A Special-Diets Thanksgiving Feast for All to Enjoy

A Special-Diets Thanksgiving Feast for All to Enjoy

This year’s Thanksgiving will look like none other for myriad reasons, but especially so if this is your first Thanksgiving while being on a new [restricted] dietary pattern.  Many of our traditional turkey-day favorites are rife with gluten, dairy, and other ingredients that some of us Read more…

Fall Persimmon Salad with Ginger Citrus Dressing

Fall Persimmon Salad with Ginger Citrus Dressing

What better way to celebrate the end of fall than by eating in season? This beautiful salad features flavors from produce readily available this time of year in a rainbow of colors.  It’s as important to eat with our eyes as it is to taste Read more…

Sweet Potato Latkes

Sweet Potato Latkes

Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, is a minor Jewish holiday. Due to its close proximity on the calendar to Christmas, it gets a lot more attention than may be warranted. Regardless, it’s fun. Hanukkah is filled with miracles. One is around oil: There was Read more…

Honeyed Apple Tarte Tatin

Honeyed Apple Tarte Tatin

This traditional French dessert gets a Rosh Hashanah spin in this elegant and delicious finale. Apples and honey are classic Rosh Hashanah fare: The apple symbolizes the relationship between Jews and God. Meanwhile, the honey is a symbol of sweetness for the upcoming year. They go Read more…

Buttered Radish Salad with Herbs and Sorrel

Buttered Radish Salad with Herbs and Sorrel

Radishes are one of the quintessential spring veggies. They love the cold, they’re crunchy and crisp, have a bit of a bite coming off the chill of winter, and they are aaaaa-mazing with butter and salt on some bread (no, that’s not a spring characteristic, Read more…

Almond Lemon Cake

Almond Lemon Cake

The flavor of lemons and almonds blend well together. This cake incorporates both, in a light and airy dessert that is a subtly sweet finish to a wonderful meal. This cake originally hails from Italy. Since this cake does not contain flour, it is a great Read more…

Persian Charoset

Persian Charoset

Charoset is a traditional Passover food used during the seder. It represents the mortar the Jews used to cement the pyramids together during their enslavement. There are many recipes out there for charoset, and I was tired of the version endemic to Ashkenazi Jews in Read more…

Roasted Sunchokes with Creamy Lemon Sauce

Roasted Sunchokes with Creamy Lemon Sauce

During the early fall growing up in NJ, I remember a raised garden bed at my parents’ house that was full of tall stalks dotted with bright yellow sunflowers reaching towards the sky. Later in the fall my sister and I would have a blast Read more…

Basic Veggie Soup

Basic Veggie Soup

Sometimes I need something quick and easy for dinner, that is a flexible enough recipe that I can just wing it without an extra trip to the store or a lengthy grocery list. Or any grocery list, for that matter. During those times, I go with Read more…

Basil Pesto

Basil Pesto

In the midst of a damp, dreary, and cold afternoon, I decided I needed a little burst of sunshine. While it has been getting cooler in TX, a freeze hasn’t yet set in, and surprisingly I still have quite a bit of basil growing outside. Read more…