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 […]
Why honeymooners you might ask? Simple. So many of us are home just the two of us for close to two months because of Corona virus lockdown and you just want some cake. What to do? You can’t scale down a cake with an 1/8 of an egg, it’s ridiculous and not doable. So how […]
In my many years of dining out, I must’ve eaten a kajillion Niçoise salads, some excellent, some eh and some weirdly awful. There are certain things that tend to be basic to the salad, but I was in the mood for one and decided to go with a few changes in the tradition. I skipped […]