Manuela

Manuela is located inside the Hauser & Wirth arts complex at the heart of the burgeoning Downtown Arts District of Los Angele. The food was amazing and the restaurant is beautiful. There is an outdoor space where they grow their own chickens and herb and vegetable garden. • Garden and indoor photos by Laura Ford; Food photos by Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Time

Purple Broccoli

New purple broccoli in the garden, I'm ready to try this beautiful vegetable. I've found a very simple recipe here. It looks like a perfect combo. Have a great weekend. Xo

Winter Colors Salad

This post is about my dear friend Sharon Haspel Sa'ar amazing recipe Winter Colors Salad. When I saw her post about the salad I fell in-love, first with the colors (I'm a designer after all) then with the ingredients. As you know me by now I like doing things my way. I followed Sharon's recipe, I made the dressing exactly as she instructed, but I didn't have chestnuts, yams or cookie bags. I replaced the yams with small regular potatoes, and added different colored carrots from our garden. I also added cabocha to the mix. I roasted it with the peel, I didn't want it to get dry. When it was ready I added the orange part to the salad. I baked everything at 375ºF for 45 minutes or so in a baking sheet covered with foil. I broiled only the potatoes a little bit longer. The warm salad came out amazing. Thank you Sharon for another amazing recipe. Xo

Note: the link is to a recipe in Hebrew, I'll ask Sharon if I could translate her recipe to English.

What's for dinner

Duck breast and brown rice with orange vegetables, lentils, raisins, currants, dried cranberries and almonds.

My Okra

Okra or Okro known in many English-speaking countries as ladies' fingers, bhindi, bamia, ochro or gumbo, is a flowering plant in the mallow family. It is valued for its edible green seed pods. • Okra is a popular health food due to its high fiber, vitamin C, and folate content. Okra is also known for being high in antioxidants. Okra is also a good source of calcium and potassium. • The products of the plant are mucilaginous, resulting in the characteristic "goo" or slime when the seed pods are cooked; the mucilage contains soluble fiber. Some people prefer to minimize the sliminess; keeping the pods intact, and brief cooking, for example stir-frying, help to achieve this. Cooking with acidic ingredients such as a few drops of lemon juice, tomatoes, or vinegar may also help. Alternatively, the pods can be sliced thinly and cooked for a long time so the mucilage dissolves. The immature pods may be pickled. —Wikipedia

Maude

Maude is a tiny restaurant in Beverly Hills that seats 25 people and serves 9 courses in each meal. It's focusing on a monthly set menu inspired by a special seasonal ingredient. Pretty amazing, enjoy.

Homemade soba noodles

What an amazing flavor the noodles have when you make them at home, healthy, yummy soba noodles. I used sprouted buckwheat flour and this recipe. I also watched this video that helped a lot. Just one note, the dough has to be moist, not dry at all otherwise the noodles don't taste good. Enjoy!

What's for dinner

Main course: sprouted brown rice, chicken thighs, tomatoes, tomato sauce, pine nuts, raisins, kalamata olives and tones of spices in a deep dish covered with our homemade pizza dough brushed with olive oil. 40 minutes on 400º F. Salads: warm salad of sautéed beet greens and kale from our garden with chickpeas, garlic and persimmon on top for sweetness. Cold salad of beautiful beets, apples and carrots with mint, olive oil, lemon juice, honey and salt.

Beets

New beautiful beets from our vegetable garden. I had to make the amazing raw beets and cranberries salad. I added two carrots to the mix and adjusted the dressing to a larger amount. I also used mint instead of parsley.

Dinner

What's for dinner? Baked branzino with herbs from our herb garden, latkas (very similar recipe here with no onion) and eggplants (from our vegetable garden) with crushed chickpeas and herb yogurt from the amazing new book I got for hanukkah, Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi. You can find the recipe and a few more here. Enjoy.

Puree

Beautiful identity system for Puree by studioahamed, an organic medicinal vegetable garden where consumers can have access to naturally farmed food located in there very neighborhoods.