Entries by Debbie

Amaretto Cake

The first time I tasted this cake was when we moved in to our house 11 years ago.  My friend and neighbor Ditza was so kind as to send her daughter over with this fresh baked cake right before Shabbat to welcome us to the new section of the neighborhood.  It was spot on since […]

Good ol’ fashioned Hamburgers

This past Thursday DH and I came home from work and were just tired and needed some old fashioned comfort food.  And then I realized everything in the house I could prepare was frozen like a block of ice.  Sigh.  Defrost in microwave? You half cook the product.  So, I’ve learned I can defrost things […]

Tender, luscious, gluten free Almond Cake

Aside from Passover recipes which don’t use regular flour (and I don’t care for matzo meal in recipes, it tastes like a combo of sawdust and cardboard to me) I don’t often prepare gluten free items except when I know my nieces and nephew are going to be dining with me who are either gluten […]

Home After the Wars- Egg Melange

DH and I like to travel.  Most often, there is an element of work involved although as time goes by, much less for me than for him.  If we are traveling to the USA, I get a chance to both visit family and friends and shop till I almost literally drop at Macy’s Herald Square […]

Yechiel’s Chopped Liver

I’ve been making chopped liver since I’m a bride (40 years tfutfutfu!) I lived in the States at the time and there liver was usually beef liver which I liked but wasn’t my fave.  I didn’t understand the sublime taste of liver till I ate chicken livers in a chopped liver spread and I became […]

Revenge Cookies

There are times when you just need a cookie.  A piece of cake just won’t do it.  Whether the cookie is crispy or chewy (rarely do I go for cakey, cuz, hey, cookie not cake, yeah?) it is a different kettle of fish than a piece of cake.  Which you have to cut, aaaand it’s […]