My thoughts on Jewish food.
Pots de crème sounds like a fancy French dessert, and it is, but that doesn’t mean that the home cook will find what is essentially a type of custard, difficult to prepare. The key to making perfect pots de crème is to cook the mixture gently and slowly to achieve that silky smooth texture. Here …
Tofu, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches, or TLTs, are a treat and are easy to prepare—a boon for the chef who’s short on time. The TLT sandwich, as we like to call it, stands in for the popular treif sandwich known as a “BLT.” I have no idea how close my TLT sandwiches come to the …
Fresh peaches are in season and my family is obsessed with this overnight French toast that uses 6 of these delicious summer fruits. Brown sugar, vanilla, ginger, and cinnamon meld to create the perfect complement to the warm peach flavors. This is the breakfast you want in your fridge when you have company. Serve it …
Garlic knots are a garlic bread lover’s dream, because instead of a crunchy slice with a moist inside, each little soft through and through individual knot is moist with garlic oil and you don’t have to share it with anyone (always a plus!). On baking days, I like to take some of my challah dough …
Mishmash pasta was born of a need to find a new way to serve pasta to my family. They were sick of pasta, but pasta is easy, quick, filling, and inexpensive. Which is the reason I was determined to invent something different to pique their flagging appetite for pasta. The result of my experiment was …
Sweet potatoes are great for those times you need a nice veggie side dish, but you’ve kind of got vegetable fatigue. There are only so many vegetables, and only so many ways to prepare them. But sweet potaoes are delicious no matter how you prepare them. The rosemary sprigs elevate this dish to star status. …
You’re tired after a hard day’s work and in no mood to cook. But hungry mouths await dinner, including your own. So you pull out this recipe, and you’ve got dinner ready in under half an hour, depending on how quickly you can chop a couple of leeks, an onion, and a potato. Add some …
One of the easiest lunches one can prepare is this juicy Middle Eastern-style roast chicken. You rub a whole chicken with simple ingredients you likely already have on hand. Add some yellow rice with peas and you’re good to go. Make sure you give the chicken 15 minutes to rest before carving to keep the …
Fruit crumble isn’t something I ever thought to make, especially Erev Shabbos. But one Friday, I had some fruit that wasn’t going to last even one more day, and it was too much fruit to simply toss—it would have been criminal to do so. So I thought: maybe I can make some sort of crumble …
Cookies are a favorite anytime, and one of the best cookie recipes in my file box is for these white chocolate chip cranberry oatmeal cookies. Soft and chewy, these cookies are everything. The combination of ingredients is startling until you taste them. Then you’ll know how well these flavors mesh. Studded with white chocolate chips …