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Roast Chicken with Sour Yellow Plums (and some mango memories)
Sour fruit has a secret – dust it with salt and a hidden sweetness emerges. I roasted chicken with sour plums and a little sweet white wine.
Street Portraits, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
Many of my photos I’ve kept in my archives, thinking I’d post them here someday. Some involve stories I’m not at liberty to tell. Some evoke a mood that lives, I guess, in my mind alone. But many are of plain, human faces caught in moments of humor, irritation, thought. The unconscious dignity of labor [...]
Fresh Fig Cobbler
I’m loopy over fresh figs; such a seductive fruit. And I love the fig tree, especially on hot summer nights, when the big, coarse leaves smell deliciously like vanilla and cinnamon. I like its sturdy stance, and the branches so generously laden with green and purple-striped fruit. To open a fig plucked right off the [...]
Semolina Gnocchi
Semolina gnocchi, topped with your favorite sauce, are a tasty alternative to pasta.
4 Vegetarian Recipes for Meatless Days
Vegetarian recipes for the nine meatless days before Tisha B’Av.