Freekeh with Oven Roasted Vegetables
Summers in the Middle East are long, hot, and dry, but it's the springtime heat waves and sandy winds that create a major threat to crops...
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Hila
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
Baba Ghanoush
The eggplant is a king in Levant cuisine, we fry it, roast it, bake with it, cook it, stuff it, and pickle it, but we especially like to...
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Hila
- Feb 25, 2022
- 1 min
Breakfast Bowl
Before the full-with-flavors yogurts overtook the shelves in grocery stores - these that already include fruit jam on the bottom of the...
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Hila
- Feb 17, 2022
- 1 min
Lentil Stew
The biblical story of Esav, who sells his birthright to his younger brother Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew, inspired generations of home...
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Hila
- Jan 31, 2022
- 1 min
Tahini Hot Chocolate
We cook with tahini, bake with tahini, incorporate it into sweet and savory dishes, and we also drink tahini! we blend tahini into our...
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Hila
- Jan 16, 2022
- 2 min
Sweet Tahini Spread
I started to sell homemade sweet tahini spreads in farmers' markets in the fall of 2017 when most Americans associated tahini with...
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Hila
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Summer Fruit Cake
My family always loves to end a meal with something sweet, and in the summer, our go-to is usually a fruit cake. Fruit cake is an...
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Hila
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Knafeh
Knafeh is one of the desserts that people in Israel are willing to stand in long lines or drive far to bakeries in Arabic villages. I’ve...
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Hila
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Chicken Shawarma
Shawarma is one of the most popular street foods in Israel and in Levantine Arab countries. The word shawarma means turning- a reference...
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Hila
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Tahini Cookies
Lately, the internet is exploded with sweet baked goods recipes made with tahini. Finally, the rumor that tahini does exist outside of...
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Hila
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Orange Cake
Once upon a time, Jaffa oranges were an icon that was widely associated with Israel. This citrus, named after the historic port city, was...
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Hila
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Mejadra
This stew of lentils and rice is the ultimate Middle Eastern comfort food. The beauty of this dish is in its simple ingredients, which...
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Hila
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Shuk Salad
Growing up in the small town of Rehovot, I often joined my mom on her trip to the local shuk (open-air market). She would speed walk...
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Hila
- Nov 8, 2021
- 2 min
Eli's Tahini Sauce
Everything tastes better with tahini, almost every Israeli claim that. Israeli kids have their first tahini taste in their baby food...
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Hila
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Halvah
Halvah is the famed crumbly dense Arab confection made with tahini and sugar (the word halvah means “sweet”). The process of making...
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Hila
- Nov 5, 2021
- 3 min
Cheese Burekas
Israeli are mad about Burekas - a puff pastry filled with savory stuffing. Stroll down the open-air markets in Tel Aviv or Ramla, and...
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Hila
- Nov 5, 2021
- 3 min
Pita Bread
Pita, or flatbread, is the most common type of bread in the Middle East. I remember baking pita at a very young age on the Israeli...
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Hila
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Classic Hummus
I must confess that I’d never made hummus from scratch until we moved to the US in 2009. Back home in Israel we used to buy hummus at one...
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Hila
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Tahini Loaf
A tahini loaf has come to be the Passover bread in many Israeli households - as one of this holiday’s rituals is to refrain from eating...
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Hila
- Apr 27, 2020
- 1 min
Sweet Potatoes Hummus
Sweet potatoes add a sweet note to our classic chickpeas-based dip and wash it in a light orange hue. Top it with olive oil and dukkah...
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