean recipe for Purim. The Queen Esther salad that I created is for a Purim...
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Pesach: Roasted Beets and Beet Tahini
Roasted beets and beet tahini Instead of a shank bone, many people now replace it with a roasted beet on their seder plate (z’roa) as a representation of the pascal lamb, for a veg based meal. Inspired...
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Shavuot: Vegan Chia Pudding
Opting out of Shavuot recipes made with milks from animals, doesn’t mean you’re missing out on delicious, creamy desserts. As Jews, a group of people that are disproportionately lactose intolerant,...
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Rosh Hashana: Mangold Patties
Mangold patties These mangold patties are vegan variation on a traditional Sephardic Rosh Hashana recipe. Mangold is beets in Arabic. The main ingredient is beets-both the greens and the root, mixed...
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Kabocha Squash and Lentils Sukkot Stew
Kabocha Squash and Lentil Stew Suddenly, like a light switch turned off, summer is gone. The humidity, mosquitoes, long daylight are a memory that I still long to experience because I am not a cold...
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Simchat Torah: Stuffed Honeynut Squash
Honeynut Squash for Simchat Torah It is common to eat food that are stuffed and resemble Torah scrolls for Simchat Torah, which marks the completion of the reading of the Torah. At my shul in Los...
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Chanukah: Lemon Olive Oil Cake
Lemon Olive Oil Cake I know that cake is not an obvious Chanukah recipe, but I believe that anything with a generous use of olive oil is appropriate for the holiday. This vegan recipe that I found...
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Baked Sweet Potato Latkes
Baked sweet potato latkes These vegan baked sweet potato latkes look a bit like sea urchins, vibrantly colored with spiky extensions. But, they are gentle to the tongue and delicious. The key to making...
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Vegan Kubaneh
Vegan Kubaneh Kubaneh is Jewish Yemeni bread that is eaten both on weekdays and on Shabbat. I humbly veganized this kubaneh recipe by famed Israeli chef Meir Adoni in the New York Times. This recipe...
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