My new blog!

Hey friends,


Welcome to my new blog. This is intended for all varying types of foodies. The foodies who only eat at the best restaurants, the foodies that spend their days and nights cooking, and the foodies that order pizza every day. Yeah you. We all have one thing in common: our love for food. So fuck the whole I don't cook thing you have going- its not very pretty on you. Cooking is the new basketball. Its sexy, fun, and gets you smelly. So get your hands dirty and go for it. One idea I've been playing with is meals in 20 min - for the on the go college student or working mother. I mastered the art of 20 minute meals my senior year of college when I had exactly 20 min to cook.. and eat. Fun.


But the point is, anyone can cook. I'm sick of hearing my friends say they can't. All you have to do is take a bunch of foods you like, throw them in a pan with some oil, and go nuts. The rest of this blog follows that golden rule. Only in some more detail. But the rule persists- regardless of the ridiculous hilla- concoctions, the rule is, once again- take a bunch of foods you like and throw them together. Don't think. Just cook.

And never stop singing. Or dancing.


Enjoy.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Thanksgivinggg made simple. and sweet.

American food is not my forte.  My moms family is from Yemen, my dad was born in Morocco.. they met somewhere in Israel.. so my food tends to reflect those general areas of the world. 
But it is our favorite all American holiday where we celebrate consumption, excess, and genocide.  So this afternoon.. I got in the spirit and got baking. 

Cranberry Sauce and Zucchini Bread: 

Cranberry Sauce:

Ingredients:
Fresh Cranberries (1.5 lb)
Brown Sugar (1.5 cup of sugar, add more to taste)
Ginger- grated (SHOCKING)
Orange zest
Lemon zest
Cloves (2) as my mother says "For aroma!" (Fun fact: the word in hebrew for a clove is tziporen, literally, a person's fingernail. Mmmmmmmmm. 

Directions:
Rinse cranberries
Cook the cranberries on a very low heat
Add immediately sugar, ginger, orange zest and lemon zest
Cook for 20 minutes
Taste
Make additions :) cinnamon perhaps? Go for it. Pomegranate juice, why not?


ZUCCHINI BREAD:
I learned how to make zucchini bread today.. well I've made it before.. but sometimes I just do what I'm told, other times I engage myself more closely with the food.  My best friend Sammy is a chef of the sort that you don't meet every day.  Bakes his own breads, pastas, challah to die for, german dumplings.. the list would literally take me a decade. Anyway, we used Paula Deen's recipe, and its fabulous.. and oh, so easy, even a baketard like me did it.


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