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		<title>vegan glutten free banana cookies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Danya Weiner]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banana]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My little brother Allon lives in Paris. He moved there a few years ago in order to do his post doc at Pasteur institute. For a couple of years he lived alone in a tiny apartment, studied French and tried to connect to the Parisian life. It wasn’t easy for him, living in paris sounds very romantic but being a stranger in a foreign country is never easy. The big change came when a year ago he fell in love. Louise entered his life and suddenly the cliche of being in love in Paris became his reality. Allon and Louise share a love for good food. Allon always said that until Louise entered his life, going into a fromagerie was a very frightening experience. He really had no clue which cheese to buy (he still doesn’t). Now when they enter the cheese shop it is like entering into Louise&#8217;s zone. She knows exactly what to buy, what to tatse and which cheese from which region is the best. The girl knows her cheese! When Allon comes to Israel she picks a special cheese for each person in the family, and she is always spot on. Allon and Louise also share [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Confetti Cupcakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2015 21:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanna]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to US!!! This year the blog is celebrating six years. Six years of recipes, of stories, of photographs, of sharing. We thought this was the perfect time to share this recipe. A real favorite of ours. We first got the idea from our friend Michal, who makes the most perfect layered version of this cake. We like to do things a little easier, and when you make a cake for your own birthday you want it to look good and taste good, but who really has the time to put so much energy into a layered cake. So we made these confetti cupcakes, which are the perfect way to celebrate a birthday. Especially your own. *Now is the perfect time to say thank-you. To everyone who has read our posts, commented on them, shared them, tried them, ate them. We love what we do and we really wouldn&#8217;t be able to do it without knowing there are those out there listening to us and trying our recipes. Confetti Cupcakes We gave the recipe here for our favorite way of serving them- as cupcakes, but you can just easily make this recipe into one whole cake. And we served [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Arayes-Kebab Stuffed Grilled Pita</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Danya Weiner]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[kebab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[onions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have an encyclopedia of recipes in my head. I’ve been working in the food industry for the past 15 years and I’ve been collecting recipes along the way. Almost every time I get together with the mothers of my kids friends we end up sharing recipes and I immediately start going through my “recipedia” to find the winning recipe. My categories are divided into quick meals, healthy meals, light meals, and fancy meals. There’s also subcategories of types of cuisines-Thai, Japanese, Indian, Italian, and our family favorite- Arab. I’ve been living in Yaffo for 14 years and those fourteen years have filled my recipedia with lots of amazing recipes from the Arab kitchen. Arab food is part of our daily life. A regular day for us very well might include an after-school stop off at the best hummus joint in the country-Abu Hassan. I buy my fruits and vegetables at a stand where all of the crop is seasonal and straight from the farmers themselves, known as “baladi” in Arabic. Only there can I find fresh zaa’tar, vine leaves, and potatoes still covered from the mud they were just buried in. And when it comes to our sweet tooth- [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Polenta, Almond and Lemon Cake</title>
		<link>https://matkonation.com/en/polenta-almond-and-lemon-cake-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 07:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanna]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[almonds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been blogging now for over six years and have always had the dilemma of how much of my personal life to share. Every time I did share something very personal, like this post or this one, the feedback I got from the readers was priceless and made me realize that our readers have really gotten to know and love us because we share so much of ourselves.  There is something that I feel the need to share and I never found the right time to do it. Now’s the time. Like many other women, I have an eating disorder. I’ve lived with the disorder since the age of twelve, and like many other psychological diseases, this one comes and goes throughout my life, sometimes being completely non-existant, and other times feeling more like my best friend who I really should hate. I’ve done a lot to try to keep it in check. I’ve gone to therapy, I’ve worked on myself for years and now I feel like it’s something I can completely control (when I want to). One of the major game-changers in my life in regards to my disease is the fact that I stopped eating gluten. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Quinoa, Mint and Feta Fritters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 07:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Danya Weiner]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifteen years ago my sister Noa and I went on a trip to Southeast Asia. We travelled to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and our final destination was New Zealand. We thought it was relatively close to where we were. Turns out it was 13 hours from Thailand and whole new world that was waiting for us to explore. You&#8217;re probably wondering why I’m talking about this now. Well, one of the most talked about topics on our trip to New Zealand was how boring it seemed to live in New Zealand. There was never anything interesting on the news, everyone was really content with their life, had time for taking up hobbies like extreme sports, everyone was really thoughtful about the environment and global warming and in general just had the time to enjoy life. But after talking to some of the locals we learned that many of the younger generation of New Zealanders had left the country in the masses in search of a place with more action (notably London). The mundane vibe of the country proved to be hard on the young, who saw through globalization all of the many exciting things were going on in other parts of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pugachas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 07:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Danya Weiner]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before anyone, I had to meet Oded’s (my husband) grandmother and grandfather. Without their approval, our relationship was doomed. Luckily, I passed. Aliza and Naftali, his grandparents, turned into my grandparents. Not long after we met, I was introduced to Aliza’s famous pugachas. I didn&#8217;t get the hype; they were hard and had a strong margarine after-taste. Not for me, I told Oded, who politely told me I would be going against the entire family with my pugacha opinion. A few months back, Aliza decided to make the pugachas with butter, just like her mother did for her as a child in Hungary. And then I was hooked. By random chance one Saturday evening, Aliza sat down and told us her and Naftali’s memories of the pugachas, stories that even Oded never heard. I was left speechless. I knew from that moment that I would have to videotape her, making them and telling those exact stories she had just told me. For days I walked around with the feeling of awe how those cookies had served as something so meaningful in her life, cookies that represent family- a family that once was and disintegrated into the atrocities of the holocaust, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Cream Pie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 07:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanna]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chocolate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pastry cream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you meet people that really make an impact on you. Michal did just that. I met her through Danya. Danya&#8217;s sister grew up with Michal’s sister and when Michal, a former professional basketball player decided she needed photographs for her new catering/baking/not defined company, she turned to Danya. I met Danya the day after she had photographed for Michal and Danya was smitten. She came back telling me all about Michal, how talented she was, how her banana bread was the best she had ever tasted, and just how overall how cool she was. About a month later Danya and I were asked to photograph an article for a local food magazine and they were looking for someone to write the recipes and prepare the food. Danya suggested Michal, and that was how I met her for the first time. From the second I saw/tasted her food I was inspired. I was inspired so much that that article was one of my most favorite I’ve ever styled. Michal had mentioned that day that she was thinking about participating in the upcoming season of Master Chef. We worked together that one day and then the next time I saw her [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Spaghetti Bolognese</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 06:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanna]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parmesan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the last day of summer vacation I took the boys to eat ice-cream. We sat around the table and were devouring our cones. I tried to take a picture for Instagram and I couldn&#8217;t get a good frame. All of a sudden an English-speaking woman came up to us, and so kindly offered to take a pic of all of us together. I was excited because I hardly have any pics with the kids as I’m always on the “wrong” side of the camera. I told her “thanks so much, this will be a great picture of the end of summer, and thank-god its over”. She looked at me and said, “interesting that all Israeli mothers respond the same way when talking about summer with their kids”. I didn&#8217;t know how to answer her. I felt all of a sudden guilt for having mentioned that I was happy that my kids were going back to school. I questioned whether Israeli mothers were just less enthusiastic about spending two months with their kids in the most intense heat than other mother around the world. Are Israeli mothers more complainers than our counterparts in say, Sweden or Canada? Does it have [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Crunchy Cauliflower Salad</title>
		<link>https://matkonation.com/en/crunchy-cauliflower-salad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanna]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Salads]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cauliflower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cranberries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows me, anyone who has read this blog, or even anyone who has sat with me at any sort of meal knows that I’m a carbs girl. Bread, pasta and pizza are my favorites, and never would discriminate a fresh baked pastry. A month and a half ago that all changed. I stopped eating gluten. People that know me know look at me like I’ve gone crazy. You? No gluten? Danya is still surprised every time she sees me. And then comes the question- but why???? The answer is quite surprising, and not your typical no-gluten answer. I don&#8217;t have Celiac or any other type of digestive disorder. I am not allergic or on some sort of health craze. So here it goes. The past few months I worked on my first TV show, a cooking show hosted by the one and only, Shaily Lipa. It was an amazing experience with crazy hours and lots of time to hang out with the people on set. During the actual filming of the show there was a lot of down time. My down time was spent getting to know the girls on set with me- the make-up artist, the hair [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cobb Salad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2015 18:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deanna]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[avocado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bacon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard boiled egg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salad. It’s one of those foods where it all depends where you are in the world to understand the meaning of the term. Let me explain. Fifteen years ago, on my first outing with my then boyfriend, now husband, parents, they took me to a fancy steakhouse in Tel Aviv. The first outing with the rents is always awkward, but being a vegetarian (yes, they knew) at a steakhouse with a limited menu, made it even more. Add to that my broken Hebrew with a waitress whose English was below par, and you have yourself one memorable evening. So when I went to order the Caesar Salad, my husband stopped me in mid-sentence and said to me in these exact words, “Wait, wait, you know that a caesar salad isn&#8217;t really a salad right, its just lettuce and sauce”. I looked at him, greatly for his attempt to clarify, but with a look that said “Thanks love, but I know what I’m doing”. And at that moment I realized that a salad in Israel was far from the salads I was used to in the States. To me a salad is mostly lettuce, some toppings, dressing, maybe some croutons- but [&#8230;]]]></description>
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