Need something delicious to go alongside your main dish? Easy, tasty side dishes and salads are the answer!
Nutty, buttery, savoury kasha with mushrooms. Recipe from Paola Gavin’s book Hazana: Jewish Vegetarian Cooking. Traditional Jewish food can sometimes seem a bit meat-centric, so I was giddy with delight when I discovered this beautiful new recipe book by Paola Gavin. It’s stuffed to the gills with delectable Jewish vegetarian recipes…
Deeply savoury roasted vegetables, crunchy sweet cucumbers & peppers, and a creamy tahini dressing, make for a deliciously hearty barley salad. Does anyone else quake with dread at the words “three day yomtov”? When Rosh Hashanah starts on a Wednesday evening you know you’re in for SIX big festive meals…
Fresh crisp courgette noodles – or “zoodles!” – are tossed with olives, ripe juicy tomatoes, & a creamy avocado dressing, for a delicious summer lunch or side dish. Do you ever start cooking with a clear idea in mind, only to change pretty much everything before you’re done? That’s what…
Summertime Shabbat lunches = SALAD. When the weather warms up, if the food isn’t cold, then I don’t want to know. It’s too hot out to be leaving the oven on or warming things up. The food needs to be served fridge-cold, or at most, room temperature. So, the annual search for new…
Sweet, tangy, crunchy, tender & crisp, this gorgeous summery spinach salad has it all! Beautiful ripe strawberries & a light dressing make the flavour pop. There are so many reasons why I love this strawberry cucumber spinach salad! Mostly, it’s because it tastes like summer in a bowl and is…
Back during Pesach, readymade frozen oven chips were off the menu. Perhaps you can buy them for Pesach where you live, but here in Cambridge, far from a large kosher shop, there were none to be had. And I was really craving chips. Well, not necessarily chips, but definitely hot,…
A huge and heartfelt thanks to everyone who took part in the first ever One Potato Two Potato linky for vegetarian potato and sweet potato recipes. The entries all look absolutely delicious and really show off the versatility of potatoes and sweet potatoes, as we have everything from main dishes,…
How many days before you’re fed up with matzah? Three? Four? Maybe you can even make it for five before a sort of desperate craving for some other carb really kicks in. Well, when you reach that point, reach for this recipe, because these Pesach scones are the perfect antidote!…
Sometimes the simplest things are the most effective, and that’s certainly the case with this extremely simple roasted romanesco with za’atar. Four ingredients, minimal effort, mega results. I bought this beautiful fractal vegetable on the market – I’d only stopped to get some oranges but couldn’t resist its gorgeous green…
Do you find that your family will eat / not eat certain things depending on what you call them? DH “hates” kugel and will not eat it. However, when I made this rosti – a potato kugel by any other name – he was quite enthusiastic. Hmmm. I really fancied…
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