Shawarma seasoning is easy to make at home bringing Middle Eastern flavors right to your kitchen. Use it on chicken, turkey, and lamb. Shawarma is Israel’s most popular street food. In fact, turkey shawarma is so popular that Israel eats the most amount of turkey in the world per capita. Which by the way, happens …
This pumpkin pie spice or pumpkin spice brings fall flavor to anything you add it to. Use it in baking, mix it into your coffee, or sprinkle it over nuts. Pumpkin pie spice used to just be used for making pumpkin pie but now it is used in pumpkin muffins, pumpkin donuts, pumpkin bread, pumpkin …
Creating your own colored sugar is fun, easy, and simple. It’s a great way to add your own beautiful colors to cookies, cupcakes, and more. Making colored sugar at home gives you a lot of control so you get exactly the color you want. Just a drop of gel food coloring can give you a …
Lemon sugar is a flavorful way to repurpose lemon peels. Use it any way you’d use regular sugar to brighten up drinks and baked goods. Lemon sugar is a great way to use lemon zest. Before squeezing lemons for lemonade I peel the zest off. Then I use it to make lemon extract …
Dairy free ranch dressing is perfect as a dressing on salads, wraps, burgers or to dip veggies, fries, chicken wings, onion rings, chicken fingers, and hushpuppies. Really the possibilities are endless. Ranch dressing is one of my favorite dressings. I love its creamy and slightly tangy flavor that seems to go with just about …
Salsa Roja is an authentic Mexican spicy salsa made with tomatoes and chilies. Use it to top tacos, grilled meats, or to make eggs. Salsa roja, meaning red sauce – as opposed to salsa verde or green sauce – is a popular Mexican sauce. It is used to make most dishes in traditional Mexican …
Learn how to make apple cider vinegar at home with this easy recipe. All you need are apple cores or scraps, water, sugar, and a clean jar. When it’s ready you can use it for recipes or it’s many health benefits. Apple cider vinegar is known for it’s abundance of health benefits and uses. It’s …
Lemon extract is a great way to add flavor to your foods. While it is expensive to buy, it is easy and cheap to make quality extract at home. It is great to have on hand and a little goes a long way. In Israel you can find lemons pretty much everywhere. It is …
Israeli grilled chicken seasoning, known as grill oaf in Hebrew, is one of my favorite spice blends. Use it as a spice rub for the grill or sprinkle it over chicken and roast it in the oven. The name would imply that you put it on chicken before you grill it and so would the …
Schmaltz is rendered chicken fat and has been essential to Eastern European Jewish cooking for centuries. It is traditionally used for frying or spreading on bread but you can use it for so much more. Where Christian communities often used lard in their cooking like Southerners still do today, Jew’s had to improvise. So, …
