Mirj

about me

October 2007: It's been 6 years since I came into Zaar one day at the recommendation of someone on another website. If you ask my husband (or my coworkers), I haven't logged out since!





So what's happened in the 6 years since I became addicted to Zaar? Well, I've been happily married, happily divorced, and happily married once again. (Wanna see wedding pictures? Click here.)

Originally from the Bronx, I've been living in Israel since 1983. I'm married to a brilliant man with the most yummy British accent (this is the part where he rolls his eyes and says, "Yeah, yeah, yeah"). Let's call him Sushiman, even though he hates that name. Chia gave him that nickname when I was trying to create a dinner to show off my culinary talents. I posted here on Zaar with questions about the menu and since sushi was the main focus of the meal, he became Sushiman. That dinner was just the first of what I hope will become a lifetime of meals together.

This is a picture of us taken in September 2005 in Kew Gardens in London. It my favorite picture of the two of us.



February 2008 — Here are two pictures of the two of us taken at Sushiman's eldest son's wedding.



I have 4 of the most gorgeous daughters in the known universe (tfu, tfu, tfu, that's me spitting three times to ward off the Evil Eye). Sushiman has 4 kids of his own, so together that makes us a family of ten, together with my dog and my step-dog. We're the Brady Bunch on speed. Not all eight live with us, but everyone is in and out all of the time, so we're thinking about replacing our front door with one of those revolving thingies.

Sushiman's middle son, flanked by two of his gorgeous step-sisters. He was so pleased with this picture he made it his Facebook profile pic, for good reason:



My oldest daughter is in film school and has had one of her movies shown at a film festival here in Israel as well as on national television. I can’t wait for her to thank me in her acceptance speech when she gets her Oscar!

Update August 2008: Sara's getting married! Here's the happy couple back in February 2008:







Places I Have Been:









Here on Recipezaar I am the host of the Kosher & Jewish Cooking forum. Come on in, and let the Jewish Mothers of Zaar feed you senseless!

I hope you enjoy my recipes. I have only posted recipes of food that I am willing to eat myself. Therefore, you won't find anything unkosher in my recipes. You won't find any stinky bleu cheese or goat's cheese either. You will find a lot of comfort food, I believe that comfort food is very important.
Here are a few pictures of what you can find in my recipes. Thanks to the many good Zaarfolk who took these wonderful photos and made my recipes look so yummy:


Zaar Events














Gay and Troy are always thanking us for making Recipezaar such a great place. I firmly believe that it's Gay and Troy themselves that deserve a multitude of thanks, from us! And I hope I live up to their expectations!


Miscellaneous Stuff

Some of my favorite blogs:
Troy & Gay — yes, you can peek into the personal lives of our Zaar elves
Brownie Points
The Girl Who Ate Everything
Slashfood — the most wonderful collection from food bloggers
Fatfree Vegan Kitchen — so delicious you’ll forget it’s good for you
Food Porn Watch — a huge collection of food blogs
This Normal Life
Treppenwitz — blinding flashes of intellect, just a little too late

My online newspapers:
The Jerusalem Post — Breaking news from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
YnetNews — Israel news, culture and comment
New York Daily News — New York's Hometown Connection
CNN















What time is it in Ra'anana?

Favorite Foods:

I'm a self-proclaimed foodie, love anything having to do with food, from shopping for it, cooking it, eating it (of course), and even reading about it. As for a favorite food, if I had to limit it to just one, it would be sushi. We were once at this party with an unlimited sushi bar, and I must have eaten my weight in sushi and sashimi. And that's a lot of sushi.

http://www.recipezaar.com/browse/getchef.zsp?id=21752