This braised beef brisket is a flavorful dish that I’m sharing with you here with a fig and red wine sauce. The meat is meltingly tender, and it’s perfect for a festive meal, especially for Rosh Hashanah or Sukkot.

Delicious leek latkes, traditionally served at Rosh Hashanah but perfect for a change from the classic potato latkes of Hanukkah.

An easy recipe for crumbly little shortbread cookies to keep in your notebook. They’re delicious plain, but you can also fill them with jam or top them with icing.

Mozzarella sticks (beignets de mozzarella in French) are sticks of mozzarella, breaded and then fried. Here is an easy recipe for making delicious mozzarella sticks at home. Enjoy them as a snack, as a starter with a good homemade tomato sauce or in a nice salad, for a change from warm goat cheese salad.

A complicated name for the best zucchini fritters you will ever make. They vanish in seconds every time I make them.

Served as a cold starter or as a more generous main, the assiette nordique (Nordic platter) is an elegant dish of smoked fish and salad, served with blinis or toast. Here is my suggestion for the one I like to make; you can adapt it to your taste and to whatever you have in the fridge.

After my asado slow-cooked with onions, here is another version of oven-baked beef short ribs, this time caramelized in a homemade barbecue sauce, American ribs style.

Arancini are little balls that are crispy on the outside and melting on the inside. They’re perfect if you have leftover risotto from the night before, but they’re so good you may end up making risotto just for them! Here’s a vegetarian version with pesto and mozzarella.

Roasted and marinated vegetable antipasti are a staple of Italian starters. Colorful and full of flavor, they also make a great side, especially with a beef carpaccio or a beautiful burrata.

Here’s a quick and delicious recipe for caramelized chicken wings baked in the oven, slightly crispy and irresistible, that kids will love too. They’re easy to make for a weeknight dinner.

The 19 beef numbers, plus lamb and poultry, on a clickable drawing: what each cut is in American and British terms, how to ask for it in Hebrew, how to cook it, and the recipes on the blog that suit it.

Every braid and every festive shape, move by move, in 21 printable pages to keep on the worktop. $6, to support the blog.

These manchurians are Indo-Chinese vegetable balls in an absolutely divine sweet and sour sauce. They’re flavorful, tender, with a texture close to meat, and here everyone loved them! A vegan, parve recipe.

Red lentil dal is a hearty, satisfying vegetarian (and even vegan) dish that makes a complete meal. A pantry-staples recipe of the kind I love, perfect for traveling without leaving home.

Indian-spiced red lentil fritters that are incredibly easy to get right and packed with flavor! A recipe to add to your repertoire when you want a change from falafel or meatballs.

Indian naan. Like many of you, I’m sure, it’s my favorite bread whenever I eat Indian food. These ones are baked in the oven and stuffed with cheese (a dairy recipe).

A variation on salmon maki, California rolls are made inside out, with the nori seaweed on the inside instead of the outside. They’re fairly easy to make.