Recipe: Lemon Salsa from The Lazy Gourmet
The Lazy Gourmet: Magnificent Meals Made Easyby Robin Donovan & Juliana Gallin isn’t strictly a book for parents. But between you and me and the lamppost, it’s exactly what you need when it’s 6:00 and you haven’t started—or even thought about—dinner yet, when you’re brain-dead and bone-tired and wish that someone would come over and ...Keep Reading
Zitner’s Butter Krak: Happy (Addictive) Easter!
Good morning, friends. Tomorrow is Easter, and if you’ve been reading here longer than, oh, 24 hours, you know it’s not my holiday. It is, however, my husband’s holiday, and he enjoys every candy-loving second of it. We went to my in-laws’ last weekend for a little pre-Easter candy debauchery, just to blow Harry’s Jewish ...Keep Reading
Olive Oil-Matzo Granola
There are about a thousand things I’m supposed to be doing right now, so I’ll keep this short and sweet: Go make this. It’s magic. It transforms dry, musty matzo farfel into something you’ll want to eat until your jaw hurts. Feed it to a person who isn’t forced to eat matzo for a week ...Keep Reading
Hide the Chametz: Passover Recipes
It starts tonight: My favorite Jewish holiday for two or three days, which turns into my least-favorite Jewish holiday around Day Four, when I can’t bear the thought of eating another sheet of matzo, and I miss the ease of, I don’t know, toast so much I want to cry. Over the years I’ve written ...Keep Reading
Brunch Recipe: Zucchini-Gruyere Tart
Ever since our dear, dear child was born, Stephen and I don’t entertain as much as we might like. There’s the boy’s birthday party, of course, and the cooking I do for my in-laws’ various celebrations, and one very casual Thanksgiving, but other than that it’s usually a last-minute, hey-why-don’t-you-stay-for-dinner kind of thing. No planning, ...Keep Reading






