Cafe Liz

This pudding could have been ice cream. In fact, if it hadn’t been for an issue with my ice cream maker, it would have been ice cream. The two desserts are more similar than they may seem at first — take flavored cream and freeze it, and you have ice cream. Add a gelling agent, and you have pudding. The recipe is essentially my basic chocolate coconut sorbet. One time, I tried to make it when the ice cream maker [...]

It’s easy being green if you taste this good: Bright-green hamousta meets green wheat in a gentle twist on a local favorite. Hamousta is a Jewish-Kurdish soup generally served with kubbeh, which are stuffed dumplings. While kubbeh are fabulous, they’re also quite time-consuming to make, and in any case, I wanted to let this greens-rich soup shine in its own right. So to make the soup a little more filling, I added a handful of freekeh, or smoked green wheat. [...]