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I have been making this particular recipe for over 35 years, since my daughter Shira was in pre-school and Rosa, one of the Moms, shared it with me. I used to make challah fairly regularly when the kids were growing up, but then Norm started making it, and I pretty much stopped, other than for […]
It is the fourth day of Chanukah and, for Los Angeles, it is cold, gray and dreary. I decided that instead of latkes, I’ll make soup. One of those hearty filling soups that only needs a good piece of bread to go with it, and a glass of red wine. I first tasted this dish […]
Even though I should be focusing on Thanksgiving, yesterday I spent three hours making Pierogi for the first time, and froze them to serve for Shabbat after the big day. Having eaten some last week in NYC, they have been on my mind ever since. So after having our fill of food that we have […]
There are so many things that I love about summer, one of them is blueberries. More than any other fruit, you pretty much can find them in my fridge all summer long. Another is eating outside. As an adult I have discovered how much I love eating outdoors, with the long summer days and warm weather, […]
Yesterday, just about a week before Pesach (Passover), my kitchen and dining room table were covered in flour. Mounds of dough were portioned out around the edge of the table, potatoes were boiling in the kitchen, and salad ingredients were being chopped on every available surface. My daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, is involved in an organization called […]
Over the past three nights I have watched Cooked, a series based on the book of the same title by Michael Pollan and I am hooked, on Cooked. In the first episode I learned that Americans are spending less time cooking than ever before, no surprise, but more time watching food-related cooking shows, which I did find surprising. It’s been a […]
Moshe Blatman was my cousin’s brother-in-law, and on my first trip to Israel I was told to make sure to visit him, that he was like family. He and his wife Frieda lived in an apartment in Tel Aviv, and owned a small cosmetics shop on Rehov Shenken, (in the 70s it was not as […]
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