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Bean Chili with Kohlrabi
Serves: 6 An unusual ingredient for chili — kohlrabi (pictured)— lends its sweetness and light crunch to this dish. If you can’t find the vegetable, broccoli stems can be substituted. Just remove the florets and reserve for another dish, and chop the stems in small pieces before adding to the chili in Step 2 (they…
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Decorate your Sukkah with bread? The story of kaak
When your Yom Kippur break the fast bread becomes your Sukkah decoration, you know that you are looking at kaak, Arabic for cookie. These double-baked crunchy mini-rounds have a long shelf life and are generally pareve, they appear at celebratory moments of Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur break the fast and Shabbat brunch. Easy to…
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Decorate Your Sukkah with Bread? The Story of Kaak
When your Yom Kippur break the fast bread becomes your Sukkah decoration, you know that you are looking at _kaak _, Arabic for cookie. These double-baked crunchy mini-rounds have a long shelf life and are generally pareve, they appear at celebratory moments of Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur break the fast and Shabbat brunch. Easy…
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Kaak, or Crunchy Middle Eastern Yeast Biscuits
Prep time: 1 hour Rising time: 2 hours and 20 minutes Baking time: 40 minutes Yield: about 50 rings Adapted from “Encyclopedia of Jewish Food” by Gil Marks INGREDIENTS 1 package or 2 ¼ teaspoons dry yeast 1 ⅓ cups warm water (105-115º F) this includes the ¼ cup used with the yeast mix 1…
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Shawarma Stuffed Peppers With Tahini and Herbs
I’ve made these a couple of different ways: one with rice and one with cauliflower rice. Rice absorbs the juices and binds the filling together nicely while the filling in the cauliflower version stays a bit loose and juicy. Juicy Lucy. I personally prefer the texture of the rice version but the cauliflower version is…
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Confetti Vegetable and Goat Cheese Lasagna
Serves: 8 to 10 This large, colorful lasagna shows off the bounty of garden vegetables! Although it is a bit of a project, it is rewarding to make for a large party or potluck or even for a week’s worth of meals. It can also be cut up into sections after baking and cooling, wrapped…
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Moroccan Fish
It is most befitting that my fish chapter starts with my all time favorite fish recipe. Although my grandmother is mentioned many times throughout this book, no dish brings her memory flooding back to me like this one. Scooping up the sauce with a piece of challah while nudging a piece of the tender fish…
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(Spiked) Watermelon Ices
Refreshing, easy to make, and loved by children and adults alike. 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 1 (8 pound) watermelon, cut up 1¼ cup lime juice (from 8–9 limes) To Make This Entire Batch Into a Frozen Watermelon Margarita: 3 cups tequila ¼ teaspoon Maldon salt Place a large sieve over a large bowl….
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Not a Lower East Side Knish
Second only to “Pigs” in Blankets, I love a good knish — especially our roti knish: creamy-savory potato filling encased in a thin layer of ultraflaky dough. It is the perfect finger food. Using sheets of store-bought premade roti dough helps you knock these babies out fast. (Frozen roti dough is available at some grocery…
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Chefs share recipes for Sukkot, the outdoor holiday we need right now
By its very nature as a harvest festival, Sukkot is the Jewish holiday of our dreams, the one least affected by restrictions imposed by the coronavirus on this year’s observances. Whereas Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur found so many families sitting before computer screens attempting to follow services and share meals virtually, Sukkot promises the…
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Apple Bread
When apples are abundant in the fall, this bread makes a tasty and seasonal treat. For a heartier loaf, use all whole wheat flour, or experiment with half whole wheat and half all-purpose. Try the bread toasted for breakfast or as an after-school snack. Makes: 1 loaf Unsalted butter for pan 2 large eggs 1…
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