A smooth, flavorful basic recipe for Italian tomato sauce. Just like with bolognese sauce, the secret to a good sauce is a long, slow simmer.

Here’s a very simple sauce made with sesame paste (tahini) that goes beautifully with roasted vegetables like eggplant or Miznon-style whole roasted cauliflower, but also with legumes like red lentils or chickpeas.

After a fair number of so-so attempts and store-bought sauces that were no better, I finally found THE egg roll dipping sauce, just the way I like it. Unlike other sauces, I don’t use fish sauce (nuoc mam). It’s sweet but slightly spicy and goes wonderfully with Vietnamese egg rolls, spring rolls and imperial rolls. Let me know what you think!

Small fresh spring rolls filled with raw vegetables and fresh herbs, to which you can, if you like, add chicken or shrimp. Kosher recipe, parve in the vegetarian version.

Sticky rice is hugely popular in Thailand. Even though it’s made with rice, this is a fruity, refreshing dessert, just right for rounding off an Asian meal. It’s naturally vegan and parve.

This recipe is a great one if you’d like to try cooking with millet. You can serve this risotto as a main course, but it also makes a delicious side for fish, such as meagre fillet in coconut curry sauce.

Love potatoes? After trying this recipe, you’re going to L-O-V-E them. Under a wonderfully crispy crust hides a soft, melting center. You can thank me later.

Here’s a stir-fry of vegetables with Asian flavors that you can enjoy on its own with a bowl of rice, or as a side for Thai-style meat or fish.

Here’s a little cucumber salad you can serve on its own or as a condiment alongside salmon, cold cuts, or a green salad.

I often make pasta on Friday for lunch, with a different sauce every week (unless someone puts in a special request ^^). With spring here, I wanted to try a quick sauce with no cooking and no cheese, namely… zucchini pesto. It was a big hit: it comes together in a few minutes, it’s fresh, well balanced and goes beautifully with pasta. If you love basil and zucchini, I really recommend giving it a try!

Perfect in mini size for a themed buffet, pita bread is very easy to make, wonderfully soft, and freezes well! Here I’m sharing an oven-baked version, but you can also cook them in a skillet.

Hummus - chickpea purée - is one of Israel’s national dishes. You’ll find dozens of kinds in restaurants (some of them - called hummusiyas - serve nothing else!) but it’s so quick to make that I encourage you to try it. Here is a classic version of hummus with tahini, the way we eat it around here. Kosher and parve, naturally.

These steamed buns are unbelievably soft and fluffy. Here’s a detailed, step-by-step recipe for making them at home. You can fill them with anything: meat, fish, mushrooms…! This recipe is kosher and parve.

This cashew cream is the perfect stand-in for classic crème fraîche or heavy cream. Its neutral flavor means you can use it in savory cooking as well as baking. It even works as a spread with drinks before dinner!

A while back, I shared a delicious recipe for pistachio pudding cups that you loved, so here is another quick version on the same principle - a smooth, deeply chocolatey pudding, this time with no eggs and no dairy. Perfect for the end of a meal, a cocktail-style dinner or an afternoon snack.

A great side dish that will win over most zucchini skeptics. Perfect with fish.

Beldi lemons are small lemons, about the size of a walnut, found mainly in North Africa and Israel. Their season is fairly short; I usually find them between December and January. Their thin skin makes them perfect for curing in salt, and they add a lovely fragrance to fresh salads, fish or tagines.

Here’s a different idea for using up a glut of cherries in season, or simply a bag of fruit that’s been sitting in the freezer. You can spoon them over coconut tapioca puddings, ice cream, cakes or cheesecakes.

Carrots with caraway are a Tunisian specialty and part of the traditional kemia (the spread of small appetizers served at the start of a holiday meal). It’s a delicious way to dress up carrots, and it happens to be vegan and parve.

More delicate than its cousin the cauliflower, broccoli doesn’t always get people dreaming. And yet… If you liked the Roasted Cauliflower, here is an excellent, simple recipe. Feel free to add it to your kemia (Tunisian mezze spread) or serve it alongside a baked fish. It’s vegan and parve.

Here’s an essential Israeli appetizer, smoky eggplant with tahini. It’s traditionally cooked over an open flame, which gives it that very characteristic taste. Here we like it with a little tomato, lots of tahini and cilantro. The result is melting and creamy. If you think you don’t like eggplant, give it a chance with this recipe!