Aviah (Avi) Morag @aviaaaaah@kitch.win

Before and after, on our Ooni 3 in Jaffa. Cooking time: 60 seconds.

More traditional cuisine. Links of homemade merguez (spicy Moroccan lamb) sausage. The casing is lamb intestine. Made using a KitchenAid stand mixer with sausage-making attachment.

And sometimes we get very traditional. A serving of fatout (פתות), made from bread and chicken soup, mixed with hilbe (חילבה), a paste made from fenugreek, as well as s’chug (סחוג), a type of chili paste. All part of Yemenite Jewish cuisine, and all homemade, including the bread.

Another counterintuitive one. Xiaolongbao (小笼包) or “soup dumplings” are full of soup, but how did it get there? The answer is that the filling is actually a type of aspic, i.e., soup that is actually solid at room temperature, but liquid when steamed with the dumplings.

Some of the best dishes can seem counterintuitive at first. This is duck confit, prepared in duck fat at low temperature for six hours, then heated briefly in a frying pan to get the skin crispy. On the side: pomegranate reduction and homemade risotto

Everyone has “that one recipe” they’ll never live down. For me it was this fully-functional chess cake for my older son’s birthday. Prep. time: 90 minutes. Making the chess pieces using plastic molds was the easiest part of it.

@gnomon This fact was not lost on me when I took the picture. 😂 A Tunisian sandwich gun is clearly the mod we all need

Slightly dated, but one of my finer achievements: homemade mozzarella cheese. As with baking, cheesemaking requires quite a bit of precision, particularly with regard to temperature control.

A “Tunisian sandwich,” consisting of a baguette filled with tuna, hard-boiled egg, olives, harissa and potato, on the lawn outside a museum in Herzliya, Israel

Better than counting sheep: A machine churns out pita bread one by one in an alleyway in Jaffa

A plate of homemade 水煮牛肉, "water-boiled beef," a staple of Sichuan cuisine, before garnishing. The dish itself exists in multiple variants, notably with fish.