Moroccan Chraimi Fish Recipe

Excerpted from my latest cookbook, The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen. Israelis affectionately called this dish chraimi, insisting that’s what Moroccans call it. (Hello! Never heard of the word in Morocco! Something probably got lost in translation . . .) This is precisely the kind of dish where preserved lemon makes all the difference: You should [...]

Fish Tandoori Recipe

The term Tandoori is Indian and signals the present of a yogurt or buttermilk in the sauce ingredients, which makes the chicken or fish prepared this way incredibly moist and tender, and most importantly, dairy-free and suitable for any kind of meal! I obtain the buttermilk tang and texture by making a soy milk-lemon juice [...]

Apple-Chutney Roasted Salmon Recipe

What makes this dish not a recipe in the strict sense of the term is, I don’t go and make 2 quarts of chutney just so I can use some of it to make a salmon. Rather, I make lots of it, confident I will find great uses for it. For example, this past week, [...]

Pad Thai Recipe

The national dish in Thailand, available at every street corner in every imaginable vari- ation, pad Thai is a delightful stir-fried rice noodle dish including, in any combination, fish or chicken, eggs, vegetables, tofu, peanuts, and the native seasonings—ginger, lemongrass, curry, and coconut: You just can’t miss! It’s a complete meal, and it’s very quick [...]

Salmon with Pomegranate Sauce Recipe

Sweet-and-sour combinations work beautifully with salmon. The onions caramelize and contribute a sweet counterpoint to the vinegar. Another quick and delicious dish, just the way I like it—one pan, one step. Ingredients: 1 whole side salmon, no skin, no bones, about 3½ pounds, trimmed 1 large red onion, sliced very thin (use the food processor) [...]

Salmon Tilapia Nori Roulade with Tahini Sauce Recipe

Don’t let the multiple steps daunt you: They are quick and simple, and the end result is a fun and professional-looking coil, perfect for a first course or as hors d’oeuvre.  You could just as easily make them with 2 colors meat, like ground turkey and ground beef. Not only was it fun to make, [...]

Mock Crab Cakes with Red Pepper Coulis Recipe

Crab cakes and other seafood goodies were always verboten in the world of kosher dining as well as that of all diners who frown at eating seafood, until some inspired professional foodie recreated the texture and flavor with a plain-vanilla-type fish called pollock. It is processed minimally, so I have no trouble using it. Mock [...]

Bison (and all) Burgers with all Toppings Recipe

Please don’t get impatient! there is simply no recipe for delicious and healthy burgers. But there sure is lots of good tips: Lean please! Any meat you like: Bison: Go for it whenever you can get your hands on it: Ideally lean and gamy and very low in cholesterol, and decently priced too: I hope [...]

Baked Fish Sticks with Cocktail Sauce Recipe

  We never knew, or have forgotten, that fish sticks used to be fresh fish, used as we are to encountering them only in the frozen section of processed foods. Rather than zap the infamous fish sticks off the list of healthy foods, why not recast them in a healthy way, prepare them at home [...]

Fish, Kabocha, Kale and Seaweed Stew Recipe

  It doesn’t get healthier than this!  This dish Goes a long way towards illustrating my philosophy of food in nutrition in full: Start out with serious ingredients, and end up with fun, nutritious and delicious dishes! This is a complete meal in one pot. Macrobiotic food lovers will enjoy this no end as well. [...]