The Fertile Pudding (We Hope): Potato Kugel
Say what you will about us Jews, if thereās one culinary realm where we really excel, itās starch. All those years of poverty, of moving from ...
Baking, Books, Jew Food, Snack
Sneak Peek at the New Year: Chocolate Honey Cake
If youāre a member of my family, hereās a look at tonightās dessert:
Tonight is the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. S and I ...
Jew Food, My Story, Weight Watchers
Matzo Brei
I hate Passover. Most of my favorite foods are forbidden, and in their place we get matzo, the original flatbread. Stick to the roof of your ...
Baking, Dessert, Jew Food, Popular, Weight Watchers
Passover Birthdays Donāt Have to Suck (Not When There’s Chocolate Souffle Cake)
Today is my sister-in-law Kās birthday. Itās also the beginning of Passoverāstarting at sundown tonight, for eight days observant Jews will forego all kinds of forbidden ...
Baking, Dessert, Jew Food, Weight Watchers
Passover Birthdays Donāt Have to Suck (Not When There’s Chocolate Souffle Cake)
Today is my sister-in-law Kās birthday. Itās also the beginning of Passoverāstarting at sundown tonight, for eight days observant Jews will forego all kinds of forbidden foods, ...
Books, Jew Food, Mains, Recipes
A Brisket, a Tasket (What is a ātasket,ā anyway?)
On the great, long list of Jewish dishes worth losing a kidney forākasha varnishkes, matzoh balls, potato kugel, kishkeāone stands head and shoulders above the ...
Jew Food, Mains, My Story, Recipes
Smothered Chicken, Jewish Style
When youāre one of four kids growing up in a three-bedroom apartment without much money, you find yourself taking turns a lot. My brothers and I ...
Jew Food, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Sides, Vegetarian
Madeleines, Shmadeleines: Kasha Varnishkes
āBut when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile ...
Jew Food, Nap-Friendly Recipes, Soup
Mushroom Barley Soup
This is another recipe I grew up with, and when the weather turns cool itās one of my favoriteāand easiestāthings to make. Itās from an English ...
Baking, Bread, Jew Food, My Story
Friday Afternoons
Whatās that you sayātoday is Tuesday, not Friday? Well I know that, silly. This is another one of those memory pieces, in which I wax rhapsodic about a food I ...