The new Israeli Kitchen is located at www.israelikitchen.com. I can’t wait to see you there.

It was Friday, and I was cooking for Shabbat in an uninspired way. Just your basic basil/lemon chicken roasted over root vegetables. Israeli salad (plenty of chopped tomatoes and cucumbers, seasoned with salt, lemon juice and olive oil). Choumous, corn salad, a plate of olives and pickles. The guests were a family with three small children. While I kept the meal plain to please the little people, I wanted one sophisticated dish for the grownups.

I opened the fridge and  found two firm, purple eggplants in the vegetable bin. Aha.

Slice, flour, and fry them? Too ordinary.

Ratatouille? Somehow I wasn’t in the mood for ratatouille.

So I searched the friendly Net and found The Eggplant Recipe Database. I adapted this Chinese-ish recipe from it. It’s s sweet and sour, chili-hot and has lots of garlic. My adult guests loved it, and even the Little One, who claims to hate all purple food, ate and enjoyed.

NOTE: Israeli Kitchen has moved. You’ll find the recipe for Spicy Eggplant in Garlic Sauce on my delicious new blog:

www.israelikitchen.com

All the old posts and recipes are there – and new ones, too. See you there!

Bread and soup, soup and bread…that’s dinner around here on winter nights. Everybody wants a hot meal but nobody wants to bother about it too much. Husband might be relaxing with a book – the Little One giggling on the phone with a friend – and I peering earnestly into the screen, too wound up with some project to start banging pots and pans around in the kitchen. What will we eat? Well, bread and soup.

Which I’d cooked earlier, when energy was running higher and there seemed to be more time. I set a plate with two kinds of cheese next to the bread, and call the hungry ones to the table.

NOTE: Israeli Kitchen has moved. You’ll find the recipe for Sourdough Bread with Cornmeal on my delicious new blog:

www.israelikitchen.com

All the old posts and recipes are there – and new ones, too. See you there!

After a successful blogger’s event hosted by Israeli Kitchen in Petach Tikva, we are travelling to Nes Tziona.

Sara Melamed of Foodbridge will be hosting the next Israeli Blogger’s Evening on Saturday, December 26 at 8 PM.

Guest Speaker: Jacob Share of Job Mob.

Join us for an evening of learning, networking, refreshments, and good company.

Who is Jacob Share?

Jacob Share is the job search expert who created the award-winning JobMob at http://jobmob.co.il/, one of the most popular job search blogs in the world, with over 1.5 million pageviews in 2009 alone. The founder of Share Select Media, a company focused on authority blogging, Jacob has also created Group Writing Projects at http://groupwritingprojects.com/, the original home and premier resource of the blogger favorite- group writing projects.

To get the most out of this event, please contact Jacob in advance with questions you have about blogging and he will answer as many as possible at the event. Send your questions (after registering) via a direct message on Twitter (http://twitter.com/jacobshare) or email Jacob at jacob.share@shareselectmedia.com. Include your blog url if you have one.

Advance registration is required.  You will receive confirmation and more details by email. Closer to the event, participants will receive the name and URLs of those attending so you can check out their blogs in advance.

Click here to register for the Israeli Blogger’s Event on December 26 in Nes Tziona.

www.israelikitchen.com

All the old posts and recipes are there – and new ones, too. See you there!

NOTE: Israeli Kitchen has moved. You’ll find my meanderings around Tel Aviv, with photos,  on my delicious new blog:

www.israelikitchen.com

All the old posts and recipes are there – and new ones, too. See you there!

Random House Publishers asked me to review this book, which I was thrilled to do. And as I started going through the recipes, the gorgeous photos, and the stories, I knew I was in for a serious treat.

NOTE: Israeli Kitchen has moved. You’ll find this book review on my delicious new blog:

www.israelikitchen.com

All the old posts and recipes are there – and new ones, too. See you there!

www.israelikitchen.com

All the old posts and recipes are there – and new ones, too. See you there!

These past two weeks, I’ve been wanting to write about apple pie. I used to bake good apple pie – learned from my Mom, who learned from Grandma. Rich, sweet fruit spilling out of a flaky crust…I had it down pat. Thought I still did, although I haven’t baked a pie in while.

Well, if you don’t use it, you lose it. I had no less than three apple pie disasters in the past two weeks. I was demoralized.

These were times for desperate measure. Times when the only thing to do was square the shoulders, starch the upper lip, and make myself some hot chocolate.

NOTE: Israeli Kitchen has moved. You’ll find the recipe Hot Chocolate, and more wry comments, on my delicious new blog:

www.israelikitchen.com

All the old posts and recipes are there – and new ones, too. See you there!