Purple potato salad with lemon and cilantro
Purple food week continues: Tonight I made a light salad out of vitelotte potatoes, with a gentle dressing of olive oil and lemon.
Soup with purple cauliflower and blue cheddar
This dish truly takes advantage of the colorful vegetables I’m preparing for my purple vegetable week, with my lovely purple cauliflower: a white cauliflower cream soup, spotted with roasted purple florets.
Saturday brunch: Lahoh, purple salad with ginger-dill dressing and more
This Saturday brunch included fresh-baked lahoh, a purple salad with ginger-dill dressing, a cheese-herb omelet and a random assortment of roasted purple vegetables. The lahoh was great, and is noteworthy because I don’t think many recipes for this Yemenite pita appear in English
Rose pasta sauce with capers and cheese
Another simple, easy dinner. The title pretty much speaks for the dish.
Do-it-yourself olives, part 2
It’s been a month since my last olive post, and I have results: My latest round of olives is cured and ready to eat (well, part of it). I started with about 2 kilos of black olives. Of those, half were cured in salt, another half were pickled in brine …
Saturday brunch with spinach bake and Italian salad
This Saturday brunch included a personal-sized baked spinach shakshuka, an Italian-style chopped salad, chocolate chip cookies made with the New York Times’ recipe, and more. Brunch is always a pleasure.
Latke bonanza, part 2
This Hanukkah, we wound up making more than 7 kilos of latkes. Indeed, the holiday isn’t even over yet, but I think I’ve had enough fried food for oh, say, the next year. Anyway, in the course of these 7+ kilos, we quite refined our latke-making technique, and came out …
Zucchini soup
This is a nice, sunny yellow soup for dreary days. A roommate of mine in Haifa used to make something similar. I should note that what we call “kishu” (קישו×) here isn’t actually what the rest of the world considers zucchini — it’s a pale, light green, squash shaped like …
Latke bonanza
I could never really get that excited about latkes, which I’d mostly experienced as patties of fried mashed potatoes. After all, I wouldn’t eat oily, soggy potatoes on other days of the year, so what made Hanukkah any different? But this year, I decided it didn’t have to be like …
Saturday morning buttermilk pancakes
We usually make waffles instead of pancakes, and I remembered why when I poured my first batch of pancakes into the pan, and they promptly burned. My waffle iron produces tidy, consistent results, but pancakes take a little practice. In any case, once I stopped burning them, the pancakes tasted …