A couple of years ago, my mother gave me the gift of my dreams – an ice cream machine. We’ve been using it a lot for making coffee slurpees and frozen yogurt, but last week I had to do something with our passion fruit harvest, and so we had Passion Fruit Orange Sorbet for Shabbat. [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Passover Alert: Bugs in Your Lettuce
With Passover just around the corner, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel published the results of laboratory tests, which checked the presence of bugs in lettuce and celery marketed as being bug-free. In a radio interview, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who spearheaded the initiative, said that some packages of “insect-free” lettuce had as many as 500 bugs [...]
Passover Cleaning with Serenity
Every year as Passover approaches, Rav Shlomo Aviner publishes his Guide to Passover Cleaning in One Day. The motto of the guide is that dirt is not chametz and children are not the Pesach sacrifice. In a similar vein, last week, the Jewish Women’s Project for Ahavas Yisrael, which organizes learning groups for women, sent [...]
Encouragement for Parents
Professionalism has its downside. As a long-time translator, I have great difficulty reading translated literature. Even if I am not familiar with the original, I notice the judgment calls made by the translator and consider how I would have done things differently. I have heard similar stories from other professionals, such as a graphic designer, [...]
Purple Pancakes
Like all great ideas, this one was born by accident. With Passover just around the corner, Jewish families everywhere are on the lookout for creative quick and easy ways to get rid of whatever has made its way into their pantries and freezers and failed to find its way out. The other night, I decided [...]
Go Fish
While looking through my recipes the other day, I noticed that I have not published that many offerings from the Russian Jewish cuisine. Just then, my mom sent me an excellent recipe for forshmak – a chopped herring spread. Herring is one of those foods that some people love to hate, but just wait till [...]
