Mia-Rut
By Mia-Rut
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Food Culinary Memories of a Sweet and Sour Iraq
The elderly woman steps up to her stove, quite agile for her 80-something years and pushes aside the platter of fried fish fillets we are not quite ready for. “Now you put [in] the sour,” she says to me dipping her fingers into the plastic spice jar and sprinkling the powder into the bubbling sauce….
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News Yid.Dish: Seitan Feijoada (yup, it’s Kosher and Vegan)
My boyfriend is Brazilian. To look at him you’d probably think he was Middle Eastern, with his dark complexion. He speaks with an American accent that is very South Florida, but none-the-less he was born in Brazil. Last week for no particular reason I wanted to surprise him with a Brazilian inspired meal. However, most…
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News Yid.Dish: Miss Conni’s Cold Pear Soup
A couple of weeks ago my boyfriend and I enjoyed an amazing night out of some fun avant garde theater and some really yummy food at Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant (which is having another performance this Monday at Joe’s Pub). What was really quite enjoyable was that the menu was built into the script and…
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News Yid.Dish: Friends (Chevre) Cheesecake
There is a cheesecake sitting in my (boyfriend’s) refrigerator right now. At some point late last week I got it in my head that with Shavuot just around the corner I should make a cheesecake. Since I’m doing a time-share with my boyfriend’s kitchen, permission had to be granted by the relevant roommates, which was…
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News Yid.Dish: Eli and Blair’s Dill Pickles
Legend would have it, two years ago the ADAMAH, Jewish Environmental Fellowship at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, had an overabundance of cucumbers. One of the Fellows, Zelig Golden (also the co-chair of this conference) was unhappy with simply composting the unused vegetables and began making pickles from the extra veggies. Pickling is really…
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News Yid.Dish: Autumn Cholent (Choose Your Adventure)
The holidays have been a lot of fun coming together, making new friends, eating, not eating, eating in a temporary shelter and somewhere in all the midst of that, one really terrific brunch after my sister’s wedding. But I have to say, except for that brunch, I haven’t been doing too much cooking. And frankly…
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