Dates With Destiny
As a kid in Israel, whenever I spotted a palm tree with clusters of yellow dates, I would run to it and look at the ground for fallen fruits. I would look for the ones that were intact. If they…
Skillet Cornbread With Nectarine
When the Newmans offer you to stay in their country home on the Lake of Glenville, North Carolina, you don’t debate. You postpone your flight back home and stay a few days extra. Even if you’ve already spent ten days…
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…
Easy Passover Layered Cake
I’m assuming most of you are already familiar with Passover. In a nutshell, Passover is a major Jewish holiday, one of the three pilgrimage festivals, that celebrates the Biblical story of the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt. Our family…
Easy Plant-based Fig Ice Cream
There’s a popular ice cream shop in our neighborhood that makes exquisite dairy ice cream but their vegan ice cream is eh. It’s not the flavors, they’re okay, it’s the texture. Sorbet is more rich than that pea protein-made ice…
Tapioca Pudding with Pureed Loquat
Stop and pick the loquats (shesek, nispero, biwa). Those mother-clusters of oval, orange fruits you see everywhere during may and June are edible indeed. If you pick them, make sure to select only the very orange with brown spots, those…
Baked Nectarines, Peaches & Plums
I intended to make a fruit crisp but I accidentally over processed the nut mixture into a sandy mixture. So I mixed it with 1 egg to fix it and the crust came out chewy, like nougat. It was tasty…
Dairy-Free Orange Pancakes
My boys asked if I can make normal pancakes for a change. Normal as with gluten and eggs. This is my most normal pancake recipe. With a small twist but as fluffy and light as classic pancakes. No one complained.…
Gluten-Free Reifat (Anise Cookies)
I experimented with my grandmother’s Moroccan Anise Biscuits (Reifat) recipe and came up with a delicious gluten-free version that can also be made vegan. These biscuits are easy to make, only require one bowl to wash, and contain a small…
Step By Step Sourdough Bread
MY SOURDOUGH STARTER IS READY, NOW WHAT? For an instant gratificationist like me, the process of making sourdough bread can be sour indeed. It’s not the labor that gets me – the mixing, kneading and shaping are pretty easy. It’s…
Dairy-free Banana Bread
NEVER THROW AWAY OVERLY RIPE BANANAS! NEVER!
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…
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…
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…
savory vegetable crumble
Don’t you find it annoying when you search for a recipe online, click on a picture, scroll down, and down, and down and down, and after 10 seconds, you’re like, “screw you, I don’t need your recipe!” So from now…
keto friendly almond cookies
Last week after feeling low and bloated again I decided to quite gluten, grains and most sugars. Luckily, I have Miss Rogel, who’s a friend, a brilliant designer, a talented cook, and many other things. She’s been on a strict…
Easy Tahini Cookies (V)
I’m craving something sweet But healthy sweet Something to have with my fresh herb tea Something quick and yummy Maybe a cookie? Definitely a cookie! Chocolate chip cookie? No, not again! Oh wow! these look good Ooooh, I love tahini…
Celery, apple & basil smoothie
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a singer, actress, fashion designer and a mom of four adopted children from Africa. I never became a singer, actress or…