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5 Tips to Save You Time and Energy in the Kitchen
Do you smile when you walk into your kitchen or does it make you frown? Maybe it is time to change your kitchen into a room you like. Summertime can be stressful with vacation from school, children...
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Ceramic Coated Cooking Pans May be Killing You With Color
So-called eco-friendly, ceramic utensils may contain toxic metals like arsenic, an Israeli journalist investigates. It’s in the colors, so also be wary of color-coated knives! We buy them at health...
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Ceramic Cookware Fire Sale After TV Expose
Maurice goes to the store in Israel and sees a “fire sale” of ceramic cookware in Israel – 70% off. Public awareness of product defects and dangers can work wonders. This appears to be the case with...
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RECIPE: Sliced Sweet Potatoes Roasted in Date Honey
Looking for a quick, delicious and healthy side dish? Grab some sweet potatoes. There’s lots of cooking going on at this time of year. Passover, Easter, vacation time – guests coming over, family at...
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Keeping Up With the Food Blogs
Recipes US offers a portal into hundreds of thousands of blogger recipes, many connected to the Middle East. There is no doubt that home cooking is a good thing for our planet. Forget about the...
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Beit Sitti in Amman: Cook Like a Local Jordanian Grandmother
Kelly learns to cook like a local (vegetarian) Jordanian at Beit Sitti in Amman. For all those tourists in Amman who want to gain authentic Arabic cooking experience to bring back home and impress...
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Tahini is also a Middle Eastern Pasta Sauce
Try something a little different than plain-old tomato sauce on your pasta. Try tahini! On my first night CouchSurfing in Haifa, Israel, in the cozy apartment of a young married couple, the three of us...
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Are Cooking Coatings Messing With Birthweights and Bodies?
Overexposure by pregnant women to cookware coatings like PFC in microwave popcorn bags may result in underweight newborn babies. Be mindful of the risks when you cook. We wrote a few articles about...
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Explosive Glass Pyrex Coming to a Kitchen Near You?
My collection of Pyrex baking pans: An explosion waiting to happen? A hot Pyrex type glass baking dish can literally explode if placed on a cool surface like a sink counter top…In an illuminating...
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7 Evergreen Books on Sustainable Food for Your New Year
Eating sustainably can make a huge impact on our planet. We all know that eating sustainably, and eating local is good for the planet and good for the economy. Now that your New Year’s resolutions to...
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PART II: The ABCs of Middle-Eastern Spice Medicines from Dill to Ginger
Dried galingal root is a Middle East spice great for nausea and flatulence. In Mama Nazima’s Jewish-Iraqi Cuisine, author Rivka Goldman mentions that her mother cooked soup to help invalids regain...
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RECIPE: Melt-In-Your-Mouth Tehina Cookies
You won’t be able to keep these halvah-like cookies around for long. And they couldn’t be simpler to make. We never thought to use tehina in baking, but this recipe produces the most meltingly...
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RECIPE: Butternut Squash Stuffed With Quinoa
Hungry? Run on down to your local shuk and get yourself a butternut squash. Butternut squash is still in season. Try stuffing it with quinoa, the seed that the pre-Columbian Native Americans called...
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The ABCs of Middle East Spice Medicines, Part IV – Oregano to Rosemary
Miriam continues the fourth part of her series on medicinal herbs from the Middle East. To keep things simple for this series, we’re only considering the medicinal properties of dried seasonings. (See...
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RECIPE: Moroccan Stuffed Artichoke Hearts
Do you love artichokes? We do. Here’s a healthy recipe perfect for the Middle East. It’s springtime, and the markets of the Middle East display piles of these artichoke thistles with the succulent...
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RECIPE: Mulberry Chutney
Mulberries make delightful jams and chutneys. Miriam shows you how. Wherever you see several old mulberry trees standing together in the Middle East, you can be sure that they are descendants of trees...
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SHAVUOT RECIPE: New York Cheesecake
This light, creamy cheesecake fits into your green Shavuot, especially if you make it with organic cheese and eggs. It’s also light on sugar. The ancient Romans left a simple cheesecake recipe:...
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RECIPE: Apricot Chutney
Golden-pink apricots are in season now in the Middle East. Preserve some as chutney for year-round enjoyment. Do you like chutney? Cooking your own seasonal (and preferably organic) fruit, you can...
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Food For Thought – Iron Chef America’s Vegetarian Challenge
Have you ever looked at vegetables and thought “I can base a whole meal on all of this?” Seared salmon, braised lamb, sauteed beef: sounds delicious, but what about vegetables? Here in the Middle East...
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Too Much Salt or Not? 6 Tips for Salt
Salt comes in many forms and has many uses. How many are you aware of? One of the most common features of a set table is the salt shaker sitting neatly next to the pepper grinder. Saltiness is not only...
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