My thoughts on Jewish food.
In my repertoire of easy luncheon and supper dishes that I make when short on time or feeling lazy, is a dish of spaghetti with an uncooked tomato sauce. While sometimes you need to make something quick and easy, it still has to taste good—what’s the point of making it if they won’t eat it. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Roasted garlic is a delicious accompaniment to challah. After roasting, the garlic cloves become soft and spreadable with a buttery taste. You scoop out the cloves, spread them on your challah, and sprinkle the top with salt. YUM! When I’m getting ready to roast garlic, I drag out my old muffin tins, individual aluminum cups …
Energy bars are a wonderful solution to many of the problems of everyday life. When you wake up late and don’t have time for a sit down breakfast, energy bars are a perfect solution. You can eat them one-handed while driving or jotting down notes. The easy-to-make bars are also a great pick-me-up for that …
Muffins make a great portable treat to take on a picnic, or pack in a lunch bag. These pumpkin and spice chocolate chip muffins stay moist for a long time, and they even freeze well. They also offer the best of both worlds: sweet spices AND chocolate. The downside? They disappear a little too quickly. …
One of the best snack foods in Israel are the Abadi brand bagelehs, firm little bagel-shaped savory biscuits. They are irresistible. To paraphrase an old commercial for potato chips, no one can eat just one Abadi bageleh. Because the cookies are baked dry, and don’t contain any perishable ingredients, they keep crisp and delicious for …
Once all the Pesach cleaning, turning the kitchen over, cooking, and turning the kitchen back again are over, most of us are exhausted. We desperately need easy recipes for the following Shabbos. This orange glazed chicken is not only easy—aside from zesting an orange—but uses up the sweet wine you bought to make charoses (Don’t …