My thoughts on Jewish food.
Pumpkin pie is a most delicious finish to a hearty Thanksgiving meal. But finding a good recipe for a parve pie is not so easy. Here is my recipe for a parve pumpkin pie, complete with recipe and instructions for your own, from scratch dough. You can make cut the margarine into the flour using …
Potato kugel is ubiquitous on the Shabbos table, and with good reason. Doesn’t everyone love a really good piece of potato kugel? But not every piece of potato kugel is worth the (significant) calories. Here’s one that definitely is. Is it a patchke? For sure. But just as this kugel is worth the calories, it’s …
Our go-to meat main course for company is this delectable pepper steak recipe. Served on rice or mashed potatoes to soak up the gravy, this is a meal to remember. Use the best wine you can find, and serve the rest of the bottle with the meal! Pepper Steak Yield 4-6 servings Ingredients: 2 lbs. …
Meatloaf doesn’t have to be your humdrum Mom’s meatloaf. You can jazz it up a gazillion different ways. When you’re looking for a change, this sweet and sour meatloaf is a great option. Everyone loves this saucy meat main course. It makes its own sauce and it’s a cinch to put together. Sweet and Sour …
While Rosh Hashanah is now but a memory, it’s nice to review what worked and what didn’t, in terms of what was produced in the kitchen. The following apple cake recipe looked gorgeous, was easy to make, and serves a lot of people—more than we needed with our abbreviated pandemic guest list. Still, it stayed …
A simple baked potato, topped with baked beans to make it a complete protein, sounds amazing after all the heavy holiday fare of the past two months. These days, we are craving something without meat, something unfussy and plain. And while Britain is not known for its culinary prowess, there’s something appealing about this humble …
Tuna noodle salad is our go-to main course when we need something fast and filling that everyone likes. Huge bowls of this tuna salad disappear in no time flat. It’s a nice change from all the filling holiday food, for a weekday lunch at this time of year. Tuna Noodle Salad Yield: 8-10 servings Ingredients: …
Most people have chicken soup for the Friday night Sabbath meal. A friend’s mother, however, always made the following soup, of her own invention, and so her family named it “Friday Night Soup.” One of the pleasures of this soup is gnawing on the bones, served up in their own bowl, so this is definitely …
In the run-up to Sukkot, it’s nice to bake a variety of cookies. Most cookies keep well, even at room temperature. Biscotti or Mandelbrot are pretty much the same thing and are traditionally enjoyed with a glass of tea at the end of a meal. They are also far easier to prepare than most cookies. …
Canny cooks like to incorporate symbolic foods into salads to be served at the beginning of the Rosh Hashanah meal, such as this butternut squash and spinach salad. The symbolic foods have accompanying verses we recite at the table that play on the names of each food. In this recipe, butternut squash stands in for …