When I went out to lunch with a friend a couple of days ago, we had a salad covered in a creamy, sweet/sour sauce and mixed with dried cranberries, beets and apple. It was to.die.for. We gave it our best shot at guessing what was in it and then decided just to ask. Simple ingredients, …
If that name scares you and makes you think it’s zucchini cooked with some sort of tropical bird, rest assured. No birds were harmed in the making of this breakfast. Only unborn baby chicks. Oh wow, that’s so sad. I wrote last time about Olive Roasted Almonds as being the sophisticated sister of shlumpy popcorn …
My friend told me about this incredible appetizer that her friend brought to a dinner: olives and almonds roasted with a bunch of spices and bay leaves. I think I thought it sounded interesting more than anything else. And I have to be honest, I took my first bite with caution. But what a surprise! …
This is my least favorite word to say in Hebrew besides every word that has an “r” in it. I can’t roll my r’s well, and it’s a huge problem for me when I go to order an Americano at a coffee shop and, well, I just sound so American! But this is my least …
I don’t know about you, but I’m not a huge breakfast person. I always want something like that I can take on the go quickly, but the granola at the store is packed with so much sugar and not a lot of the A+ ingredients that leave me feeling happy, instead of guilty. And …
A Moroccan Tent filled with lots of yummy, healthy flavors. This salad turned out to be so delicious! So, let’s get right to it. Serves: 2-3 Recipe adapted from here What you need: 1 C wild rice 3 nori sheets (i used regular sushi rolling sheets, but you can use any kind of seaweed you like. …
All-Purpose Spice Mix and Rub I mentioned Baharat in a previous post, but I wanted to give you a sense of what it looks like. Baharat is Arabic for “spices,” (the plural form of bahar, “spice” and, incidentally, the Persian word for “spring,” (as in the season), which is where my mom’s side of the …
Mafroum (Muh-froom)—Stuffed Potatoes, and NOT for the faint of heart Is it Tunisian, Libyan, Moroccan or Algerian? Different people will give you different answers because it’s so good everyone wants to claim it! This recipe is inspired by Boulet, meat-stuff potatoes that all the women in my fiance’s family make for Shabbat dinner. When we …
Silvie’s Shakshuka (Shawk-shook-uh) There is no more perfect a dish to begin this blog with than Shakshuka, meaning “a mixture” in the North African Berber dialect Tamazight because Shakshuka was the first “Israeli” dish I learned how to cook when I moved to Israel. My soon-to-be Tunisian mother-in-law taught it to me as her …
my jerusalem kitchen 