levana-cooks-perfect-schnitzel-recipe
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In Search of the Perfect Schnitzel Recipe

Schnitzel often doesn't love us back: Too many diners complain that they love it but are disappointed that they get so easily dried out. My daughter-in-law Ruthie makes the best schnitzel but always keeps insisting she does nothing in particular,…
sweet vermicelli
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Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli is comfort food at its best and easiest. And healthiest: In Morocco 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.…
aloo gobi
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Aloo Gobi Recipe with Chutney and Raita

Aloo Gobi is a Indian dish featuring potatoes and cauliflower It is the perfect vegetarian main course: With this beautiful lineup of flavors, I guarantee you will never miss the meat! You will love the way I have accessorized aloo gobi: With…
raspberry vinegar
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Raspberry Vinegar Recipe. Cranberry Variation

Raspberry Vinegar: You will make about 2 quarts in minutes, at a fraction of the price of store-bought. Knock off your friends' socks, and bring them a pint on Purim and anytime. And this is why I love love love a nice large recipe of condiments:…
Chai Mix
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Turmeric Chai Mix Recipe. All Variations

Turmeric Chai Mix Turmeric Chai Mix Aliases Every culture riffs on the basic Indian spice mix, and renames it: in India it is called golden chai masala;  in Israel they use it mostly as the Yemenite sweet coffee spice mix, or Hawayedj…
teriyaki sauce
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Teriyaki Sauce Recipe the Homemade way

Homemade Teriyaki sauce: There is no commercial version that comes close. I live in the vicinity of several Chinese restaurants (who doesn’t?). Every morning I watch the mountain of trash at their back door, and it always includes enormous…
chocolate sauce
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Chocolate Sauce Recipe

No commercial chocolate sauce comes anywhere close to this one. So simple to make, and so versatile. Plus: Dairy-free, and all natural. How can you miss? Serve it on cake or ice cream, dip strawberries and orange slices in it as soon as it…
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Chicken Breasts with Chipotle Mock Cream Sauce. Gluten-Free

I can make a delicious and dairy-free mock cream sauce in meat dishes by stirring in a good quality plain soy or coconut yogurt: Yes: Kosher food has moved up in the world, just the way I like it: Natural! Chipotles are smoked red peppers,…
salsa verde
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Salsa Verde Over Tilapia Fillets Recipe

Salsa Verde Over Tilapia Fillets: Ready in a jiffy. It has just enough kick to satisfy a spicy food lover without being overpowering. If you want something that really tests the spicy limits check out my Charif recipe. The pairing of tilapia…
Frittata
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Frittata Recipe with All the Fixin’s

Frittata That is the Latin answer to our classic omelets: It is an open-faced omelet, about an inch high. Other ingredients mixed into the egg mixture, rather than used as a filling. The batter is poured into a large skillet and placed…
chocolate chip cookies
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My Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

My Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe is in all my cookbooks.     I can never make enough of these; and apparently, neither can thousands and thousands of people. You would think I would get tired of them. Absolutely not! Besides…
quinoa chili
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Oat Quinoa Chili Recipe. Gluten-Free

Oat Quinoa chili is the answer, when beans don't agree with you. For all of us whose love of beans remains, alas, unrequited, let me say you can make a perfect chili substituting oat, quinoa and rice in any proportion for the feisty beans,…