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…
The arrival of Rosh Hashana next week has caught me flat-footed. It’s been a wonderful summer. Almost unfailingly warm and sunny, it was a perfect time to visit with family and friends, smell the roses, and read my way through the stack of books beckoning from my bedside table. Regrettably (not really), none of these pursuits was conducive to filling my freezer with family holiday favorites, such as, split pea…
Looking forward to the grandkids joining us for Shabbat, I thought long and hard about the menu. How would I entice them to join us at the dining room table when their most requested meal is invariably macaroni and cheese? When I saw this recipe for honey-mustard chicken tenders by recipe developer, Ali Slagle, published in the New York Times, I felt a glimmer of hope. But chicken tenders are…