Recipes
California Wrap … Galilee Style!
Recipes
Fabulous Onion Dip
We LOVE our dips with challah on Friday night! And because we don’t use salt, it’s a challenge to make homemade dips with great flavor. The most important thing I’ve learned to produce flavorful salt free dishes is the ingredients Read more
Recipes
Super Quick Supper for Two
It’s amazing how quickly it becomes dinner time when I’m having a very busy day. So this week I turned to the freezer and the pantry and pulled out those ’emergency items’ that help make a fast, easy and delicious Read more
Torah Wisdom
The Spies Eyes:
Seeing Through Wine-Colored Lenses – Shlach (Numbers 13-15) In Israel, we are ahead of the Diaspora and are reading the story of Moses sending the spies into the Land. Here’s a deeper understanding of the episode from my Rabbi and Read more
Olives and Oil
Nostalgia! – Packing the first tin of Galilee Green Olive Oil at Kibbutz Degania
Back in November of 2013, after picking our own olives in Yanvne’el, we took them to the Olive Press at Kibbutz Degania Aleph which is a short 15 minute drive from our home in Yavne’el. During harvest season they keep Read more
Recipes
Forgot to Eat Breakfast – Eggs – Onions and Mushrooms
This morning we got out of bed and hit the ground running. The post office was picking up our weekly Galilee Green Olive Oil orders and we still hadn’t finished packing them up the night before. By the time we Read more
Recipes
Fabulous French Onion Soup
When you are keeping a kosher kitchen, certain classic recipes present a challenge because we don’t mix dairy and meat ingredients together. French onion soup is usually made with a beef broth, and topped up with lots of gooey mozzarella Read more
Torah Wisdom
Celebrating Shavuot… the giving of Torah at Sinai…
In Israel this past weekend we celebrated Shabbat followed by the Festival of Shavuot. Since Passover, we counted 49 days, and on the 50th day (Saturday night and Sunday) we mark the day that the Nation of Israel stood at Read more
Recipes
Rave Reviews for Roasted Cauliflower
While visiting my daughter and her family in Detroit I was treated to some wonderful meals and I brought home to Israel some of her great recipes. One of her favorite side-dishes to be served with a main course is Read more
Israel
Entire Village Destroyed by Fire in Israel
While storms and flooding devastated homes and took lives throughout the US midwest this past week, fires raged all across Israel. The morning after one of the most devastating blazes (which authorities now are suspecting arson) in the center of Read more