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…
This gorgeous Shavuot gift hamper contains treats for all the family – fruits, nuts, chocolates, cake, honey & even a bottle of grape juice for Kiddush. Read on to see how you can win it or get 10% discount if you treat yourself or a friend! Let’s face it, the…
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…
At the end of last year we took a foodie tour of the Levinsky market in Tel Aviv, and one of the highlights for me was the vegan malabi. Malabi is traditionally a dairy dessert, but this one was made with coconut milk and was creamy, sweet and delicious. I promised…
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 & decorated with berry syrup swirls. These cute & easy individual 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…
Fuelled by the success of my courgetti, we’ve been a bit spiraliser-crazy here recently, and I had three large courgettes (zucchini) sitting in the fridge, awaiting their moment of spiralisation. But, you can have too much of a good thing, and I ultimately decided to prepare them with a mandolin…
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