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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 when [...]

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 about [...]

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 recipe. [...]

Sun chokes and Almond dip

jerusalem artichokes or sunflower chokes

I discovered Sunflower chokes recently and I fall in love with this vegetable root right away. Sun chokes (called also Jersualem artichoke or sunflower chokes) look like ginger roots and have a sweet, nutty flavor, similar to water chestnuts. This is a very versatile food. It can be [...]

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 the [...]

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 at [...]