Nina Budabin McQuown
By Nina Budabin McQuown
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News Yid.Dish: Halva, Two Ways (Raw and Pumpkin)
Raw Halva: Recipe from Arrowhead Mills 1/2 cup Sesame Seeds (ground) 2 tablespoons Sesame Seeds (whole) 3 tablespoons Raw honey 1/4 cup Sesame Tahini (use the driest part of the jar) 1/8 teaspoon Almond extract Grind 1/2 cup seeds in a blender. Mix ground seeds, whole seeds, tahini, honey and extract in a bowl all…
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News Yid.Dish: Baked Eggs San Francisco
The Hazon food conference was my first trip out to California, and boy did I fall in love. After a few days hiking in Big Sur, where sheer cliffs dropped down hundreds of feet to the blue ocean, foam rising rhythmically around small mountains of eroded rock, stretching as far as we could see, I…
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News Yid.Dish: Green Tomato Chutney
You can only eat fried green tomatoes so many times before that best of unripened delicacies starts to wear on the nerves and the stomach lining. Here, courtesy of urban gardener and farmer’s market maven Zoe Plaugher, is a sticky, brown, vinegary, sweet, spicy and tart chutney that will put those last premature tomatoes to…
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News Yid.Dish: Sweet Potato Pancakes
Sweet potatoes could be the mascot of the sustainable foods movement. Packed with nutrition, including more than twice the daily suggested serving of vitamin A, antioxidants, protein, iron, potassium and other hard to get minerals, sweet potatoes provide a huge benefit to calorie ratio. They taste wonderful, they’re even anti-inflammatory, which can help mitigate inflammation-related…
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News Yid.Dish: Apple Butter and Anise Bread
Yom Kippur stirs my strongest Jewish food memory – it’s strange, but true. Since I was in the single digits I can remember walking to Ne’ila services with my mother and father, carrying a bag filled with two essential components of our holiday inside. One was a three-pound sack of apples, the then ubiquitous McIntosh…
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News Yid.Dish: Squash Butter
Approx. 3 1/2 cups of pureed winter squash 3/4 cup apple juice or cider 2 teaspoons ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1 1/3 cups brown sugar 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg Juice of half a lemon Combine pumpkin, apple juice, spices, and sugar in a large saucepan; stir well. Bring mixture…
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News Yid.Dish: Sage Jelly
Make an infusion of 4 T dried or 8 T chopped fresh sage leaves and one cup of boiling water, simmered together for about ten minutes, uncovered. Strain through a cloth strainer for about ½ cup sage infusion. Add to this: 3 ½ cups granulated sugar (I sometimes reduce the sugar in her recipes) 1…
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News Yid.Dish: Israeli Chocolate-Coated Orange Peels
Israeli Chocolate-Coated Orange Peels From About.com You’ll want to use low spray or organic oranges for this recipe, if you can find them, since the peel of the orange absorbs the toxins sprayed on the fruit. If low or no spray oranges are used, you may be able to skip or shorten the first soaking…
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