I love baking bread, but it took me a while to learn the skill. You’ve got to get the dough just right, not too hard and not too watery. Kneading requires quite a bit of elbow grease, unless you have a good food processor that can handle bread dough. Rising time also takes a while. [...]
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Creative Leftovers – Using Leftover Soup
Soups are a winter lunchtime staple at our house. Unfortunately, my kids lose their enthusiasm for just about any soup on day 2, so I have to figure out what to do with leftover soup. A fast Google search produced many results on how to make soup out of leftovers (that’s a no-brainer), but pitifully [...]
Fabulous Fast Fruity Dessert
Recently, I came across a recipe for an Apple Crisp in one of Jerusalem’s advertising publications. The idea for a sweet fruity dessert was great, but the recipe was too sweet and oily for our taste. The apple filling, while nice, was just a tad too boring, so here is my take on this warm [...]
Quick and easy homemade pickles
The homemade pickles served at my grandfather’s house are part and parcel of warm childhood memories for me. I’ve never tasted anything like that ever since, so when my mom called the other day telling me she had pickled cucumbers and tomatoes based on her recollection of grandmother’s recipe, my first instinct was to grab [...]
Fast and Nutritious Lunch Bag Idea
At the PTA meeting the other day, school lunches was a hot issue. As the kids grow older and the school days become longer, a sandwich and a piece of fruit just didn’t seem to cut it anymore, leaving the mothers in search of healthy recipes to pack into the kids’ school lunch boxes. Between [...]
Easy Holiday Meal Ideas or What Else Haven’t You Cooked This Holiday Season
As I walked into our local grocery store on the eve of Simchat Torah, my neighbor greeted me with “So, what are you cooking for dinner this time.” A full month of constant holidays is enough to deplete the culinary reserves of even the most creative cooks. Here are some ideas and a recipe to [...]
Cold Soup on a Hot Day
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
