My thoughts on Jewish food.
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, …
Our cousins in Israel had a bumper crop of lemons this year. Even after distributing bags of the yellow orbs to neighbors up and down the street, there were still dozens of lemons left. After making pickled lemons (also known as preserved lemons), lemonade concentrate syrup, and grilled lemon chicken, they looked for desserts that …
I’ve written about latkes, how all these cooks out there on the web have their special secrets for crisp latkes with a soft interior. None of these recipes, however, are as good as the latkes my mother made, when we were growing up. Back in the day, we grated the potatoes by hand for my …
Looking for an easy-to-cook supper? Pasta with meat sauce couldn’t be easier to make. If you don’t feel like chopping onions or crushing garlic, use dehydrated onion flakes and granulated garlic. The sauce is enough for one pound of pasta, so it feeds a crowd, or alternatively, a few teenage sons! Simple Spaghetti with Meat …