Category Archives: Pasta Recipes
Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower and Bread Crumbs Topping Recipe. Gluten-Free Variation
Posted on 13th of February, 2012 by Lévana
I love the robust flavor of cauliflower, and the roasting intensifies it even further. I use frozen cauliflower, as it is already cut, cleaned, and every bit as delicious and nutritious! Attention Gluten-Free readers: This is for you too! Although this dish needs no help from the usual pasta suspects...
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Spaghetti and Meatballs Recipe: Gluten-Free Friendly, and Kids-Friendly!
Posted on 17th of October, 2011 by Lévana
We all used to pile into my mother-in-law’s small apartment for her famed dish and always lied to her that somehow ours didn’t come out as good as hers: Anything to have her make a vat of it, which would disappear in minutes. All the children in our family...
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Soba Noodles with Wild Mushroom Sauce Recipe
Posted on 7th of September, 2011 by Lévana
Guys, here’s what I do, and this is really all it takes. I buy porcini powder online, just to make sure I get the best price, a whole pound of it. It doesn’t really need a kosher certification, but it just happens to have one. It will at first seem...
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Pasta with Roasted Garlic Dill Sauce Recipe
Posted on 16th of June, 2011 by Lévana
Delicious, and a snap to make! You could easily make this dish gluten-free: Rice or buckwheat noodles will taste just as delicious: that’s what I use, and not only because I like tolimit my gluten intake, but becasue I love to explore with the whole gamut of grains. So many...
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Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli Recipe
Posted on 30th of March, 2011 by Lévana
Comfort food at its best and easiest. And healthiest: We grew up on this kind of dessert my mother, an ingenious cook if I ever met one, used to whip up at the drop of a hat, for children big and small. Do look for orange flower water, which is...
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Filed under: Almond Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Gluten Free Recipes, Kosher Ingredients, Kosher Natural Foods, Kosher Recipes, Moroccan Recipes, Pareve Recipes, Pasta Recipes, Pudding Recipes, Sephardi Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes, Vermicelli Recipes
Yerushalmi Kugel Recipe
Posted on 27th of January, 2011 by Lévana
Yerushalmi Kugel A great Jewish favorite, and a real showcase in Israeli synagogues at Kiddush time: I have seen two burly men flip an enormous pot of it onto a gigantic counter, then slice it across its whole diameter in two or three places with a knife about three feet...
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Upcoming Cooking Demo in NYC: Monday January 24th: Pasta Party the Gluten-Free Way!
Posted on 20th of January, 2011 by Lévana
I too used to watch longingly everyone enjoy their pasta, while I watched helplessly, or worse, decided to bite the bullet, have the wheat pasta dishes and pay with a few days of discomfort. No longer, no sir! Here’s a menu that will make my point in full, as delicious...
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Moroccan Fava Bean Soup Recipe
Posted on 6th of October, 2010 by Lévana
There is no substitute for these funky and incredibly flavorful beans. You will find them in Indian, Italian and Middle Eastern Grocery stores, or simply go online: well worth looking for. You will love them, so get a nice supply and store them in glass jars. Don’t get it into...
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Filed under: Fava Beans Recipes, Gluten Free Recipes, Kosher Recipes, Moroccan Recipes, Pasta Recipes, Soup Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes
Mock Crab Pasta Salad Recipe
Posted on 8th of July, 2010 by Lévana
Several of my favorite summer flavors are in! The only cooking that goes on in this dish is boiling water to soak the pasta. Although it is delicious with rice noodles, if you are a diehard wheat pasta lover, simply substitute your favorite pasta for the rice noodles, and proceed...
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Filed under: Fish Recipes, Gluten Free Recipes, Kosher Recipes, Pareve Recipes, Pasta Recipes, Pasta Recipes, Salad Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes
A Table of Contents: A Cold Vegetarian-Fish Shabbos Lunch
Posted on 3rd of May, 2010 by Lévana
As often when we host lots of singles, this week I went Shabbos-shopping with a totally open mind. Since I was right in the area of Whole Foods on 97th St and Columbus Ave, I thought to myself, surprise me, and decided my lunch menu will be predicated on my...
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