Month: May 2012

Home Made Cooking

Jachnun – A Yemenite brunch

How I loved waking up on a Saturday morning, to the smell of freshly made Jachnun. Jachnun (ג’חנון) is a Yemenite dish that’s usually made on a Saturday as it needs to spend 10 hours on a Shabbat Plate or in the oven. It is made of mostly flour and even though it’s not too […]

Cakes and Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies & Puffs

My kids wanted to make cookies and I had a bag of chocolate chips so what’s a better way to use the chocolate chips and satisfy the kids than making chocolate chip cookies? Why does the heading of the post say “Puffs”? well…we were being creative 🙂

Tips and News

Food additives, colors and other junk

I used to buy anything that looked good, really! candies, cakes, ice creams, juices…everything, but since I became a mom I also became much more aware of the fact that not every bag of chips that states that it has “No artificial flavors” is actually good for you. Unfortunately, these days it’s harder to find […]

Cakes and Cookies

Ma’amul – Moroccan date cookies

Passover has come and gone and here I was, stuck with 2 packages of pitted dates left from the Charoset (Sweet Date Paste) ingredients. I couldn’t afford to just leave them in the cupboard because I knew I’d soon forget about them. I decided to make Ma’amul! Ma’amul cookies are originally Moroccan cookies filled with […]