I was in the mood for a simple cake without too much effort involved but didn’t want a plain vanilla cake. So I added a bit of spice and orange juice to snazz it up, and decided to make something between a pound cake and a butter type cake but without the butter. This cake […]
There are times when you are just not in the mood for a meat meal and cast about in your kitchen to throw something together that’s dairy or vegetarian. So I dove headfirst into my pantry to see what I could find that appealed and discovered a package of green lentils which my mother sorta […]
Tis the season for glorious dairy foods, before the holiday of Shavuot when we celebrate receiving the Torah. I won’t go into the reason for dairy foods, Rabbi Google is out there with the info, but suffice it to say that pretty much everyone I know goes crazy for not merely dairy foods but especially […]
We have an abundance of wonderful summer fruit now and I particularly like the idea of grilled fruit with salmon. So, I thought why not do the whole shebang in one go on a baking tray? Easy peasy, bursting with flavor and oh so delicious? Now you might say, what?! five minutes? ridiculous! Nay nay […]
This is a lovely soup with a wonderful silky mouthfeel to it and it’s very easy to prepare. Whether you are in a cold or hot environment, this soup goes down well. I wanted the feel and taste of old fashioned smooth potato soup but a bit lighter than the regular kind and the addition […]
Since this is a very English dish, you might ask how a native New Yorker living in Jerusalem would know of it. Blame it on my friend Paulette (hello out there xxx) who served it to us years ago in London. I won’t go into the whole where it got it’s name (briefest version, in […]
Why Tuesday night, you might ask? Because generally when the kids were growing up, we had leftovers till Monday night and then I threw something together for Tuesday night since pizza was really a Wednesday night meal, pretty much every week (my daughter Batya has mostly kept this tradition going). But, I find that now […]
I was in the mood for another crunchy cookie and I was in the mood for nuts. I also didn’t want to spend too much time on them in prep (I have my moments of crazy amounts of time on prep, this day wasn’t one of ’em 😉 ) so I decided to fiddle about […]
I’m a big fan of sweet potatoes but mostly prefer to go with a savory approach. I’ve always felt adding too much sweet made it taste like a dessert and not a side dish. This kugel doesn’t taste like a regular potato kugel, it’s got a slight custardy thing going on as well as a […]