Milk and Orange Pudding/ Balouza

This is an easy dessert to make and it looks very beautiful if you use class serving cup. It is better to let this dessert rest for 8 hours in the refrigerate before serving it.  You can replace the orange juice with strawberry juice or mango. For the milk pudding: 4      tablespoons cornstarch [...]

Fig, The Fruit of Mythology

I just got a box of fresh figs, other women get perfume and jewelry for gift and I get food and I  LOVE  THAT. A gift that I can enjoy and savor.  I took the box of figs and hid them in the back of the refrigerator so my husband can not find them. In [...]

Um Ali, It is Bread Pudding or Is It a Woman? Read On…

This bread pudding is an Egyptian dessert that can please any palate.   As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of all invention. As the story goes, Um Ali, which means the mother of Ali in Arabic, was a life saver for her village and for all dry bread. The story goes, that during [...]

Cooking Lesson/5 Pomegranate Walnut Sauce and Figs Walnut Strudel

Pomegranate Walnuts Sauce Makes 3 cups 6        tablespoons olive oil 1        large onion, finely chopped 4        cloves garlic 1        tablespoon fresh ground coriander seeds 1        tablespoon fresh ground cumin seeds 1        cup coarsely chopped walnuts 1/2   [...]

Vegan Creme Caramel, yes vegan…

Vegan Creme Caramel make 6-8 serving 3              cups almond milk 4              tablespoons corn starch 1  1/2      cups sugar 1/2        candied orange peels, or orange mamalade* 12            ounces firm lite tofu 8 ramekin cups -Preheat the oven to 375 F. -In a heavy saucepan bring 1 cup of water with 1 cup of sugar to a [...]

Give Me Chocolate Or Give Me……

We all have our own variety of “comfort food,”particular items or dishes that calm our nerves. Mine is chocolate. To be more specific, dark chocolate.  I can be in the worst mood ever, but after a few minutes of intake of the magic food, I’m transported to high levels of ecstasy.  On those occasions when [...]

Ginger, One of My Favorite Roots

Like many cooks, when I look in my pantry I find food that I’ve collected somewhere but for the life of me I don’t remember what it is or where it came from.  It is stuff I don’t have the heart to throw it away, but I’m a little bit afraid to investigate to see [...]