Peas, Shiitakes & Spinach Scramble
This is the kind of food that I eat on a daily basis, usually in the winter, when I feel that I’m coming down with something. I also avoid eating sugar and take extra vitamin C and D. It works…
Gluten-Free Sourdough Bread
STEP BY STEP. This is the second best thing after wheat sourdough. There are tones of sourdough bread recipes on the internet but most of them are long and complicated. Hopefully this one will make it easier for you. FYI…
Vegan Overnight Stew (Hamin)
Hamin (the Sephardic version of Cholent) is a traditional Jewish overnight stew that has been made by Jews around the world for generations, specifically for Shabbat, as they were prohibited from cooking or lighting fires from Friday sundown to Saturday…
Plant-Based Mushroom & walnut Paté
I needed to bring something for a friend’s birthday picnic in nature (Franklin Canyon). I didn’t have any direction or idea, or a lot to choose from. I found a box of cremini mushrooms in the fridge and walnuts in…
Easy Banana Bread (Dairy-Free)
NEVER THROW AWAY OVERLY RIPE BANANAS! Especially if they’re brownish and honey-like. When they reach that state their flavor is intense. They are also very sweet so you don’t need to add lots of sugar to the batter. I used…
Smoky Cauliflower Salad
Remember the days when cauliflower wasn’t popular? When she was considered boring? When no one knew what to do with her? Well those days are over, a decade ago. Now she is a mega celebrity that everyone wants to cook…
Roasted Red Cabbage
Since winter arrived I’ve been mostly braising or roasting veggies for lunch and dinner. I don’t know why but I can’t think of any other cooking methods when I am cold. It isn’t as cold in LA as it is…
Gluten-Free Almond Pear Cake (DF)
Is it normal to be organized but messy? Fearful of failure but courages to start all over again? Love all foods but be fussy? Terrified of cockroaches but totally okay with spiders? Hate to fly but love to travel? Skeptical…
Coconut Pumpkin Soup
When I was a kid in the not-so-holy land, the only type of pumpkin – Dla’at in Hebrew, not as fun to say as pumpkin, or as Alex used to call it when he was a toddler pumpking – I…
Vegan Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cake
Up until a month ago I didn’t like the flavor of sweet peanut butter, such as in PB&J and Reese’s. It took me almost a decade to like peanut butter in general and another decade to like it sweetened. It’s…
simple roasted ratatouille
It’s funny that I know how to make ratatouille but didn’t know how to spell ratatuille… it took me five attempts to spell it right RATATOUILLE ? I need to explain, to the French of us, that for me, any…
ketoish dark chocolate & tahini truffles
They have an addictive flavor and fun to make, which can be challenging when you try to avoid sugar completely. They’re all the diets friendly (Keto, vegan, Paleo…). Too friendly 🙂 if you can limit yourself to 2 maximum 3…
grain-free Sesame bagels
These are not your typical New York-style bagels or any traditional bagels, but they do have a hole and can be enjoyed with cream cheese and beet-lax, or my personal favorite, avocado. Additionally, they are much easier and quicker to…
Seattle fog – earl gray latte
The first time I had an earl gray latte was in Seattle. It was in a place called Mr. West Cafe Bar. They also had the most delicious almond butter and Jam toast. It was one of the best toasts…
Upside-Down rice With Vegetables
Years ago, when my boys were little, I chatted with a Bedouin mom in the playground in my hometown in the Negev, the desert of Israel. I asked her if she cooks and she said she did, everyday. So I…
Pumpkin Spice Cookies
I was craving cookies but run out of coconut sugar or maple syrup so I decide to use molasses to make my basic cookies recipe. Molasses has a strong, burnt flavor but with pumpkin spice it somehow disappear. I grounded…
Hummus With Spinach & Tomato Salad
I was going to make baked falafel, with the little I had in hand, but I over processed the chickpeas (I hummused the hell out of them.) I should’ve had used a fork to mush them. Oh well, no harm…
Japchae
Jap-che, I love saying it with Korean accent. I can make a pretty good Korean accent because I had a Korean friend, who has a thick accent. So thick that when she says zoo it sounds like Jew. She is…
Banana, Whisky & Coconut Nice-cream
No ice cream machine, no dairy, no refined-sugar, no effort, no fuss, just a little bit of patience until the bananas are frozen, and then one more time after you process them into a creamy ice cream.
Feta Baked with Tomatoes & Thyme
Once upon a time we lived in New York City, had no kids and no use for our kitchen. We had our breakfasts at our second homes Cafe Mogador or Cafe Gitane. Z used to get the baked feta and…