Chocolat à Toute Heure: Which means, chocolate anytime. That’s right, not only in minor emergencies such as an attack of the munchies. You can have it for dinner too, as in this fabulous bean dish and chicken dish: how liberating is that? Of course we are only talking about dark chocolate, not chocolate candy [...]

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  I whip up my BBB recipe, as I call it, whenever company is coming on short notice. If I don’t have the burritos or corn tortillas on hand, I simply put the filling in a bowl, and let everyone dig in, with corn chips and guacamole. Chocolate, beans and beer. A mischievous and wonderfully [...]

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Submit to the seduction of Chocolate and jasmine! Ingredients: 3 cups flour: all-purpose, whole pastry, or spelt 1 tablespoon baking powder Good pinch salt 11/2 cups sugar 1 cup natural margarine spread (health food stores) 4 eggs 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 3/4 cup strong jasmine tea (2 jasmine tea bags or 2 teaspoons jasmine tea [...]

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I can’t tell you how many times I have knocked my guests’ socks off with this dish. Mole (pronounced Mow-Lay) sauce. Improbable ingredient combo, simple preparation, amazing dish! Ingredients: 1/3 cup olive oil 1 large red onion, chopped fine 8 chicken cutlets (do not pound thinner) 11/2 cups strong jasmine tea, decaf OK (variation: Cranberry [...]

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Now that you know how ridiculously simple it is to make chocolate bark, go ahead and play with all variations: Nuts, seeds, dried fruit: It’s the best! so sorry no chocolate chips here, you must use the chocolate block. You will break it in a snap with a hammer and a knife. Ingredients: 1 pound [...]

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Not so distant cousins of the French Macarons, meringues are ethereally light and fragrant. There are no additions to the basic egg white-sugar whipped mixture that would not be perfectly suitable, only, as always, short and sweet selection please! Coconut, lemon, coffee etc. Ingredients: 4 egg whites Pinch salt Pinch cream of tartar 1 cup [...]

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  My – usually virtuous enough – students have asked me specifically to go all out for my shavouot Demo, starring mostly dairy dairy treats, all those foods we love to hate. “With Cheese!!!”, one of them emailed me in bold print: You asked for the splurge! The good news is, a couple of them can [...]

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  Cold soups would always be a thrill if only they were made with full-bodied and full-flavored veggies, as they are here. No stock or broth whatsoever! Bouillon cubes? Let’s not even go there! There are several variations you might enjoy on this theme, keeping as always a short and sweet ingredient selection: Broccoli, spinach, [...]

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  Beautiful enough to use as main course. The stuffing takes only a few minutes to make and freezes very well, so you might consider doubling the amounts and freezing the unused part for another meal. It will be suitable (minus the cheese) to stuff thinly pounded chicken cutlets too, using the same instructions as [...]

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  Excerpted from  my new cookbook, The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen. Waldorf in a dish signals the presence of apples, celery, and nuts. Besides these constant trademarks, there’s so much you can do with a Waldorf salad, so let’s start with my favorite, then take it places! Passover: Adjust the dressing ingredients using what you [...]

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