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"A quick recipe for tasty pita."

Ingredients: hot water, quick-rising yeast...

"Very simple, Asian, and vegan as well!"

Ingredients: chunky peanut butter, fresh ground black pepper...

"I found this recipe on a site that was promoting an Asian-flavored Thanksgiving. Even though we don't really celebrate the holiday per se, we adore sweet potatoes and we love Indian cuisine, so why limit ourselves? The original recipe called for yams, but I subbed in the sweet potatoes. Feel free to re-sub the yams. I also adapted the recipe..."

Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, coconut milk...

"This is my daughter Nomi's all-time favorite way to eat rice. My friend Debbie, who is married to a Persian, makes this for her every time we're over at their house for a meal. I figured I was going to have to learn to make this myself, since Nomi just adores this rice and asks for it every time. It's a little complicated, but gets easier..."

Ingredients: cooking oil, long grain rice...

"This is a delicious and different way to make couscous. For more of a bite, try using diced tomatoes with green chiles."

Ingredients: fresh ground pepper, couscous...

"Israel has a zillion versions of hummous, but this is one version I could only find in the States. This was developed over trial and error (and lots of searching for recipes) until I got it just right."

Ingredients: cumin, ground cayenne pepper...

"When I create a dish that I'm proud of, I put my name on it. I just made this up for supper tonight, as part of yet another diet. Yummy! I made it a little spicer than the rest of the family would like, so I get to eat it all myself!"

Ingredients: cinnamon, curry powder...

"This is ideal for when fresh fruit isn't available."

Ingredients: sweet red wine, oranges...

"This is a staple at our house. We like to eat it by dragging some fresh pita bread through it by hand."

Ingredients: cucumbers, eggplants...

"This is a wonderful salad, good for Thanksgiving but we make it all year round. This is a traditional Sepharidic recipe."

Ingredients: lemon juice, paprika...