One of my motivations for this blog is to share some of the thought process that guides my cooking decisions. Recipes aren’t infallible, and it’s important to be able to use your judgment as a cook rather than blindly follow written instructions from a potentially unknown source. Other times you might trust the recipe but need to…
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Cauliflower Crust Pizza
I’m working on a backlog of posts, but this one had to get prioritized because everyone keeps asking for my recipe. Seeing as this is a perfect Passover, gluten-free, non-gebrokts (moistened matzah) recipe, its time has definitely come! I love cauliflower for its versatility. Turning it into a pizza crust is an amazing application that…
Cauliflower, Sumac, and Aged Salami Latkes with Honey-Truffle Aioli
I can’t help it. I love to tinker so much I end up a little sacrilegious in the kitchen (but still strictly kosher, don’t worry). Even more egregious this time is that it happened in my grandmother’s kitchen, the same grandmother whose traditional potato latkes I would rapturously devour every Chanukah. It’s true I abandoned…
Deconstructed Sabich
Sabich is an Israeli street food of fried eggplant, hard boiled egg, and (sometimes) boiled potato stuffed in a pita, and that’s before all the fixings. This circus in a bread pocket offers sundry launching points for exploration. In this post, I mix it all up into a deconstruction of miso-glazed eggplant with amba gel…