Health Benefits of Indian food First, besides being fantastically delicious – Indian food is healthy. In fact, it is so healthy that one of the main spices is an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, fights free radicals, fights infections, has been studied and proven to fight the onset of Alzheimer’s and cancer and more! What is this super […]
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Avocado and Apple salad
One way to perfect a dish is to showcase all 5 “tastes” – salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami (which refers to a type of fermented taste). When you use all 5 tastes this sometimes makes for a delicious “symphony” of flavors, but if the dish is out of balance the flavors could quickly turn […]
Gary, Indiana ?
We took a quick trip to Indiana for the first days of Sukkot to visit our friends from Israel. It is 645 miles from where we live. And unfortunately, all the words I know to “Gary, Indiana” are “Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary Indiana, My home sweet home.” And well, after about 10 miles of […]
Apples! The New Year is coming… Salads with apples
Thank you so much to Elisheva Rabinowitz for the opportunity to write this article about some New Year appropriate salads. Since, we are coming to the New Year and apples are on my mind, we’ll look at a few salad recipes. First of all, you can always add diced apples to whatever salad you would […]
No cook wraps and Smoothies
First of all, tortillas are from Aztecs – who knew. The Spanish conquistadors (in 1519) changed their name to tortilla (from the Nahuatil tlaxcalli) – apparently from the word torta and meaning “small cake”. Also, in an interesting side note – the reason tortillas have lemon (besides being tasty – I thought that was […]
Fennel, Coriander, Black Sesame Seed Encrusted Rib Eye Steak
For Shabbos, we made a number of new dishes – and we tried some new plating ideas and we actually photographed some of them. I started off with trying a new technique (for me) for the rib eye steak from Bryan Voltaggio. I made a dry rub of fennel seeds, coriander and black sesame […]