The Fertile Pudding (We Hope): Potato Kugel
Say what you will about us Jews, if there’s one culinary realm where we really excel, it’s starch. All those years of poverty, of moving from ...
Baking, Books, Jew Food, Snack
Sneak Peek at the New Year: Chocolate Honey Cake
If you’re a member of my family, here’s a look at tonight’s 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 Don’t Have to Suck (Not When There’s Chocolate Souffle Cake)
Today is my sister-in-law K’s birthday. It’s also the beginning of Passover—starting at sundown tonight, for eight days observant Jews will forego all kinds of forbidden ...
Baking, Dessert, Jew Food, Weight Watchers
Passover Birthdays Don’t Have to Suck (Not When There’s Chocolate Souffle Cake)
Today is my sister-in-law K’s birthday. It’s also the beginning of Passover—starting 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 “tasket,” anyway?)
On the great, long list of Jewish dishes worth losing a kidney for—kasha varnishkes, matzoh balls, potato kugel, kishke—one stands head and shoulders above the ...
Jew Food, Mains, My Story, Recipes
Smothered Chicken, Jewish Style
When you’re 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
“But 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 it’s one of my favorite—and easiest—things to make. It’s from an English ...
Baking, Bread, Jew Food, My Story
Friday Afternoons
What’s that you say—today 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 ...