On Passover, I try everything in my power to avoid matzah meal (ground fine matza) in my cakes and cooking since I find it leaves an unpleasant aftertaste on my tongue as well as being a very heavy ingredient (and we are eating all that meat and chicken!), I always look for substitutes. Since I’m […]
With many meals coming up on Passover, you look to have some lighter menus that are also festive. I find that fish fits the bill quite nicely. I particularly like this recipe since it’s unbelievably quick to make and the salmon’s texture is so delicately soft and also cuts so beautifully that I am tempted […]
Around this time of year, post Purim I confess I become a little crazy – Pesach/Passover centric. This seems to be true of most every female I know, if not the male of the species. Hmmmm, I wonder why. I know, I know, it’s only 7 days (for us Israelis) but part of the reason […]
This wonderful, cool and creamy mousse dessert is the result of DH really understanding me. Over 20 years ago, the Hilton hotel in Jerusalem had a cooking course which they gave in their kitchens. He gave me the course as an anniversary gift, realizing that for me that was better than most other gifts. Yay […]
DH has certain things he likes, certain things he really doesn’t and certain things he flip flops on. Chicken is one of them. For awhile, he wouldn’t eat the skin of the chicken, too greasy looking (sometimes true, actually). So for awhile I primarily cooked pargiot – skinless, boneless chicken thighs. Then he ate some […]
Not long ago, my daughter Rach and her hubby Eyal asked if I could take the kids for Shabbat (4 lively grandkids aged 3-almost 13) so they could have a getaway Shabbat. DH and I were really pleased since we haven’t hosted them in awhile and we were looking forward to it. I asked my […]
When DH and I first got married, we had a subscription to the New York Times newspaper. Pre-internet, this was our source for news, good or bad. He, being of the more intellectual bent, actually read it for the news. I, after a cursory look through the paper for my daily aggravation, really waited for […]
I am a cooked onion fan. Not so much the raw kind-that can be meh except for very specific recipes. I find that when they are caramelized properly, browned and luscious and sweet, you can literally add them to almost anything, maybe not cornflakes 😉 but I’m still debating it, heh. When the kids had […]
I was at the wedding of my good friends recently and while I expected to be uplifted spiritually, confess I was not expecting the material side to be uplifting and braced myself for the usual rubber chicken. Imagine my delight and surprise when each course was beautifully presented and truly tasty. So much so, […]