Vered Guttman
By Vered Guttman
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Recipes Two Decadent New Year’s Desserts
Passion fruit and white chocolate yogurt mousse. Photograph by Vared Guttman (Haaretz) — Getting ready to ring in the New Year also means we have only one more chance to eat decadent food and drink champagne before a new season full of diets falls upon us. To help you enjoy this time to the fullest, I’ve…
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Food What’s More Jewish Than Chinese Food on Christmas?
Vered Guttman (Haaretz) — My kids love Christmas. It’s the only time of year we eat Chinese food, a cuisine I’m not particularly fond of. But tradition is tradition, and I’m not the one to break the generations-long ritual of Chinese and a movie. This tradition is indeed so well established, that when I called to…
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Food Vietnamese Soup Gets Yiddishe Momme Twist
Pho-chicken soup with kreplach dumplings / Vered Guttman You could always tell the time of year by looking at my Polish grandmother Rachel’s chicken soup: If it was served with bubelach (egg pancakes) or home made lokshen (she used to fry dozens of thin omelets and slice them, very very slowly, to thin lokshen) you…
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Food Eggplant, Labneh and Pomegranate Dip
(Haaretz) — Dip with labneh (sour yogurt cheese) and pomegranate molasses. Yields 2 cups of dip INGREDIENTS 1 large eggplant 4 tablespoons olive oil plus more for drizzling juice of ½ lemon 1 garlic clove, minced Kosher salt to taste 1½ cups Labneh 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses Pita chips or veggies for serving. DIRECTIONS 1….
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Food Eggplant, My Beloved Eggplant
(Haaretz) — Growing up in Israel, it’s natural for me to love eggplants. So much, that I almost take it personally when I hear (all too often) my American friends saying it’s their least favorite vegetable. In my opinion, there are two common mistakes with dealing with eggplants that prevent people from revealing their true deliciousness….
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Food Shakshuka Is Israel’s Summer Favorite — for Dinner
Shiran Carmel/Haaretz (Haaretz) — All has already been written about the famous Israeli breakfast of a large chopped Arabic salad, eggs, labneh, feta and other cheeses, Greek style yogurt and bread: that it’s fresh and healthy, that it’s Middle Eastern, that it’s just too much. Everything was said, except the truth, and the truth is…
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Food My White House Seder
White House Photo (Haaretz) — Cooking for twenty people doesn’t usually faze me, even when it’s for a Passover Seder, but the Seder I helped prepare last night was for Michelle and Barack Obama. After days of long discussions about menu options and in order to add some interest, it was decided that alongside the Passover…
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Recipes Israeli Salads To Kick the Final Days of Winter
(Haaretz) — For the interval between having filled ourselves with hamantaschen and stuffing ourselves with matza brei and matza ball soups, here are three light and airy end-of-winter salads. Carrot ribbons with harissa aioli This salad is a contemporary play on the classic Moroccan carrot salad. The carrots here are raw, and shaved into ribbons;…
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