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My mother would saute mushrooms, onions, celery and carrots and either mix them with challah for her Thanksgiving stuffing or with matzot during Passover. It is a very simple combination but if the onions are caramelized to the perfect stage and the mushrooms are flavorful, you end up with a really good kugel. Manya’s Mushroom Kugel […]
For the next fourteen days I will be devoting my post to one Passover recipe a day. Who has time for stories? Hope you try them and enjoy them. This recipe for Persian Charoset was given to me by a friend many years ago. One of the wonderful culinary influences in Los Angeles is that […]
We are now three weeks away from Passover. This is the first time in about twenty years that we will be conducting the Seder in the dining room primarily because twelve of us can fit there. No need to empty out the living room, order extra tables, rent cloths and napkins. Yet instead of being happy about […]
It is Sunday morning, March 13th, 2011. My plan was to bake Hamantachen today, allowing for enough time to ship them to New York and Florida. I am still going to bake, but things feel different. In the background the radio is turned to NPR, reporting on the situation in Japan. There is a […]
One of the things I enjoy is seeing how recipes change after arriving on foreign shores, much like the people who carry those family treasures with them. Several weeks ago our friends Susan and Isaac stopped by on a Saturday afternoon. Although our friends were born in Mexico, their parents were immigrants who hailed from […]
One of the wonderful things about this blog is that I am getting e-mails from family and friends who want to share their recipes. Recipes that they are clearly proud of. This recipe for whole wheat bread was sent to me by my sister-in-law Fern, who lives in Bet Shemesh, Israel. Recently retired from her professional […]
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