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Kosher vegetarian recipes from my kitchen in Tel Aviv
Cherry tomato jam
November 28, 2009 at 6:00 pm | Tags: jam, parve, tomato, vegan
Lately, I’ve been buying a big 1-kilogram carton of cherry tomatoes every week. And every week, I go through the entire thing, minus 20 little tomatoes or so. And since week-old tomatoes don’t compare to fresh ones, I’ve been accumulating little cups of wrinkling cherry tomatoes in my fridge.
What to do? I turned them into a jam. While the concept of tomato jam may sound a bit strange, since most jams are made with fruit, it’s actually quite good when done correctly. Some of my favorite breakfast places, including LovEat, serve cherry tomato jam. Plus, tomatoes are indeed fruit.
This jam is great warm, and quick to make — I made it while preparing an omelet for brunch. The whole cherry tomatoes come out wonderfully spreadable. Continue reading Cherry tomato jam…
Israeli breakfast — the best of brunch in Tel Aviv, and a mustard-blue cheese omelet
November 16, 2009 at 11:00 pm | Tags: brunch, egg, Israeli, restaurant, Tel Aviv
Brunch is beyond a tradition in Tel Aviv -- it's a culture. Every self-respecting restaurant offers a breakfast menu, which invariably includes "Israeli breakfast" -- generally speaking, some form of eggs, a leafy or chopped vegetable salad, assorted white cheeses, a few other spreads, some bread, coffee and/or fresh juice. The main variation is in the creativity of the spreads, the quality of the ingredients and the price.
(In the photo: Breakfast at the Brasserie. A review of my favorite brunch places is at the bottom of the post.)
Just how much is this a tradition? Everyone likes going out for breakfast, often in the early afternoon, but who prepares this at home? Well, we do, every weekend. Continue reading Israeli breakfast — the best of brunch in Tel Aviv, and a mustard-blue cheese omelet...
Happiness is stuffed vegetables when it’s raining
November 8, 2009 at 2:00 am | Tags: dill, parve, pepper, rice, stuffed, tomato, vegan, zucchini
Nothing like a cold, rainy day to make me want to turn on the oven and whip up a massive tray of stuffed vegetables of all shapes and sizes. It takes about an hour to bake, and you’ll find me here, huddled next to the oven door the entire time.
You can stuff way more than just peppers — I started with six peppers, then moved on to two zucchini and four tomatoes. You could give onions the same treatment; I just wasn’t in the mood. Baking all these vegetables together in the pan adds flavor to the entire dish, though.
There they are, hot out of the oven and overflowing with rice Continue reading Happiness is stuffed vegetables when it’s raining…
Braised hijiki salad, and a Japanese-Israeli picnic
November 2, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Tags: carrot, hijiki, Japanese, parve, salad, seaweed, tofu, vegan
I had the honor of being invited to the semi-annual picnic of the rather small Japanese-Israeli community this week. Aside from the dozens of interesting people and oodles of adorable children were plate after plate of fabulous food — several kinds of tamago, various onigiris and sushi rolls, iced roasted rice tea and uncountable stir-fries. In fact, this was probably the first picnic I’d been to in Israel where only one person brought pitas and hummus (guilty as charged).
Good Japanese food is rather hard to find in Israel, let alone Japanese home cooking — the majority of the restaurants paint themselves as upscale, with prices to match. I think the large majority of the country’s Japanese home cooks were present in the park that afternoon.
Who attends a Japanese-Israeli picnic? Aside from our little group, everyone there was intermarried couples and their children. Needless to say, most people were fluent in both languages and cultures. As one 12-year-old girl explained to us, she was born in Israel, and is completely Israeli, except that she’s Japanese.
So, what does Japanese Israeli picnic food look like? Continue reading Braised hijiki salad, and a Japanese-Israeli picnic…
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