
Homemade Italian Breadsticks (Grissini) - Crisp, Easy and Endlessly Customizable
Healthy, crunchy homemade grissini: an easy recipe you can customize with olives, Parmesan or herbs. Perfect for appetizers or alongside a soup or salad!

Healthy, crunchy homemade grissini: an easy recipe you can customize with olives, Parmesan or herbs. Perfect for appetizers or alongside a soup or salad!

If you love chouquettes (and honestly, even if you don’t), you’ll adore these little cheese puffs flavored with herbes de Provence.

With Shavuot just around the corner, here is another easy cheesecake, the no-bake cheesecake. It has a crumbly cookie base topped with a very fresh, egg-free cream cheese filling, and is a variation on the traditional Ashkenazi cheesecake which is usually baked in the oven. You find this cake everywhere in Israel; here is the recipe to make it at home.

This cheesecake (Käsekuchen), a classic of Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jewish cooking, is pure sweetness and nostalgia. It’s the kind of cake you find in grandmothers’ recipe notebooks, in this case, Micheline’s. It rises tall, with an airy texture thanks to the whipped egg whites.


Here is a recipe for focaccia that is as soft and crispy as you could wish for! It’s perfect as an appetizer or to go with a salad, a soup or antipasti. You can top it with whatever you like: it’s delicious with marinara sauce or with garlic and fresh herbs (rosemary, thyme…).



I already introduced you to conchiglioni in this recipe for conchiglioni stuffed with mushrooms and baked in béchamel. For those who don’t know them, they are large shell-shaped pasta made for stuffing. This time I’m giving you a red version in tomato sauce, where the conchiglioni are filled with ricotta and spinach and baked until golden.


Here is a basic recipe (and a childishly simple one) for breadcrumbs scented with garlic and herbs, which will give a taste of summer to your dishes. I use it for Provençal tomatoes, in cauliflower gratin, and I often sprinkle it over my sautéed green beans, a fresh green salad, or even mushrooms or fish.

Here’s a recipe I made to clean out the fridge, and it was such a hit that I’m sharing it with you, because I’ll definitely make it again. Mushrooms stuffed with cheese, a few fresh herbs, and caramelized onions, easy and quick. You can serve them as an appetizer with small mushrooms or as a starter with bigger ones.

The savory cake (cake salé), here with tuna and olives, is a classic you never get tired of and one you can vary endlessly. You can use this recipe as a base and adapt it however you like.

It was while making my famous savory babka that I noticed the filling I had prepared looked strangely like that famous cheese I loved to spread on bread back in France. So without further ado, here is the recipe, ready in no time at all and perfect for cocktail hour.

Little crispy cheese bites with an olive hidden inside, perfect for cocktail hour or to pack for a picnic. They’re delicious and really easy to make, and kids will love helping out.

Hugely popular these last few years, bo bun is a fresh, complete Vietnamese dish that’s perfect for summer. It combines different textures and lovely sweet-and-sour flavors. It’s usually served with marinated, stir-fried beef, but I’m offering you a vegetarian version that’s just as excellent.

An easy, delicious recipe for the famous Russian blinis. They’re thick and wonderfully fluffy (and dairy, so kosher with smoked fish). You’ll never buy blinis again!

Have you heard of babka? Some people also call it Krantz cake. It’s the famous Ashkenazi twisted brioche that has taken Israel, and pretty much the whole world, by storm. After its success in previous years, I’m bringing back this twist on babka in a savory version.



Truffles are probably the easiest chocolate bite there is. You eat them without being hungry (and without end…) and they are perfect with coffee. Here is a chocolatey, indulgent recipe with no dairy at all!
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