Sometimes you just feel like going back to basics. I can enjoy new dishes with interesting ingredients and to fuss in the kitchen as well as the next person. But sometimes you get a craving for one of those simple recipes that are comfort foods. Roast chicken is one such dish. Chicken can be indifferent, […]
We hadn’t gone shopping in an age and the cupboards were pretty bare. We needed a pretty quick dinner and I decided to go with a tried and true fallback – tuna burgers. We’ve called them patties, croquettes, what have you, but they are beloved by my family and DH always is happy if I […]
I love the crispy, crunchy texture of borekas. They are especially delicous hot out of the oven but the problem is they are loaded with margarine. While I’m trying to use less margarine in my life (though emphatically not always succeeding), I do prefer to use phyllo pastry dough as opposed to puff pastry. Even […]
I’m wracking my brains in order to remember the last time I ate in an Indian restaurant. In Israel it was well over 20 years ago but I ate out with my friends in London a few years ago at a wonderful restaurant and DH and I happily snorfed down large quantities of every kind […]
I have always been a big fan of corn muffins. The problem is that often they are dry and stick in your throat. I have been searching for years for the perfect recipe for corn muffins in order to make them moist and tender. In general muffins can be a baking person’s Waterloo since they […]
I was in the mood for a pizza-like object in a hurry and after a swift inventory discovered I was plumb out of pizza sauce and in fact had no tomato sauce or tomato paste either! Bummer, I thought but then decided not to let this stop me and instead to go the focaccia route. […]
I love fruit desserts, as does DH. We have a beautiful apple tree in our back garden that once a year produces a bumper crop of Anna apples. These are too tart to eat plain and must be baked into pies or cakes or applesauce (so not, no babies in my house). So, I researched […]
These are my basic cookie which satisfies a deep need within me. They use oil, not margarine, so even though it’s healthier 😉 , it surpases margarine in that this makes for a crunchier cookie. They are perfect with a cup of tea or coffee or a glass of milk. You can dunk them and […]
Cholent is a serious food. There are no two ways about it, you eat this and it tastes like a piece of Shabbos (not Shabbat if you get me 😉 ). I grew up in a household where my mom – much as I adore her – just had no clue of how to make […]