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Beet and Yogurt Salad

Wednesday 24 Apr 2013 | No Comments
Filed under: Salads, Side Dishes Tags: beets, mint, yogurt

By: Danya Weiner As a food photographer I am inherently attracted to the sensuality of food. There are those foods which make my job more difficult, and those foods, like beets that make me excited to be shooting them. On a shoot, I am always on the lookout for the sensuality of the food im shooting, and I try to connect to that place in order to create the most appealing shot. For me, it’s not enough that the food tastes good or that it makes sense from a culinary standpoint, but it has to really look good (I know I sound like one of those superficial girls who only looks at hotties). Even the most delicious of foods that looks unattractive has the ability to dissolve all of my inspiration and creativity. I’m completely biased towards shooting fresh, seasonal and beautifully inspiring produce and food. Here’s an example: this past Monday we were shooting for the blog. I was in the kitchen shredding beets. The little speckles of beet juice that were shooting around my workspace...
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"44" Restaurant-Tel Aviv's Best Kept Secret

Wednesday 14 Nov 2012 | 3 Comments
Filed under: Entrees, Restaurant Reviews, Salads, Soups Tags: cilantro, Fish Sauce, Indonesia, peanuts, thai, Vietnamese

By: Danya Weiner Mine and Deanna’s birthdays are two weeks apart, and each year to celebrate, instead of buying gifts for one another, we go out to a nice restaurant. Come mid-October, just before our birthdays, we try to carefully decide which restaurant we want to treat ourselves to. We usually try to go with something culinary adventurous, that we can’t go to with our husbands, who are both culinarily challenged. This year we couldn’t decide where to go, and we almost decided to postpone the celebration due to the lack of plan. On the night we had planned to go out, I was strolling down the trendy “Nachalat Benyamin” street, when I recalled that I had done a photo shoot at a cool new restaurant called 44. I called to make the reservation and the hostess explained that they were having a special evening that night-a Vietnamese grill night-on the outside patio of the restaurant. Total karma. The night was amazing on all fronts. The food was divine, the music (live dj) was spot...
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Lentil Cauliflower Picnic Salad

Thursday 25 Oct 2012 | 3 Comments
Filed under: Salads Tags: black lentils, cauliflower, feta cheese, indian spice

By: Danya Weiner Until a few weeks ago we were living in a steamer, it was so hot outside that my newborn baby and I could not leave the air conditioning until six in the evening. During the holidays (in September) the temperatures went down a little and we started to say that "fall" had arrived. Our version of fall is still quite hot, about 30ºC/85ºF, but it was about time to start enjoying the outdoors a little. For the past three weeks we decided to pack up our family and spend the weekends in different places. First we set up a camping site around Jerusalem hills, the next week we drove up north to a wooden cabin with friends and last week we spent the weekend at one of my favorite places inIsrael- "Chan Beerotaim", a sort of Bedouin camp grounds, near the Egyptian border. This weekend we made a conscious decision to stay at home and try and do nothing. The only thing we had planned was a short walk and picnic with my oldest sons’ kindergarten class. Each family was asked to...
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Gingit's Chopped Liver and Some Herring

Tuesday 4 Oct 2011 | 1 Comment
Filed under: Holidays, Salads, Side Dishes Tags: green onion, herring, livers

By: Deanna Linder Growing up in the states, to be defined as Jewish, you had to fulfill certain criteria. As in all places and religions, there were different levels of observing and in our community it goes as follows; there are the orthodox, who generally stick to their own, there are the conservatives who send their kids to Jewish school, go to synagogue on the high holidays and sometimes on Fridays and there are the reform who go to synagogue only the high holidays. Then there are those who call themselves Jewish, and practice their Judaism only through food- having dinner on the holidays and visiting the Jewish deli. I grew up somewhere in between the last three categories. I went to Jewish school, but only to synagogue on high holidays (if that), and ate a lot at the Jewish deli. For this high holy day, Yom Kippur, I decided to share with our readers some very “Jewish” food. Chopped liver is one of those foods which took me some time to like. I may have tasted it a few times...
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Farmers Market Summer Meal

Sunday 10 Jul 2011 | 8 Comments
Filed under: Main course, Salads, Side Dishes Tags: artichokes, corn, mozzarella, prosciutto, spinach, tomatoes

This week’s post is a guest post by Shir Halpern, food writer and founder of the Tel Aviv Farmers Market. One evening at an event in the Farmers Market, Danya and Deanna invited me to do a guest post on their blog, and I immediately said “Yes”! I met Danya some years ago while working at the Israeli culinary magazine, “Al Hashulchan”. I was cooking and she was photographing, and we found many common passions for food, styling, design, dishes, knives (cooking of course) and food magazines. Any chance I get to have the food I make photographed professionally I jump at; it brings out the visual, creative side in me and allows me to “play with the food”- to think not only about the flavors of the food but also the colors, texture and feeling. Doing this with Danya and Deanna is about as good as it gets- it was an honor for me to cook and for them to do their thing. Even better was that when I got to the studio, they had just finished shooting the cinnamon pull apart bread- and...
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