With the heat wave upon us, and many more expected in the coming months, the idea of hot kitchens and heavy meals doesn’t resonate with family chefs and their “clients.”
That’s where these nutritious, delicious, and super-easy recipes come in. There is nothing like a bowl of nourishing yet refreshing cold soup to please your family [...]
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Cold Soup on a Hot Day
The Most Unusual Cheesecake You’ll Ever Make
With Shavuot is just around the corner, many of us are frantically looking for our favorite cheesecake recipes from last year. However, if you are the adventurous type and would like to make something out of the mainstream, here is my unorthodox version of the iconic Shavuot cheesecake.
This cheesecake is perfect for the egg allergics [...]
Easy Passover Dessert
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.
Truth [...]
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 to [...]
Go Fish
While looking through my recipes the other day, I’ve 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 you [...]
Tu B’Shvat Strudel (a very different kind)
Tu B’Shvat Strudel (a very different kind)
As promised, here is my Tu B’Shvat recipe for your enjoyment.
In our family this recipe goes back at least all the way back to my great-grandmother. When my mother was 19, my grandmother suffered a stroke from which she did not recover. Along with all the other losses, [...]
Egg-free Schnitzel (Not for Allergics Alone)
What do you do when a sudden lifestyle change prevents you from enjoying something you like? Last year, when my nursing baby was diagnosed with an egg allergy (preventing me from eating fried eggs as well), I needed to find an idea for making schnitzel without eggs.
Schnitzel is a staple at our house. My husband [...]
Buckwheat – the Other Side Dish
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 [...]
‘Tis the Season to Eat Cholent
Winter is here and with it the annual cholent season. While the long months of the Israeli summer make the very thought of a heavy meat meal (and an extra heat source) unthinkable, cholent is the perfect winter comfort food.
For anyone unfamiliar with this masterpiece of Jewish inventiveness, cholent (chamin in Hebrew) is a stew [...]
Turkey neck bean soup
As we woke up to gray skies and chilly air this morning, I decided to treat my kids to turkey neck soup – their favorite. Turkey is an excellent source of iron, but my family is not very fond of it. The only part of turkey everyone loves is the neck
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