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All-the-Good-Stuff Broccoli Salad

October 10, 2025

 When the local grocer puts an enormous box of gorgeous broccoli out front for 69 cents a head, you put your brainstorm beanie on & hope for florets of inspiration!

This composed salad recipe is my best broccoli effort to date.

To make it, you’ll  1) roast the florets.

 

2) oven-crisp + maple-glaze chickpeas

3) mix in chopped nuts, dates and red onion, and 4) toss everything together with a creamy lemon tahini dressing. For best texture, be sure to eat the salad right after adding the chickpeas.  And for more stalk-starring deliciousness, try our Creamy Broccoli Cheddar and Ham Soup. So good!

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Date & Cardamom Spiral Cookies (Kleicha)

May 19, 2023

Kleicha (various spellings) is ubiquitous at religious holidays and special occasions in the Middle East. There are many variations of recipes for the pretty roll-ups of crispy yeasted dough around a smooth date filling. But the cookies always include dates, cardamom, and sometimes nigella (often labeled Black Seed or Kalonji in Middle Eastern grocery stores.)  I love the savory pop of nigella seeds, so included them here. And while some kleicha recipes start with date paste, using pitted dates cooked to jammy consistency yields best flavor.

But which dates to choose?

At the recent TuttoFood exposition in Milan, Italy, I was delighted to find that dates were the featured ingredient in the expos creative cooking competition. Talking to representatives from  Saudi Arabia’s National Center for Palms & Dates I learned that while Continue Reading…