Sephardi Kitchen

about me

I am a junior at the University of Illinois @ Urbana Champaign, studying Speech and Hearing Science with a concentration in Audiology.

I grew up in a very small rural town in northern Illinois and attended a residential high school (IMSA) in Aurora. I love soccer, fishing, dissecting stuff, drawing and painting, henna, pyrography, knitting (although I am not very good at it!) cooking and prowling for recipes online, Judaism, reading, rock climbing, and the outdoors. I hope to pursue a doctorate in Audiology (AuD) after undergrad.

I have always loved cooking and trying new foods, and moving into my first apartment has been a wonderful opportunity to do so. However, it has also been quite a transition getting used to actually cooking for myself everyday, without making a huge ordeal. I do believe I am getting better at fixing a meal in a more efficient amount of time

Favorite Foods:

I am half Sephardic (Jewish), and love foods that hail from around the Mediterranean, Middle East, and South America! Some of my favorite ingredients are:

Beef (see Argentina), lamb
Beans and legumes, especially chickpeas and lentils
Basmati Rice
Spicy!
Salads
bell peppers, eggplants, zucchini, tomatoes
Any desserts with rosewater
food with real (Spanish) olive oil
Dulce de Leche, cinnamon and chocolate
walnuts!

Some of my favorite foods include empanadas, just about any Indian food (especially korma, delicious!), lentil soup, veg antipasta, pesto, falafel, skirt steak with chimichurri, chelo kebab and fesenjan (my Persian boyfriend introduced me to the cuisine a couple years ago and I've loved it since!) Pastel de Papas, devilled eggs, grilled eggplant, chickpea salad... it goes on



I shouldn't be making a list, I will eat just about anything!

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