Tag: cinnamon

Easy Chicken Salad with Tahini Dressing (Vegetarian Option)

For years, I didn’t eat lettuce.  Nor would I touch cinnamon or cilantro.  I still don’t eat bananas, yet all of these flavors are on our three year old’s top ten list.  We can hardly get a lettuce from the store to the fridge without him asking for a leaf or two.  I’m not sure how or when I started to eat lettuce, but I am pretty sure my wife’s [...]

6 May, 2013 // By : // 85 Comments

[Recipe Redo] Chili Con Carne

In making chili con carne this week, I took a look at the recipe I posted when I was just three months into writing This American Bite. I read the recipe and I realized how much I have grown as a food writer and a cook. Beside for the fact that the original recipe is long and the photograph is terrible, we have cut some of the ingredients from our [...]

2 May, 2013 // By : // 11 Comments

Homemade Taco Seasoning & Vegetarian Tacos

A couple of months ago, I learned Mrs Smith was to retire.  Mrs Smith taught me when I was young, perhaps five or six years old, and not for more than a year or two because we moved to another town.  More than 20 years later, you ask me which of the educators had the biggest impact on my life, I’ll tell you it was Mrs Smith.  She had a [...]

15 January, 2013 // By : // 14 Comments

Easy Apple Pie

I’m not one to make dessert.  I don’t have a sweet tooth and more often than not I’d rather end the meal with a savory note.  That said, I love apple pie.  There’s something about piping hot apple pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream that says “all is right in the world” and brings that ultimate comfort food feeling the coldest of nights.  I love the creamy texture of caramelized apples [...]

28 November, 2012 // By : // 8 Comments

Green Shakshuka for Breakfast

As we stroll into the second half of 2012, I share this milestone with you – this is my 50th blot post.  It has been a struggle to write for the last few weeks and my literary inspiration has been more technology/social media focused recently and this did not seem like the platform for that!  Excuses aside and I am getting back to it.  This weekend we host our first [...]

4 June, 2012 // By : // 16 Comments

Chili Con Carne – Inspired by Jamie Oliver

MAY 2013 Update This recipe has been simplified and revised. Please see my updated post for this chili con carne recipe. About 18 months ago, friends of mine from London visited our Jerusalem home and I offered to cook them anything they wanted – my “thank you” to them for making the trip.  Without skipping a beat, my buddy said “you’ve got to make your chili con carne”.  My wife [...]

17 January, 2012 // By : // 2 Comments

Chocolate Avocado Mousse with Fresh Raspberries (Dairy Free)

When you pick a spouse, you pick a partner for life.  You pick someone to share the smiles and the tears with, someone that will be your rock when you need it, and in turn you will be their rock too.  Often, you pick someone with similar interests so you can spend the weekends hiking, dancing, gaming or movie-watching.  I picked a spouse that loves to cook.  

18 October, 2011 // By : // 15 Comments

Guest Post: I don’t bake coffee cake.

I don’t bake cakes.  I cook.  I don’t like to bake because I like to be free from direction in the kitchen.  For some, cooking a science, for me, it’s an art, and I have learned the hard way that backing science without weights and measures is dangerous.  I do, however, appreciate cake – lemon cake, chocolate cake, coffee cake and even fruit cake – and am lucky to have [...]

16 September, 2011 // By : // 1 Comment