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This is another one of those dishes you can add to a brunch or dinner buffet. I grow rosemary in my garden and have the other ingredients in my pantry at all times. New Year’s Day, I put the potatoes in the oven when I got up, they developed a beautiful crust and complimented the […]
It might seem silly to post a recipe for roasted tomatoes, but the more I talk to people, the more I realize that there is a need for even simple basic recipes. With a recipe this simple, it’s imperative that you use the best quality tomatoes you can find, and the best quality olive oil […]
This is a recipe I used to make years ago using store bought biscuits. I was testing it two weeks before the New Year’s Day party and it was cooling on my kitchen counter one evening when two friends stopped by for an impromptu dinner. We sat at dinner commiserating about how we had eaten […]
At breakfast in Morocco recently, I was drawn to row after row of lipstick-red mini tagines. I lifted the lid on one and to my delight saw eggs that looked like they had been basted, nesting in a bed of luscious tomato sauce. After the first bite, I decided that I had to make these. […]
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Morning of Party (My party started at 12:30 p.m.)
Have a drink and wait for your guests to arrive!
* Fresh fruit salad (GF)
* Apple fig crumble (GF)
* Greek yoghurt (GF)
Smoked salmon platter (GF)
* Capers, sliced tomatoes, sliced onions, sliced Persian cucumbers and pickles
* Bagels and cream cheese
* Shakshuka (GF)
Lamb hash (GF)
* Roasted Tomatoes (GF)
* Roasted fingerling potatoes (GF)
* Rugelach (chocolate, prune, cinnamon)
Coffee
Tea
(GF) Gluten Free
* Vegetarian
When I was a kid, my parents always had a New Year’s Day brunch. The menu featured lots of Jewish deli food, bagels and cream cheese and lox (which we now call “smoked salmon”), corned beef, pastrami, potato salad, cole slaw, other cold cuts, lots of pastries and of course my mother’s blintz souffle. It […]
So much of what I love about Morocco is that I experience living history. I wandered through Souks that have existed since the Middle Ages, that Edith Wharton wrote about in the 1920’s, that combine Berber, Hebrew, Roman and French influences. And nowhere is this more evident than in the food. The recipes and cooking […]
When you read about the food in Morocco or traveling to Morocco, you will come across references to the endless and non-stop selection of sweet pastries. I didn’t remember this from my last visit but the books do not exaggerate. It starts at breakfast with an unlimited selection of donuts, cookies, fruit tarts, Berber pancakes […]
