Easy One-Bowl Banana Bread
This is not my typical banana bread. This is my pleasing banana bread which I make for my family. My family isn’t as enthusiastic about the cakes I make with olive oil, spelt, coconut sugar. They prefer their cakes with…
Self-Sabotaging Blueberry Cake
What would you have made for 16 teenagers for lunch? I’ll tell you what the other parents made or bought for the robotics team: pizza, Chinese food, pizza, turkey wraps, burgers, tacos, and pasta. I made hummus, potato and herb…
Bread Making Class At LAVC
I’m excited to announce my upcoming bread baking class next month at Los Angeles Valley College. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, this is an opportunity you won’t want to miss! In this hands-on class, you’ll learn the valuable…
Skillet Cornbread With Nectarine
When the Newmans offer you to stay in their country home on the Lake of Glenville, you don’t think about it and hesitate. You postpone your flight back home, and you stay three more days North Carolina. Even if you’ve…
Moroccan Tea Cookies With Anise
Every single time I make a batch of these irresistible heroine-biscuits, I swear it’ll be the last time. And I’d probably keep that promise if someone didn’t always beg me to make them. Or if a sudden burst of inspiration…
Cashew Cheesecake With Strawberry
The other day, I made this cake but told my husband not to mention anything about it to his mother, cousin, and that cousin’s friend. I wanted to see if they would realize that it’s not a real cheesecake. I…
One-Pot Meals Cooking Class
Next month I will be teaching again at LA Valley College how to prepare unfussy, one-pot meals. If you live in Los Angeles or know someone who lives here who would be interested in taking my class, please forward this…
Druze Pita With Labneh & Za’atar
For those of you who don’t know or who have never been to Israel, not everything Israeli is Jewish and not everything Jewish is Israeli. Einstein was Jewish but not Israeli, and Druze laffa is not Jewish but very Israeli—as…
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…
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 anise cookies are more rustic…
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 better public high school. I…
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 her headaches. Sometimes she takes…
Easy Sesame & Sunflower Brittle
Before the pandemic, I used to make this brittle weekly for my boys’ lunch bags. It’s a treat that checks all the boxes: gluten-free, grain-free, vegan, and free from refined sugar, yet deliciously crunchy. I had the pleasure of filming…
Turkish Style Flatbreads
They should teach in elementary school how to make basic bread. All humans should know how to create this godly attribute. Even French people and lawyers. The process of mixing flour, yeast (or sourdough starter), salt and water into a…
Simple Almond Lemon Cake
Eema (me): “Alex, this is delicious, are you sure you don’t want to be a pastry chef when you grow up?”Alex: “What is a pastry chef?”Eema: “A pastry chef is someone who makes cakes and cookies for a living.”Alex: “What…