Israeli recipes

Some things just don't change, like our excitement to prepare special dishes for our Rosh Hashanah meals.

All you need to turn these soups into a meal is some fresh bread.

These recipes are from the cookbook Carmel Forest Spa Resort: A Love Story, which slowly began to take shape over a number of years.

These are dishes that everyone in the family will love and will add lots of flavor and spice to your Independence Day activities.

This week I’ve chosen to linger with the wonderful holiday feelings and at the same time use up all the leftover matzah in my pantry, before completely returning to the world of hametz.

Let the fruit and vegetables of this special season inspire fresh springtime dishes. You might keep cooking them past Passover and over the rest of the year.

All four of the cakes come out beautifully and so are perfect to serve for Seder or other holiday meals with friends and family.

Let’s examine why oven spring occurs and use this to learn about our dough-preparation technique and perhaps improve on it a little.

These recipes will help you make Purim – and the rest of the year as well – much more fun and tasty.

You can fill them with meat, rice and meat, rice with dried fruit, grains, quinoa and lentils, or any other vegetarian combination you can come up with.

It took me many years until I learned to enjoy the texture of fruit pies.