Moroccan and Tunisian adafina (or dafina, t’feena, s’heena, s’cheena) is a dish of chickpea, meat and vegetables that is cooked […]
Holidays
Recipes for Jewish and Israeli holidays
Yemeni green Z’houg (chili pepper and cilantro salsa)
Just how spicy should the z’houg be is really up to you and much you can tolerate. The original z’houg […]
Yemenite overnight pastry rolls (jachnun)
In 2023, Tel Aviv celebrated its first ever Jachnun Festival. Celebrity pastry chefs, jachnun joints and hungry crowds gathered at […]
Hungarian poppy seed crescents (kifli)
The classic filling for these yeast dough crescents is poppy seeds cooked in milk and honey. The yeast in the […]
Salted peanuts and caramel hamantaschen
Hamantaschen are the new soufganiyot! Take a stroll through the many pastry shops in Israel these days before Purim and […]
Birthday hamantaschen
Rainbow sprinkles on the outside, cream cheese frosting inside. *Mic drop
Nutella and halva hamantaschen
Classic Purim cookie takes an Israeli-Italian turn.
Poppy seeds forever
My husband heard this story many times as a child: When my father-in-law was about 12 years old, he and […]
Shalach Manot – a Purim gift basket
The mitzvah of Mishloach Manot (in Hebrew “sending portions of food) , or chalach manot, sending a basket of food […]
Poppy Seed Hamantaschen, two ways
Queen Esther, according to Jewish tradition, kept a vegetarian diet of seeds at King Achashverosh’s palace, in order to avoid […]