In 1988, I was already a foodie, although not a well known concept at the time, and I joined a fledgling online group (the internet still in its infancy) known as Homearts (long defunct) and it was a group looking for easy and simple recipes that were tasty and quick to put together as well […]
This is one of those recipes that just kinda happened. I had a bunch of wilty looking plums (they should’ve had more life to them but so it goes) and decided I needed to use them up lickety split. So, no I didn’t feel like baking with them, just because and I already had made […]
I find that DH and I like to experiment with salads of all kinds be they cooked or fresh or pickled. The delight of multi colored salads on the table, giving you choices, is a special treat every time anew. This salad is a cooked salad and again not spicy but rather spiced with flavor, […]
I sometimes like a little heat but often want my food to be nicely spiced with a wealth of flavor without the heat -that is to say, not spicy. These kebabs were born before Passover when I was playing around with not using breadcrumbs and didn’t wanna use potato starch either (clumping effect can be […]
For many years I’ve made various and sundry versions of pound cake and like it’s name, it’s a pretty dense albeit delicious cake. I have this wonderful cookbook, Entertaining in Jerusalem by Jeanne Weisgal, which I purchased over 25 years ago (maybe longer) from which I made many a fine dish but for whatever reason, […]
I have a dear friend, Estrella, who lives in Gibraltar, whom I don’t get to see enough but we keep up all the time. Aside from being a holy riot and great fun to spend time with – she is a wonderful and spiritual person and certainly not last, or least, a renowned cook. (Yes, […]
Often, DH and I visit various and sundry countries for various and sundry reasons (my that feels like a land and time and place far, far away right now in the time of Coronavirus). We had gone to Hungary and feasted on many wonderful and different things (still dreaming of the hot kyortush we had […]
There are those days when you simply need a crunchy sweetly spicy snack and there are times you want it NOW not in a half hour. So, the joy of these lovely spicy aromatic biscotti is that they freeze so well they can be eaten fresh and freeze half a batch for those NOW moments. […]
This is another one of those meals that was caused by my dear mama. She gave me a bag of black beans (uncooked beans) and said, I don’t know how I got this but you should take it and do something with it. Hmm, this ain’t the first time. But that’s okay, I wanted to […]