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Month: October 2022

delicata, butternut squash quiche
Breakfast, chef's recipe, Pastries & Breads, Shavuot

Winter squash, goat cheese and turmeric quiche

Winter squash variety are so beautiful to look at, it’s crazy how delicious they are as well. This quiche combines […]

Meat stuffed potato in tomato sauce mafroum m'batab batata
Libyan, Main course, Shabbat, Tunisian

Tunisian meat stuffed potato (mafroum, m’battan batata)

Mafroum is an irresistible dish of meat stuffed potato (like a sandwich,) fried and then cooked in tomato sauce. It […]

Quince paste candy louzina iraqi
Desserts, Iraqi, Rosh Hashanah

Iraqi quince and almond candies (luzina)

Luzina is a modern version of a medieval Arab candy made of almonds. According to The Oxford Companion to Sugar […]

Libyan, Pastries & Breads, Yom Kippur

Libyan sweet rolls for Yom Kippur (bolo)

My friend Delphine Gamburg, a French-Israeli, remembers how as a young girl in Paris, her Algerian-born aunt would give her […]

Kreplach
Ashkenazi, Polish, Purim, Shabbat, Soups, Sukkot, Yom Kippur

Kreplach (Ashkenazi dumplings)

Kreplach are Ashkenazi dumplings, similar to pierogi, stuffed with meat or potato and served in chicken soup. My grandmother used […]