One Thursday, during the early years of our marriage, my husband and I discussed the upcoming Shabbat dinner menu. “Can you think of an interesting side dish,” he asked. “I am tired of rice and potatoes.” A quick perusal of my only cookbook at the time left us disappointed. Rice and potatoes was all it had to offer.
Since then, I have discovered a whole array of interesting side dishes, but my hands-down favorite is what many of our ancestor ate back in Europe – buckwheat or kasha. (more…)