Category: Gluten-free
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Simple Cheesy Zucchini Logs: Gluten Free and Low-Carb
Davida and her friend, Chava, made delicious calzones for Melave Malke a few weeks ago: Davida’s Easy and Delicious Calzones for a Melave Malka Feast. Although the calzones looked and smelled heavenly, Don and I were only able to enjoy them vicariously. Since we are still on low-carb diets, we needed to find an alternative cheesy…
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Simple Chocolate Bark with Flowers and Dried Fruit
Chocolate bark has become one of my favorite simple and beautiful dessert embellishments. This week, I created a sweet and delicious bark that was sweet, bright and beautiful with some surprisingly savory ingredients, as well. I melted a combination of white and milk chocolate and added fresh pansies from my flowerpots, mint and rosemary from…
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Simple Mini Cheesecakes with Gorgeous Garnishes
Shavuos is on its way! Cheesecake is one of the staples of the upcoming holiday of Shavuos, since we are commanded to eat dairy foods at our festive meals (Countdown to Shavuos: Floral Inspirations and Dairy Recipes) on Shavuos. This year, Don and I are still on a low-carb diet. We didn’t want to…
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Simply the Best Caesar Dressing
Caesar dressing takes a simply leafy salad and creates a wow. I have found that if I want to make sure that just about all my dinner guests eat the salad, all I have to do is prepare Caesar salad. Men will eat Caesar salad. Kids will eat Caesar salad. Just about the finickiest eaters will dig in to…
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Asian Red Cabbage Salad…Simple and Wow
Salads should be simple and beautiful. This Asian-inspired cabbage salad was developed by my daughter, Leah, and for the past year has been one of the most popular salads in our home. Red cabbage is such a gorgeous color that it wakes up just about any salad. In this salad, the color and texture contrast…
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Simple and Satisfying Tofu Salad
Tofu is a wonderful ingredient to add to a salad for a satisfying source of protein. Tofu is like a sponge; it merely absorbs the flavor of your marinade. I find that extra-firm tofu is a reliable ingredient for roasting, grilling and sauteing and I use it often. To cut down on cleanup, I simply slit…
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Simple Chocolate Bark with Flowers and Dried Fruit
I love thin and delicious chocolate bark embellished with all my favorites. It is a simple dessert and also makes a perfect garnish for a simple cake or mousse. It is the perfect accompaniment to Simply the Best Flourless Chocolate Cake As your bark background, you can use your favorite chocolate: white, milk or dark. The…
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Balsamic Beet Slaw: Easy, Fresh and Delicious
Leah is our resident vegetarian. She loves to mix up salad ingredients and find her own combinations of vegetables and dressings. As a midnight snack this week, she created this delicious beet salad. I often shred and/or spiralize vegetables and keep them in containers in the refrigerator. I also prepare dressings weekly and refrigerate them in…
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Simple, Creamy and Perfect Homemade Balsamic Vinaigrette
Our favorite dressing is balsamic vinaigrette. Nine out of ten times when ordering salad at a restaurant, we choose balsamic vinaigrette. For the past many years, every time I made a balsamic vinegar-dressed salad, I would take out half the contents of my spice cabinet to dress the salad. A few weeks ago, I took…
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Simple Low-Carb One-Pan Shwarma Chicken with Rainbow Roasted Vegetables
This shwarma chicken recipe transports me to those amazing shwarma places all over Israel. Although the shwarma flavor of this dish is reminiscent of Israeli Shwarma often served in pita or lafa, this recipe is low-carb since the shwarma is surrounded by gorgeous roasted vegetables instead of a bread pocket. This recipe combines the magical…
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Kaitlyn’s Simple and Spicy Roasted Green Beans
I recently hosted Sheva Brochos (wedding after-party with seven blessings) for Gila and Shimshon. I wanted a simple, delicious and green side dish that would stand up well on a buffet. My daughter, Kaitlyn, suggested this simple and spicy roasted green bean recipe. She suggested using Trader Joe’s fresh Haricot Verts (French Green beans). They come in…
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A Simple One Pot Meal: Low-Carb Cauliflower Couscous with Chicken
I am still on a low-carb high-protein diet and I am feeling great. I am always on the lookout for low-carb options that mimic the texture of carb-heavy foods that I once craved. Cauliflower is an excellent ingredient to mimic the texture of rice, potato and/or couscous. I have developed a recipe for cauliflower…
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Simple Celery and Mushroom Crockpot Soup
My kids have been getting tired of all the pureed soups that I have been preparing over the past few months. I have decided to surprise them with a vegetable soup that is not pureed, so that they can enjoy all the different textures of the vegetables. Here is the simple, delicious and low carb…
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Crockpot Orange Root Vegetable Soup
This is one of the simplest soups to prepare and it is a favorite soup classic at my dinner table. It is easily adaptable to any combination of orange vegetables, but the key is the seasoning. It has a unique flavor, thanks to the combination of sweet and savory ingredients. INGREDIENTS 4 sweet…
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Pizza Potatoes
One of the simplest and most satisfying Erev Pesach (Pesach eve) and Chol Hamoed (middle days of Passover) meals for the kids has been pizza potatoes. It is gluten-free and it is not one of those menu items that we prepare often during the year when we have pasta and pizza available to us. But it is a…
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Simple Greek Salad
One of our mainstays for Chol Hamoed Pesach is Greek Salad. I usually serve the olives on the side, since I have olive-lovers and olive-haters among my crew. It really is a main dish salad, very nutritious and filling. Best of all, it is simple to make. INGREDIENTS 1-2 small cucumbers, scrubbed and sliced…
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Simple and Wow! Lady Finger Strawberry Shortcake
Pesach (Passover) is a springtime holiday that falls out in the Hebrew month of Nissan. Our Jewish lunar calendar has a leap month designed to make sure that Pesach always falls out in the spring. This year was a Jewish leap year and therefore Pesach falls out in late April, a full month later on the…
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Simple and Succulent Make-Ahead Brick Roast
We travel to Israel for Pesach (Passover) and I bring my already-prepared meats with us. I kasher (make ready for Passover) my kitchen and ovens for one day and prepare all of my meats, slice them and then deep-freeze them in advance of my trip. It allows me to enjoy the Yom Tov (holiday) time…
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Low-Carb Cauliflower Onion Soup
Don and I are still on a high-protein, low carb diet. We are finding that soup is very nourishing and satisfying, helping us to curb carb-cravings. For these reasons, I try to start a soup in the crockpot just about every morning. I eat the soup as my afternoon snack and Don usually enjoys it when…
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Baked Spaghetti Squash with Sauce and Cheese
Davida and her friend, Chava, made dinner for themselves this week. They looked around the kitchen and found a spaghetti squash sitting on the counter. They roasted it, scraped it, filled it with sauce and cheese and then rebaked it just until the cheese melted. It was a simple and delicious meal, gluten free and kosher…
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Nutty Warm Mushroom Salad
Who says that salads have to be cold? This one is delicious and warm. The interplay between the fresh greens, warm mushrooms and nutty topping is heavenly. To add a bit more pizzazz, the warm mushrooms are combined with lightly marinated red onions. In our family, we have plenty of carnivores and some herbivores. Although…
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Simply Delicious Baked Apples
There are some recipes that are truly simple and easily overlooked. Baked apples definitely falls into that category. They are simple to prepare and can easily become a wow show-stopper.
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Simple and Delicious Low-Carb Basil Pesto
I love pesto served with chicken, fish or pasta. This recipe is simple and beautifully fresh and green. It can be prepared quickly and can really wake up grilled chicken, fish or boiled pasta. It is important to make sure that the basil is dry before preparing the pesto, so that the pesto remain bright…
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Bubby’s Gedemfte Chicken: Stewed Chicken for the Pesach Seder
Every year for the Pesach (Passover) seder, my mother-in-law a’H would prepare her famous Gedemfte Chicken. We all could barely pronounce its name, but we would all so look forward to this delicacy. There was nothing fussy about it. It was simple, it was delicious and it was falling-off-the-bone succulent. During the year, the kids would ask me to…
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Simply the Best Flourless Chocolate Cake
This cake is so simple and decadent. It requires no separating eggs and is delicious. The original recipe was given to me by my dear friend, Rose Feldman a’H, who made this cake for our first Thanksgiving dinner as a married couple, circa 1987. She made it with a glaze and decorated it with chocolate-dipped nuts. Rose’s…
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Simple Low-Carb Broccoli Crust Pizza: Perfect for Passover
Cauliflower rice has become the rage as an ingredient in faux fried rice and as a low-carb pizza crust alternative. As an experiment, I tried similar adaptations of broccoli and have found it to work beautifully. My family is always looking for something delicious and nutritious to eat on Erev Pesach (the eve and day…
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A Simple, Delicious and Beautiful Flourless Fruit Tart
When I entertain, I love to serve a fruity dessert. Few can resist a dessert topped with fresh fruit. Berries are in season and this Pesach (Passover) fruit tart can be made with your favorite assortment of berries and fruit. I made mine using a combination of frozen blueberries, strawberries and cranberries. I topped mine…
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A Rare Treat: Simply Perfect Seared Ahi Tuna
Leah recently prepared dinner for us. It was simple, luxurious and beautiful…and one of my favorite dishes. She created perfectly seared Ahi tuna, rare and delicious. Ahi tuna preparation must start with a fresh piece of sushi-grade fish and must be seared carefully until just rare. If done right, it takes almost no time and…
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Simple Cabbage Kugel
Most Pesach (Passover) recipes are heavy on the potatoes and eggs. I have been trying to discover new ingredients that fit within my low-carb diet that can be used for Pesach (Passover). Cabbage is one of those simple, inexpensive and delicious ingredients that was right under my nose all the time. This cabbage kugel recipe…
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Blackened Atkins Low-Carb Tilapia Fillets
I wanted to develop a delicious low-carb tilapia recipe for our Friday night appetizer as an alternative to the salmon fillets that we have been eating on our new diet. Don will only eat tilapia if is fried and with our new low-carb high-protein diet, there are so few choices for fry coatings. This recipe is simple, delicious,…
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Simple and Passover-Ready Individual Mushroom Onion Quiches
My friend’s daughter, Gila, is getting married and her friends planned a shower for her. I volunteered to make a dairy Onion-Mushroom Quiche. Since the shower guests may be arriving at different times, I thought that it would be best to prepare individual mini-quiches. That way, the platters would look complete all evening and the individual quiches could…