Following my post about cholent, I have received inquiries about buying muslin bags in Israel. From my experience, these sakiyot lebishul mebad are available at most health food stores. You can also order them online, for example here and here. As to care, I have found the dishwasher to be the best way to clean [...]
Posts Tagged ‘kosher’
Twitter Challa
It has become a routine. Each Thursday my neighbour calls to ask whether I’ll be baking challa come Friday. I usually answer in the affirmative and in return get a name of a sick person to pray for while separating challa. The whole project of organizing 40 women each week is spearheaded by an amazing [...]
‘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 [...]
A different Shabbat fish
When my Yemen-born mother-in-law first came to Israel in late 1940s, her parents decides to build their house apart from the rest of the community, so as to protect their children from unwanted social influences. Little did they know that within a decade they would be living in the midst of a vibrant community of [...]
Something different for the holiday meal
Our family’s love affair with Bukharian cuisine began over 60 years ago during WWII, when my grandmother was evacuated from Ukraine to Central Asia. She returned home after getting to know dozens of Bukharian-Jewish families and learning about their favorite dishes. Although I got my hands on a whole treasure trove of authentic recipes while [...]
