Farmers Market Summer Meal
This week’s post is a guest post by Shir Halpern, food writer and founder of the Tel Aviv Farmers Market. One evening at an event in the Farmers Market, Danya and Deanna invited me to do a guest post...
View ArticleGingit’s Chopped Liver and Some Herring
By: Deanna Linder Growing up in the states, to be defined as Jewish, you had to fulfill certain criteria. As in all places and religions, there were different levels of observing and in our community...
View ArticleLentil Cauliflower Picnic Salad
By: Danya Weiner Until a few weeks ago we were living in a steamer, it was so hot outside that my newborn baby and I could not leave the air conditioning until six in the evening. During the holidays...
View Article“44” Restaurant-Tel Aviv’s Best Kept Secret
By: Danya Weiner Mine and Deanna’s birthdays are two weeks apart, and each year to celebrate, instead of buying gifts for one another, we go out to a nice restaurant. Come mid-October, just before our...
View ArticleBeet and Yogurt Salad
By: Danya Weiner As a food photographer I am inherently attracted to the sensuality of food. There are those foods which make my job more difficult, and those foods, like beets that make me excited to...
View ArticleAntipasti Couscous Salad and a Happy New Year
With barely any sleep and back to work so soon, I don’t get the chance these days to look back and think (what’s that?) about the past year. And what a year it’s been. So here’s a look: On the personal...
View ArticlePasta Salad and a Pray for Peace
Its really hard to write in days like this. The reality that we live in here in Israel is really absurd. This blog has never been a political one, and will not be one, but to ignore the current...
View ArticleRoasted Vegetable and Beluga Lentil Salad
Whenever anyone meets us (as a couple), and they find out what I do, the average first response is- “Wow, you’re a lucky guy, she must cook all the time”. And always the answer is, “actually, not...
View ArticleCobb Salad
Salad. It’s one of those foods where it all depends where you are in the world to understand the meaning of the term. Let me explain. Fifteen years ago, on my first outing with my then boyfriend, now...
View ArticleCrunchy Cauliflower Salad
Anyone who knows me, anyone who has read this blog, or even anyone who has sat with me at any sort of meal knows that I’m a carbs girl. Bread, pasta and pizza are my favorites, and never would...
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