Zahav Restaurant: The Gold is in the Lamb

Photo by Mike Regan courtesy of Zahav Restaurant

When the food trend movers and shakers predicted that the cauliflower is going to be the new brussels sprouts, they must have been thinking of Chef Michael Solomonov's fried cauliflower mezze with labne (strained yogurt), chive, dill, mint and garlic sauce.

Oven 'Fried' Buffalo Chicken Wings

I can't even tell you how often I made these oven 'fried' chicken wings over the years but I never get around to sharing them here. Something about summer though, makes me want to make these easy to toss together wings even more often. Now with The World Cup in Brazil (Go USA!) you won't believe how many batches we devoured during the tournament and we still have the round of 16 to go.

Halva Stracciatella Ice Cream

Two years ago, I turned up my nose at the sound of this new to me trend, the halva ice cream. Endomela (in Hebrew: None-Like-Her), an ice cream shop in Acre, Israel, owned by the infamous Santa Claus like bearded Uri Jeremias (nicknamed Uri Buri), was among the firsts leading the trend.