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  • Antipasti quiche

  • Bulgarian feta noodle kugel

    This may look like any noodle kugel, but ...

  • Bulgarian feta, yogurt and phyllo pastry (banitsa)

    Banitsa comes from the Turkish family of ...

  • Bulgarian pastelikos with feta

    Pastelikos are a type of borek, filled pastries ...

  • Bumuelos, Sephardi matzo and cheese Patties

    Bumuelos, or burmuleos, are fritters from ...

  • Cauliflower and cheese pashtida (kugel)

    Israelis love pashidot (plurals of pashtida, ...

  • Celery root and Swiss chard pashtida (kugel)

     In Israel we would've called it Pashtida. ...

  • Challah rolls

    Challah rolls are fun to make and great ...

  • Eggplant & cheese sambousak (Abouelafia style)

    Every time I visit Israel I simply can’t ...

  • Eggplant and goat cheese lasagna

    This recipe is not a traditional one in ...

  • Ethiopian Shabbat and holiday bread (dabo)

    Dabo is an Ethiopian bread that is served ...

  • Galician potato and yeast dough kugel (mandavortchinek or potatonik)

    Mandavortchinek is a unique kugel from Galicia ...

  • Georgian cheese and egg pastry (Adjaruli Khachapuri)

    Khachapuri is a general name for a family ...

  • Gozleme, Turkish stuffed flat bread

     Gozleme is a traditional Turkish stuffed ...

  • Grape leaves, olive and kaskaval babka

     Take the popular Polish Jewish cake, ...

  • Hasidic challah (i.e. water challah)

    Hasidic challah (known in the U.S. as water ...

  • Hungarian Lángos

    Lángos are popular Hungarian street food ...

  • Iraqi crepes for shavuot (kahi)

    Kahi is a Iraqi puff-pastry-like crepe (similar ...

  • Israeli style pita bread

    The history of flat bread starts around ...

  • Jerusalem bagel (ka’ak)

    Jerusalem bagel, or ka'ak Al-Quds in Arabic, ...

  • Jerusalem Kugel

    I’m not a kugel type of girl, but Jerusalem ...

  • Key shaped challah (shlissel challah)

    Shlissel challah is a key-shaped bread prepared ...

  • Koylitsh challah for Purim

    Koylitsh (or koilitch, or koylitch) is the ...

  • Kubaneh, Yemenite bread

    Kubaneh is a Yemenite bread that traditionally ...

  • Libyan sweet rolls for Yom Kippur (bolo)

    My friend Delphine Gamburg, a French-Israeli, ...

  • Matzo lasagna

    Growing up in Israel in the 1970s, I was ...

  • Mina de carne, Sephardi meat and matzo pie

    Mina is a Jewish Sephardi Passover pie made ...

  • Mina de kezo, Sephardi matzo & cheese pie

    Mina is a Passover pie from the Sephardi ...

  • Moroccan Ojos de Haman Purim bread

    The sweet Moroccan ojos de Haman (eyes of ...

  • Moroccan potato and carrot pie (Maakouda)

    Maakouda is a Moroccan potato pie, served ...

  • Moroccan Potato pie with dandelion (Maakouda)

    Maakouda is a Moroccan potato dish, served ...

  • Potato knishes (corned beef optional)

    The knish is a classic ashkenazi-American ...

  • Rice paper feta & green onion burekas

    In this recipe, a Turkish pastry, the borek, ...

  • Romanian malai cake

    Malai, or alivenci, is a cornbread-like ...

  • Sambousak b’tawa (Iraqi chickpea-filled turnovers)

    Sambousak is a filled fried turnover from ...

  • Savory hamantaschen

    Purim is all about the sweets. After all, ...

  • Sephardi cheesy biscuits (Boyikos)

    Boyikos are small cheese biscuits that originate ...

  • Seven heavens challah for Shavuot

    Not as glorious as Rosh Hashanah, not as ...

  • Sweet potato and goat cheese Tarte Tatin

  • Swiss chard, sumac and feta spanakopita

    Burekas or borek, Turkey-originated savory ...

  • Tahini bread

    This sounds almost too good to be true. ...

  • The biblical roots of Ethiopian sweet bread

    The Ethiopian-Jewish community marks Sigd, ...

  • The History of Kugel and Poppy seed walnut kugel recipe

    When I asked why the word “kigel” disappeared ...

  • Tomato quiche

    A great addition for the Shavuot table, ...

  • Tu BiShvat vegan challah with dried fruit

    This vegan braided challah is filled with ...

  • Winter squash, goat cheese and turmeric quiche

    Winter squash variety are so beautiful to ...

  • Yemenite multi – layered flatbread (malawach)

    Jachnun is not the only Yemenite pastry ...

  • Yemenite overnight pastry rolls (jachnun)

    In 2023, Tel Aviv celebrated its first ever ...

  • Zucchini pashtida (kugel)

    The popularity of Pashtida, a crustless ...