I sat at the kitchen table and watched as my mother carefully cored a cabbage and dropped the pale green leaves, one at a time, into a pot of bubbling water. Cabbage rolls were one of my mother’s signature yom tov dishes. Stuffed cabbage is the ultimate slow-cooked comfort food, in which cabbage leaves are filled with a savory ground meat mixture and simmered in a sweet and sour tomato…
Fried chicken holds a special place in my heart. Growing up, it was the meal that I chose to celebrate my birthday and my first Shabbat dinner after returning from sleep-away camp. It was also the pièce de résistance served at my engagement party. Yup, my mother fried chicken for one hundred guests to bring joy to the heart of this once blushing bride. So, when I sampled the chicken…
My father was never happier than when he was stationed in front of a smoky barbecue carefully tending to chicken smoldering on the grill. I’m certainly my father’s daughter and I felt a very special joy last week as I attentively turned and repositioned hundreds of chicken wings and hotdogs on a sizzling grill that was big enough to feed an army. In fact, the Israeli army. Monday’s Grilled Chicken…
Boiling corned beef, the most commonly suggested method for cooking pickled meat, typically results in meat that shrinks by as much as one-third of its size. This can be a source of disappointment when you’re trying to feed a crowd. But roasting the meat in the oven using Noreen Gilletz’s recipe for oven roasted pickled brisket, published in The Pleasures of Your Processor, unfailingly results in perfectly cooked meat, bathed…
My daughter-in-law looked at me with a raised eyebrow when I placed a portion of honey-dill salmon with basmati rice in front of every seat before we sat down to lunch on Shabbat. Understandable. More than half of the guests were aged twelve-years-old and under. It’s hard for me to prejudge who is going to take the plunge and taste something new but in this case, my gamble paid off.…
My husband approaches eating fish with caution, unless it’s of the gefilte variety. Recognizing its heart-healthy omega-3 properties, from time to time he makes yet another honest attempt to make our finny friends a regular part of his diet. To no avail. Inevitably, his portion of fish meets an ignominious end, drowning in a sea of ketchup or salad dressing (and sometimes both). However, with this recipe for Cajun fried…
You might think that the only thing that Peruvian chicken shares with the holiday of Passover is the letter “P”. Surprisingly, all the components of this vibrant and intensely flavored one-pan chicken dinner can be found with kosher for Passover supervision. When it comes to the holidays, we’re all traditionalists at heart and treasure the memories that accompany the foods we love. But a recipe for an easy sheet pan…
North Americans are working longer hours than at any time since statistics have been kept. Thankfully, sheet pan recipes are a busy person’s best friend. This recipe for rosemary-garlic roasted chicken and gnocchi by recipe developer Ali Slagle, published in the New York Times, is elegant and easy to prepare using ingredients that are in your pantry. The classic combination of chicken, potatoes, rosemary, garlic and lemon never fails to…
I stared at my motionless dryer in disbelief. Undoubtedly my fifteen-year-old clothes dryer had glimpsed the mountains of post-holiday used linens and towels heaped on every surface of my laundry room and decided that it was as good a time as any to bid me “sayonara”. After placing an emergency order for a new dryer, I headed to the local laundromat, lugging baskets (and baskets…) of wet laundry. In between…
You can hear it in a tent, you can hear it from a vent. You can hear it on a corner, you can hear it from a foreigner. You can hear it in an ark, you can hear it in a park. I have listened to the blasts of the shofar in almost all of these locations over the past two years. This Rosh Hashana, I was overjoyed to reunite…