Delights from the Garden of Eden: Cookbook

Delights from the Garden of Eden is an Iraqi cookbook. The author shares a few select recipes on her site. Check it out: Delights from the Garden of Eden

Strawberry Mango Mesculun Salad

Great salad – easy and full of great flavour. I would recommend cutting down the sugar content (recipe calls for 1/2 cup – which is WAY too much!) My mom usually subs in orange juice instead of sugar in recipes.  Play around with it. I think I got this from the Netivot HaTorah recipe book, [...]

Pickled: “Blogging from the Jewish Cutting Board” – Jewcy.com on Jewish Food

The crew at Jewcy.com put together their own “sub-blog” on Jewish cuisine, called “Pickled.”

“There’s something a-rye in the world of Jewish cuisine. Few can name Jewish dishes outside the realm of matzah ball soup and latkes,” writes Amy Odell of jewcy.com.
“Yet Jewish cuisine, stemming from Eastern European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern origins, [...]

Video: How to make Hummus

Loving cute Moti!
Check out his website www.sooogood.org

Sukkot & Darfurian Refugees: American Jewish World Service D’var Torah

I have had the privilege of working with American Jewish World Service on their excellent service-learning programs. One of the many excellent things this organization does is engage the American Jewish community in issues of globalization, international development and the way in which they are impacting those in the developing world. With a a [...]

Chag Sameach – Happy Sukkot

“You shall live in booths [sukkot] seven days; all citizens in Israel shall live in booths, in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I am the Lord your God.”
 (Leviticus 23; 42-45)
 

 
Today marks the first day [...]

Video: Jews of Iran

With the very controversial visit of the bizarre Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday at Columbia University and yesterday at the United Nations, one wonders about the Jewish community in Iran. Here’s an interesting piece from youtube.com showing a sliver of rarely heard Jewish community. While this isn’t specifically about cooking, it is of interest to [...]

Yaprak: Stuffed Grape Leaves

Me and Talya Enriquez (right) in NYC
Love stuffed grape leaves – in Hebrew, they are “alei gefen” (literally grape leaves) but in Turkey, they are called “Yaprak.” My friend Talya (above right) hails from Izmir Turkey, where her mother Sarah makes the most incredible food. On the last day of my visit there, she [...]

Fun: Peanut Butter Popcorn

A favorite website/blog of mine is Apartment Therapy They have a “Kitchen” portion of the site devoted to kitchen design issues – but mainly to cooking. It’s great. Today they had a Fall Snacking Feature – and given my brother’s obsession with popcorn (and another family member’s guaranteed popcorn-induced flatulence!) I couldn’t resist posting their [...]

Sababa’s Lentil Soup

As the leaves outside begin to change colors, I begin to crave soup.  Autumn is by far my favorite season, and this lentil soup is indeed my favorite soup. I have fond memories of lunches at Sababa in Toronto with friends, and the day I got a copy of their soup recipe. Apparently so many [...]