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A Healthy Meal Between Holidays
Roasted wild salmon over lentils. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein. I’m always aware that the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is a high-calorie danger zone, so I tend to be fairly mindful. I just realized that I’m usually less conscious — and therefore less careful — between Purim and Passover. But here we are, sandwiched…
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WATCH: Schmear Lunacy!
Watch and learn, people. Watch and learn. You know, I just wasn’t getting enough calories and fat from the regular slick of cream cheese I usually spread on my bagel. The right way, it turns out, ups the ante considerably — and involves power tools. Before you dress up another bagel for Sunday brunch, take…
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Recipes A Deli Man’s Famous Stuffed Cabbage
Third-generation deli man and former New Yorker Ziggy Gruber serves this stuffed cabbage at his Houston delicatessen, Kenny & Ziggy’s. Image: Facebook Makes 6-8 pieces of stuffed cabbage For the sauce 2 cans chopped tomatoes 2 tablespoons tomato puree 2 cups onions roughly chopped 2 cups brown sugar 1 tablespoon paprika ½ cup white vinegar…
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Digging Into Jewish Food With Wandering Chew
Katherine Romanow (left) and Sydney Warshaw of Wandering Chew. Photograph by Lauren Kolyn. They’re not trained as chefs. They haven’t cooked in restaurants. But Sydney Warshaw and Katherine Romanow are becoming two of the biggest machers in Montreal’s burgeoning Jewish food scene. As The Wandering Chew, the duo stages pop-up events that “try to teach…
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Recipes Hamantaschen Plus Math Equals Mathmataschen!
Photograph by Deborah Gardner Just a few hours before Purim, I came across this awesome creation on the blog Seattle Local Food, and just had to share it. For the non-math nerds among us, it’s a hamantaschen created using a mathematical principle known as the Sierpinski triangle. Here’s how Deborah Gardner breaks it down: You…
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Recipes The Perfect Purim Cocktail, Named for Esther
Since she can’t rename the holiday itself, our columnist comes up with a cocktail to honor her Purim heroine. Presenting… The Esther. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein. By now we’ve clearly established that when a Jewish holiday comes along, I will not know a thing about it. What I appreciate about my lack of formal religious…
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The Weekly Dish
Petite Shell’s kosher rugelach. Photograph by Liz Arronson Rueven/KosherLikeMe.com. …Manhattan’s Petite Shell, whose kosher rugelach have become a bona fide phenomenon among New York foodies, was named one of the city’s best coffee shops by Eater this week. While Eater waxed rhapsodic about Petite Shell’s dulce de leche mini-croissants, the real draw here is what…
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Recipes Watch and Learn: Ben’s Best Potato Pancakes
Watch Jay Parker of Ben’s Best Deli in Rego Park, Queens, make potato pancakes. Then try it yourself. Makes 10 large potato pancakes 3 pounds (9 medium) white all purpose potatoes, peeled ½ pound (1 large) yellow onion 3 large eggs 1¾ teaspoon kosher salt ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper 1…
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Recipes Chocolate Hamantaschen Filled With Serious Fun
The author wondered why chocolate was usually left out of the dough of a classic Purim treat. Photograph by Tami Ganeles/Weiser/The Weiser Kitchen. Chocolate is in many ways the quintessential example of a food that is both Old and New World. Cacao, the bean from which chocolate is derived, was well known to both the…
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Recipes Chocolate-Chili Hamantaschen With Dulce de Leche Filling
Sweet, creamy dulce de leche — a rich Latino caramel — is a wonderful counterpoint to chocolate’s slightly bitter edge. The warmth of ground chilies hits the palate last. This is a great cookie for adventurous eaters. Photograph by Tami Ganeles-Weiser/The Weiser Kitchen. Makes 36 cookies For the dough: 3½ cups unbleached, all-purpose flour, plus…
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Recipes Chocolate-Nutella Halvah Hamantaschen
Chocolate and halvah are a perfect pairing, and this cookie, fudgy and rich, is as delicious as it sounds. Photograph by Tami Ganeles/Weiser/The Weiser Kitchen. Yields 36 cookies For the dough: 4¾ cups all-purpose flour ⅓ cup cocoa powder 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter 3½ cups granulated…
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