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Lemony Chicken & Rice Soup
The Greeks call it Avgolemono. It’s a rich lemon and chicken soup with rice thickened with eggs. No cream or dairy at all yet it’s unbelievably creamy and smooth. Said to cure all illnesses, I just...
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Tapa d’or
The simplest of dishes. Bread with marinated grated tomato. Tas and I had our honeymoon 3 years late and went on a short tour of Europe this past summer. Barcelona was one of the stops. We ate at Tapas...
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Roasted Tomato & Wild Rice Soup
I ate a bagel with cream cheese and Lay’s Salt & Vinegar Chips for lunch every day during my sophomore year of high school. The lunch lady, a larger woman with a thick Jersey accent, never asked...
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Tahini Udon with Charred Eggplant
Everyone growing up in my hometown of Cresskill has eaten at Hanami. A Japanese and Chinese restaurant right in the middle of town. Till this day, it’s the only non-pizza or bagel place.* They would...
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BIBB LETTUCE SALAD WITH GOCHUGARU BUTTERMILK BLUE CHEESE DRESSING
As you know by now, I love Korean food. So when I wanted to make a spicy and tangy buttermilk blue cheese dressing for a fresh salad, gochugaru just popped into my thoughts. Its a coarsely ground...
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Kimchi Bacon Creamed Corn
Creamed Corn. Never tried it. Thought it could only be found at the bottom shelf of the canned vegetable aisle at the grocery store. I’m from the north where you don’t see or hear much about creamed...
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Spring Panzanella Salad
What’s better than a light, fresh spring salad? A light, fresh spring salad with a ton of toasted bread soaked in dressing, obviously! The panzanella salad originates in Italy and is said to date back...
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Banana Bacon Fat Cornbread
Dear Sean Brock, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for being the one to catch my cornbread attention. As a New Yorker and Torontonian, I believed that cornbread was something that...
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Baharat Spiced Beef Hummus
After writing an Israeli cookbook and working with Chef Todd Ginsberg at one of his restaurants, Yalla, you could say that I have somewhat of an obsession with hummus. It’s an art form. I wouldn’t...
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Everything Bagel Spice Toast
I need an intervention. I’m putting everything bagel spice on all the things. In my new book, (enter plug here: hitting shelves October 13th), I’ve made everything challah, everything garlic knots for...
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Bourbon Sage Paté with Coffee Butter
What a lovely night it was. Tas and I invited our friends, and friends of friends, for a great night of tapas and cocktails to raise money for World Food Day through a FEED Supper. We fed them and they...
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Hummus & Tahina with Soft Boiled Egg & Everything Bagel Spice
The world has gone hummus crazy! Not complaining. Since coming out with Modern Israeli Cooking, I have gotten more questions about hummus than anything else. And the answer will always be YES, hummus...
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Sweet Potato Brûlée
There is something I must say first. THIS PURPLE SWEET POTATO. The pretties thing I have ever seen. They grow out in Cali and also in the south. I have been able to find them here in Atlanta. They....
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Sweet Potato & Garlic Confit Hummus
I don’t normally set out to make vegan recipes. And I’m going to lie to you and say that I TOTALLY meant to make this recipe a vegan one… But not really. It’s January, which means all you brave souls...
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Fennel & Radish Fattoush
I taught my first cooking class!! Cook’s Warehouse in East Cobb, Atlanta hosted me for my first Modern Israeli Cooking Cookbook class. I had a great time and everyone there did too. It may have taken...
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Hummus with Roasted Cabbage
What the shit. I go away for 3 days to come home to “cold” weather here in Atlanta. Where is spring? Like the snow coming down in June, I’m missing the warmness like Case. Shout out to 2001. It was...
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Matza Ball Hush Puppies
This is my nightmare holiday. I have never been able to hold out through a week of a unleavened Passover diet. If I’m not mistaken, I think 12 hours is my record at this point and that’s just because I...
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Kebabs in a Blanket
We’ve got a “Big Boy” tomato plant in my front yard. We built it a nice cage thing with some sticks and twine. It’s super cute and it just sprouted some flowers. I obviously don’t know my gardening...
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Za’atar Tomato Hummus
Can you smell the tomatoes yet?? The season is so close. This is why I’m posting this now. So when those first tomatoes hit the market, you’ll know exactly what you need to do with them: Simply dress...
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Sumac Chicken Salad with Labne Ranch
Finally booking up summer. Lots of visits back to Toronto, visits to NJ/NY, a short trip to Vegas to play the roulette table like a seventy year old woman, and adult summer camp. Yaaaasssssss. Adult...
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