Flaky golden pastry, sweet caramelised onions, and delicious salty cheese combine in this wonderful savoury onion and feta tart. An easy, tasty family dinner! Know your onions I never seem to have the right number of onions. Onions are one of the vegetables that arrive weekly in our organic box…
This light, creamy and delicious vegan panna cotta is simplicity to make! An impressive dessert served with vibrant seaonal rhubarb. As much as I love Shavuot’s delicious dairy desserts, they don’t always love me back. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in my intolerance of large amounts of milky, creamy,…
A tangy-sweet goats cheese strudel, with crisp layers of buttery filo pastry, a luscious creamy filling, and cinnamon, walnuts & pistachios for a hint of Eastern flair. The power of punctuation! When my daughter Kipper discovered that the @ sign is called ‘strudel‘ in Hebrew, she was completely tickled. And…
Make light work of Shavuot entertaining with a handy pick-and-mix menu planner! Choose from over 40 easy recipes for delicious prepare-ahead main dishes, salads and desserts, including fish, vegetarian and vegan options. In case you hadn’t noticed, Shavuot is approaching! I love to entertain on YomTov, but when we have…
Full of fresh flavours and blanketed with a layer of crispy golden crumbs, this delicious vegetable and salmon pasta bake is simple to make but fancy enough to serve on YomTov. It’s nearly Shavuot, and I think I’m finally ready to talk about what happened at Pesach. Or rather, what…
A deliciously smooth & creamy Israeli pudding, this vegan Malabi is made with coconut and almond milks, flavoured with rosewater, and topped with luscious pomegranate syrup. At the end of last year we took a foodie tour of the Levinsky market in Tel Aviv. One of the highlights for me was…
Traditional cheese blintzes are given a makeover & assembled into this beautiful & delicious crepe cake. Perfect with fresh fruit for a springtime dessert. Shavuot favourites Which is your favourite Shavuot dessert? Cheesecake? Strudel? Mine has to be cheese blintzes – transparently-thin golden pancakes wrapped around a sweet cream cheese…
This gorgeously creamy & delicious biscoff cheesecake dip uses only 3 ingredients, and is ready in 2 minutes! It makes a wonderful dessert or snack. I’m really quite excited about this amazingly easy and addictively delicious biscoff cheesecake dip. Creamy, sweet, spicy with biscoff cookie butter, and packed full of chocolate chips –…
Sweet, creamy cheesecake – in popcorn form! These little cups of deliciousness are a terrific snack for both kids and adults. After the success of Rosh Hashanah’s apple and honey popcorn, I decided to create cheesecake popcorn for Shavuot. Everyone loves popcorn, right? Well, my daughter Kipper does, and she’s…
Fruity berry cheesecake topped by a plain cheesecake layer and decorated with berry syrup swirls. These cute and easy mini cheesecakes are just divine! Shavuot in the sunshine Last year, Cambridge enjoyed its first Shavuot garden party, held in the gorgeous surroundings of Kings College Fellows Garden. The sun shone, Pimms was drunk,…
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