It’s been one months since my wedding. While it feels too early for any solid conclusions about the institution of marriage, there’s one thing I know for sure and that is that dinner is important. Growing up, I took eating at the table for granted. My mother was a full-time home-maker, not just a...
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Ingredients: 1 litre milk 2 tablespoon coacoa 5 tablespoon sugar 100 gr. dark chocolate 5 pods cardamom 2 cinammon quills chilli powder 1/3 cup grand marnier Directions: 1. melt chocolate with 1 cup milk in a bain-marie. 2. boil the rest of the milk in a saucepan 3. add melted chocolate, coacoa, sugar and...
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This is a modest list of favorites. I don’t pretend to include every culinary surprise that winter has to offer, and there are, admittedly, a lot of amazingly delicious options. I like: Avocado. An excellent source of “good” fat, they say, but this is also, one of my favorite winter foods. A bountiful tree...
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Winter is as usual late to arrive to my small part of the world, but in these early days of December, I’m ready for my winter shopping. Statement boots. Grey suede (the ones in the picture are Missoni). Red hot chili leather. Something in cream/off-white too. Knee-high with killer hills. Simple, classy white buttoned-up shirts. I...
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1) Take a breathe before I speak, or act. 2) Eat less, buy less, waste less. 3) Calm down, for heaven’s sake. 4) Count my blessings, every day. 5) Cook every day. 6) Grow some food. 7) Write. Just write. 8) Finish paying for the past. 9) Love my husband. He’s the one. 10)...
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My husband and I went to watch A Christmas Carol this week. This animated cinematique adaptation to Charles Dickens’ novella  is probably one of the least festive Christmas movies I’ve ever seen. Ebeneezer Scrooge here is a dark, ugly figure and the adaptaion as a whole is gruesome, ghastly affair. (Very unfit for children, actually, despite...
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1) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete DVD Collection 2) The Seamstress: A Novel by Frances de Pontes Peebles 3) Kenwood kMix Food Mixer 4) Red hot knee-high boots 5) White frame sunglasses
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I love the winter holidays, all of them. This time of year reminds feels enchanting and wild, with Hannukah candles at home, Christmas lights in every window in downtown Haifa, and Eid al-Adha fires in the Carmel mountain villages. I love fire, and my soul makes no distinction between the variants of the different...
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I’m a big fan of meals that require short preparation. I don’t mind if the cooking itself, on the stove or in the oven, takes long time, as long as the chopping, dicing, melting, squeezing mixing and stirring is minimal. While the food is cooking, I have time prepare other dishes, do the laundry,...
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  Preparing fresh vegetables, as opposed to cooking their frozen version, is easy, quick, healthier, and even a bit sensual. My favorite method is grilling the vegetables in the oven. I first cut them to big chunks, then rub them with olive oil, salt them, and add a single herb or spice for each...
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Last week my fiancé came back from the market with a bag of frozen vegetables. He noticed that I spend a lot of time in the kitchen cutting fresh vegetables, and thought that buying them pre-cut and chilled would save me some time. The frozen mix included broccoli, cauliflower and baby carrots. These vegetables...
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“Women’s willingness to tolerate discomfort, even pain, in the service of fashion is often chalked up to the desire to attract a mate or to rise a step in the social hierarchy. But today’s extreme fashions may have more to do with expressing power and control — control over one’s own body, and the...
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