My thoughts on Jewish food.
One of our favorite family dishes is fried rice. I know this is supposed to be a way to use up old rice, but we like it so much I found myself cooking rice a day in advance just to make this dish. Lucky for us, I just discovered that fried rice comes out even …
Cabbage is a humble vegetable. It’s cheap and filling, and when over the hill has an unpleasant taste and smell. But a good cook can do magic with even a poor man’s vegetable. In fact, one of my go-to Shabbos side dishes is shredded cabbage cooked in goose schmaltz and seasoned with lots of salt, …
If you’re like me, when Thanksgiving was over, you stuck the turkey carcass into the freezer for a future date—perhaps to make some tummy-warming soup for a wintry day. We don’t feel much like cooking after that Thanksgiving cookathon, but we figure at some point, we’ll be back in the kitchen, itching to cook something …