September 30, 2010

Turkish-style bulgur with tomatoes and peppers

On one of my trips through the Levinsky Street market, I happened to have a rather fabulous cooked wheat-bulgur dish at Niso, a Turkish restaurant. I’d never had anything like it, but I could tell that it contained fried peppers and onions, tomato or tomato paste, and some spices.

Several weeks later, in my own kitchen, I whipped up my own version of the dish as I remembered it. I fried some vegetables that seemed appropriate, cooked them with the bulgur and added nutmeg and cloves, which gave me the taste I thought the dish should have.

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September 17, 2010

For Yom Kippur: Here’s some motivation to fast

Yom Kippur is upon us in a few more hours, with its 25-hour fast. The hardest thing about fasting is knowing that you can’t eat. That’s when everything starts to sound appealing. Well, nearly everything. There are still some things I wouldn’t want to eat even if I’d been fasting for days (well, or so I imagine). Things that even can raise your motivation to fast. A few weeks ago, we happened to receive this collection of vintage “Israeli” recipe [...]

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September 8, 2010

For Rosh Hashana: Sacchietti pasta filled with apples, honey and cheese

This dish aspires to combine the symbols of the Jewish new year into a new and creative form. You have your apples and honey cradled in a creamy filling, and enclosed in fresh pasta dough. And the form even looks somewhat like a pomegranate. Ok, maybe if you squint. This recipe was inspired by one of the best pasta dishes I’ve ever had

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September 1, 2010

Ramle, for food and history

I recently took a trip to Ramle with my friend Ben of Savor Israel. Admittedly it was my first time, even though Ramle is quite easily accessible from Tel Aviv — 15 minutes on the train and you’re there. And by there, I mean about a 2-minute walk from the market and the center of town. Couldn’t be easier. Ramle is known for being the only city founded in the land of Israel during the era when it was under [...]

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