Summer In Tel-Aviv Cooking

The 12 cheeses I brought home with me were gone quickly. Before they did I tried imitating the three fromages with a poached pear tartine at home, but with five fromages instead. Mom loved it.

Also I brought with me this microwave plaque which supposed to make chips from all sort of things. It wasn’t a big success.. We tried potato and pear but it just took too long and didn’t crisp enough.

Salads and a lot of them. The most Israeli dish ever.

Making our own Masabacha – cooked chickpeas served warm with tehini, lemon, chopped red onions and garlic oil

For my birthday morning I made myself brunch and ate it with my mom at our balcony.

Polenta with poached pear, garlic shrimp and sour cream-blue cheese sauce. A very good way to start the day.

For my friends, at the beach, I cooked butternut squash and cardamom blinis

Pecorino polenta

Gil and Tamar eating the blinis

With Canadian Maple syrup

The daily dose of sunset at the beach

Eggplant beef stir-fry

Making zucchini latkes with a lot of red onions

One side

Fried golden

To feed the vegetarian crowd

Orange lentils, carrots and butternut squash pot

A whole vegetarian meal for lunch

Quick dinner of pork with spinach

Cooking pearl onions and champignons

With some bacon and the leftover of the wine sauce from the meal I cooked

Eggs poached in wine, served with the sauce and with quinoa

Trying to imitate the famous recipe of Ouefs pochés Bourguignonne

Pork chop with mango marmalade

Another pork chop, this time with honey mustard glaze

With potatoes

And chives on top

Making pancakes for a Saturday brunch

Two pans to double the speed.

Pancakes! They reminded me that I prefer crêpes.

Melon-Ginger frozen shake

Frozen Shrimp and Calamari for a delicious quick dinner

Frying onions

Adding the calamari and shrimp with garlic oil and lemon and some chopped parsley

All goes inside a warm pita bread. Perfect dinner.

I was asked to make Chraime (spicy fish) for the holidays. like I cooked for my Moroccan friends.

Onions cut to little squares

Into the pan with some oil until transparent

Adding spices: Thai red curry paste, hot and sweet paprika, whole chilies..

Frying the spices well together

Filling with water, when it’s boiling adding the fish and some chilly oil.

Served with coriander and bread

For the same dinner we also made few salads: bulgur (wheat) with granny smith, plums, mint, lemon and red onions.

Endive salad with fresh figs, blue cheese and walnuts

Green salad with pomegranate and mustard vinaigrette

A very good Israeli wine with it – Kitron

I was peeling a lot of pomegranate this September..

I like it, they like it so everyone’s a winner

Just toss it over anything!

Prime Rib dinner

Was pretty good! After this last meat dinner we found this is is the way to go – cook our own steak dinner.

Saturday crêpes brunch. This time – 100% whole wheat and it was a success!

As thin as possible!

Some were eaten with ham and cheese

And some sweet with figs, honey and halva

Israeli breakfast with a salad and fresh white cheese with olive oil and za’atar

Pasta with spicy green curry and calamari

For the next meal we needed a lot of herbs: coriander, parsley, mint and basil.

We made three different chimichuris – I took the basil and chopped with with lemon zest, chilies, onions and olive oil. It became pretty spicy.

My mom made the other two chimichuris to go with the BBQ assado, my dad grilled the meat and vegetables

Hmmm mushrooms on the grill. You can read my last post about the dessert I baked for this dinner – Tarte Normande.

Another crêpe morning – this time a normal white wheat flour and lindt chocolate melted on top – delicious! (There was dulce de leche also of course)

Eaten rolled or folded with Ben & Jerry’s tub.