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Chorba North African soup

Chorba Soup

I live in Southern California, Temecula Valley between San Diego, Los Angeles and near Palm Springs. The decor is very similar to Morocco (North Africa): dry hills, palm, dates, avocados, almonds, and olive trees. The weather is beautiful all year long with hot summer and cold winter nights. Like in Morocco [...]

Soupe du Jour:How about a super-food soup to be healthy in January (and all year long!)

Jujube soup

Two years ago thanks to Eva and Ron (my favorite vendors-farmers at Temecula Farmer’s Market – Tretowan Organic Farm, Rainbow, CA) I discovered Jujube fruits for the first time. When I found out about this amazing super-food I posted a post about these fruits in order for my readers to know [...]

Soupe du Jour: Red Lentils soup

Red Lentils SOUP

red lentils sweet potatoes soup

I have been making this soup for years. I kept the original recipe in my notebook unforunately, I do not know the source, it was back when I was living in NYC. But if you know me you know that I never follow a [...]

Leftover Beans, Lentils and Chicken Soup!

Warm days are on their way in Southern California! We need it. Until that we struggled with cold temperature, rain….

Soups, pots of beans, lentils and currys have been on the menu lately.

Having leftovers kidneys beans, lentils and chicken I could not resist to make this healthy and delicious soup. The velvety [...]

Mexican Chicken Soup for the Soul!

Rain. Sick kids at home. Wait. I need some comfort food. Never had Mexican chicken soup before we moved to California, now I can’t leave without it!

This soup is so easy to make, the flavors of the chicken and vegetables, the cylantro, the softness of the avocados and the crunchiness of the [...]

A Vegan Experience by Lauren Johnsen Wall ( Part 2)

I hope you enjoyed Lauren’s Vegan experience as I did. I guess this article gives us a better idea about this diet that is still a mistery for most of people.

As you can see her total Calories was less that 2000 which is good for a woman. When looking at [...]

A Vegan Experience By Lauren Johnsen Wall ( Part 1)

Last May, Lauren joined my intimate hands-on Cooking Class : “From Market to your plate”. She e-mailed me because she wanted to join my Provence cooking class (held in Murrieta that was unfortunately canceled). In fact, in her e-mail she told me that learned about me and my cooking classes from a Vendor (Jerry who sells amazing kumquats and avocados [...]

From Market to table…. was a success!

After a terrible and exhausting week, with non-stop heavy rain, flooding and roads closed it was hard to imagine,  I will be able to conduct the “From Farmer to table: Farmer tour and Organic Cooking class”  at Mary Phillips Senior Center Temecula. Because the class was sold-out within a few weeks, I was determine to [...]