• lean1 on March 01, 2020

  I love this book. The recipes are easy, full of flavor, use lots of herbs and spices and remind me of why I love Israeli foods.

Notes about Recipes in this book

• Chicken shawarma rice bowl with quick-pickled tomatoes

  • acwebb2 on May 27, 2025

    This is pretty good and flavorful, but as written I found the chicken to be far too oily. If I make it again I’d probably halve the oil.

• Moroccan spiced shepherd's pie

  • shelbstirr on April 07, 2026

    Yummy twist on a shepherd’s pie! The sliced potatoes are a nice textural component compared to the typical mashed potatoes. Would make again.

• Spiced beef mini burgers with dill yogurt sauce and sumac onion salad

  • acwebb2 on May 27, 2025

    Honestly, this was delicious! I will admit to increasing the amount of cumin and coriander to a heaping half teaspoon each, and increased the amount of lemon juice in the onions. I was a bit skeptical about the red onion salad as I’m not a huge fan of raw red onion, but sitting in the lemon juice really mellowed their bite.

• Roasted garlic & apricot chicken

  • shelbstirr on May 02, 2025

    Very good! I served with some quinoa cooked with caramelized onions and chicken broth, as well as some green beans. Next time I would try chopping the apricots in half just so they could be part of more bites.

• Zucchini latkes eggs bennie with dill labane sauce

  • shelbstirr on February 05, 2025

    Delicious flavor combo! I’m always looking for more ways to eat zucchini. I had some trouble with the latkes sticking/falling apart but I think that could just be user error, would get better with practice!

  • acwebb2 on May 27, 2025

    This was a big miss for me. Perhaps it was my error, but even after squeezing a ton of water out of the zucchini, the latkes were just very mushy. The amount of time they were cooked should have been sufficient, and the exterior was a deep golden brown, but the inside was very unpleasant. They also immediately lost any crisp texture. I ate half of one and discarded the rest.