DISCOVER NAVA'S KITCHEN

Looking for a vegetarian, healthy snack? I've got just what you need. Sweet potatoes are great base for open sandwiches. topped with salads!

I have temporarily adopted a baby girl named Shachar (Dawn) yay! Well, actually, she is more like a 30-year-old young woman, which actually has its advantages. She is toilet trained, able to dress and feed herself. She’s been through adolescence, and has a job. She is funny, smart, and is super techno savvy which is of great help to a dinosaur like me. She is also a millennial... Oh well, I guess you can’t have everything... Like all children, she comes with a set of requirem

This breakfast is vegan and GF My sister rang to say she wants me to make a nice vegan porridge with a nice subtle flavour, not too many flavours in the porridge. I took on the challenge. For me, it’s a challenge because I love to cook the oats or quinoa or whatever ingredients I use for porridge with more than water! I love to add teas, orange blossom water, coco, coffee, freshly squeezed juice and loads more. Off I went to the kitchen and opened the pantry, took out the qu

Happy early Halloween beautiful people! I know people have mixed feelings about Halloween and I appreciate the concerns people have regarding their children taking lollies from strangers. But I am a community person. I love belonging to a community. I love sharing and giving.  For me, the Halloween experience can be turned into a positive exercise in giving and receiving for children. It’s an opportunity to get to know your neighbours and talk to your children about giving ba

My home has been called a commune, a halfway home, the United Nations. You see, having four boys who have travelled extensively and studied abroad at one time and who have made friendships there, there is always a friend or a friend-of-a-friend who is in need of shelter or a Shabbat dinner (Friday night dinner) and there is always a dietary requirement … from being a vegan to having an allergy to one thing or another. This time the allergy is to gluten and tomatoes. In a way

When a family member starts a request with, “I never ask you for anything, buuut…” it means they want me to make something I don’t like, or something that will take forever to make. I knew it was a BIG DEAL when my partner made that preamble, because he doesn’t make requests, EVER. (Yes, he is pretty good, not like the first one.) “Can you, please, make salmon curry for Shabbat (Friday night) dinner?" Salmon? Did he say salmon? I really don’t like salmon, you don’t understand