Wholesome, hearty, and kind to your wallet: Our favorite protein-packed pasta sauce
Have we ever told you how much we love legumes? Inexpensive, packed with protein, and all around good for you. We experimented with them a lot during our just-over-minimum-wage days. While we never managed to construct a bean burger we’d actually eat a second time, other recipes stuck with us – like our felafel and…
Our favorite less-bad-for-you chocolate chip cookies
Just about everyone loves chocolate chip cookies. We are such cookie-holics and such fans of Cookie Monster, that we even named our dog Oogie after him. While we do have a super junky yet delicious recipe we use for an occasional dessert, we have developed a healthier (or less bad for you) version of the…
Simple, delicious, and easily adaptable four ingredient flourless cookies
We have two favorite flourless dessert recipes that we make for gluten-free guests, on Pesach and year-round whenever we feel like it – just because they are quick, easy, and delicious. We love them because they don’t require xanthan gum or any fancy flour blends and instead use common ingredients we tend to already have…
Five-ingredient tuna patties that even your kids will eat
It’s been a while since we last shared a recipe on this blog. Here’s another quick meal that can be put together without much effort, especially after a long day at work or after the kids come home from school. Since including tuna balls in our post about the 10 easy and inexpensive meals we…
7 easy ways to shorten your Shabbat prep and free up your Friday
Now that we’ve changed the clocks, Shabbat starts SUPER EARLY. But somehow, food still needs to be prepared just the same – in significantly less time. So how do we do it – and still have time to get out and enjoy our Fridays? What do you do to make Shabbat prep easier? Like what…
Our absolute favorite easy peasy five ingredient fudgy brownie recipe
Looking for a decadent new dessert recipe that is easy to make and will impress your friends? Not only is this recipe quick and easy, it only has five ingredients. It is also dairy-free, and can very easily be made gluten free (or kosher for Pesach). Serve with a dollop of whipped cream and some…
Finn’s mom’s absolutely refreshing fruit soup
Finn here. This past year, my mom passed away. Since then, I have felt more of a need to share the family traditions and recipes I grew up on with my kids. I hope that they will remember these things from their childhoods and will want to pass them on when they have their own…
Grab-n-go any fruit healthy breakfast muffins
Do you ever end up tossing fruit or veggies that go bad? We do sometimes, but we haven’t thrown out bananas in years. Or apples, or carrots, or squash or a variety of other fruits or veggies. It doesn’t matter how cheap something is, if it ends up in the trash, it’s a waste of…
10 easy and inexpensive meals we feed our family
Just imagine it. All four of us sit down nicely at the table. Everyone is telling how wonderful a day they had, eating dinner nicely, telling jokes every night and the dog is sitting up right next to the table and staring at us and with big brown puppy eyes saying “Feed me”. Uhhhh. Not…
Quick as a wink chocolate cake
Searching for an easy last minute cake to take to your Yom Ha’atzmaut barbecue? Look no further than this one. An added perk is that this cake is vegan-friendly since it doesn’t have any eggs. Finn learned this recipe from his mom and can almost make it with his eyes closed. We nosh this a…
Fionist felafel for 3 shekels a serving
Who here remembers the days when you could get a felafel b’pita for under 10 shekels? Or… under 15 shekels? With felafel prices starting 20 shekels in many places, Israel’s national dish and most inexpensive fast food meal isn’t so cheap anymore, especially when you’re feeding a family. So how does felafel night work in…
When it’s chilly, make some chili.
Like many young couples thrown into the adventure of new parenthood, we were low earners, making slightly above 11K net combined, and suddenly had to stretch our same income to cover daycare and baby equipment. We had to figure out how to get the best deals on diapers, wipes and formula (which we only optimized…
All you need is love and pizza
Once upon a time – okay, last year – we used to order takeout 2-4 times per month, as a treat for ourselves, after the kids were in bed. But every so often, the food would arrive late, cold, soggy, burnt or fallen apart. And it cost between 100-200 shekels for the two of us.…
Chasing the Fionist Dream 