My thoughts on Jewish food.
I used to make tapenade all the time. The family loved it on challoh, and it was easy to prepare. It hit me a couple of weeks ago that I’d forgotten about it, and that it would make a nice addition to our Shabbos table. But when I looked for recipes, I saw I didn’t …
If you know the proper technique, you can cook anything like a pro. Case in point this beef short rib stew with Guinness. After watching how several well-known cooks prepare beef stew, I used the ingredients in a recipe I found online, but ignored the instructions, applying what I’d learned from watching those clips. It …
Keto chicken kebabs are an easy way to stay on the keto diet while pleasing your non-keto family. Served with tehina sauce, they’re a great source of low-carb protein and fat for those on a low-carb high-fat diet. Served with rice, they’re perfect for everyone else in your family. My family liked them so much …
Jerk chicken was something I’d heard of but knew nothing about. But you know how chicken gets boring. I thought I’d look at some recipes online and see if it was doable, kosher-wise. (Yay! It was.) When I served my personal rendition of jerk chicken, cobbled together from the various recipes I’d found online, my …
Browning meat doesn’t somehow seal the meat and keep in the juices and flavor while braising. That was news to me who, for the last more than 40 years, has carefully browned little cubes of meat (on all sides, without crowding the pan) for stew or goulash. What a pain! You have to cook the …
A large Bundt cake is a blessing when you have a large number of guests arriving for Shabbos. Bundt cakes are filling and feed a lot of people. They also look great on a platter whether they have a glaze of a dusting of powdered sugar. This easy poppy seed cake tastes and looks terrific …
Turkey soup is chicken soup’s restorative country cousin, so to speak. It’s something to make with that leftover Thanksgiving carcass sitting in the freezer on a day when we’re too schlepped out to go to the store. With a house full of people with bronchitis, and one who subsequently developed pneumonia, soup was the only …
We know we’re supposed to serve vegetables at every meal, but somehow, we run out of ideas for making them interesting. Our newest vegetable idea is a simple one: spread a variety of vegetables on cookie sheets, sprinkle them with oil, salt, pepper, and garlic, and roast until the edges begin to blacken. These roasted …
If you look on parve chicken soup powder with distaste, look away, this vegetable couscous recipe is not for you. But it is definitely for me and my family. Soup powder is a wonderful way to add depth and flavor to parve dishes, such as this family-style luncheon dish. If soup powder is a concern …
Cheesy scalloped potatoes are what my family automatically thinks of when craving a hearty dairy dish. That’s fine with this cook, since I know enough about food combining to know that milk and potatoes, combined, are a protein, not to mention that cheese, in and of itself, is a protein. This dish has all three, …