Cholent
The Secret Ingredients For The Perfect Cholent: From Coke To Falafel Balls
From beer to liquid smoke, people are putting some interesting things in their cholents.
11 Savory Stews For Cozy Fall Cooking
From lamb stew and boeuf Bourguignon to chicken tagine, these hearty, cozy, delicious dishes are perfect for the cool evenings ahead.
Eating Kitniyot This Week? 8 Recipes From Top Jewish Food Bloggers
Got the green-light to eat rice, beans and legumes? Here are some dishes to incorporate into your Passover-week menus.
A Vegan Cholent for Next Shabbat
This incredible stew combines three different dishes that work well together to make a whole meal. Best of all is the sweet aroma that will fill your house come morning.
Shabbat Meals: Yeshiva Lunch
From time to time I like to dig into my past on the Internet, as many of us do. Sometimes I go digging for details from my old yeshiva in Baltimore, which is difficult, because it doesn’t have much of what you might call a web presence. But recently I came across a Twitter feed identifying itself with the yeshiva. I have no idea who’s behind it (though they did thank me for the follow), and their tweets are not that colorful. Mostly, they report to the Twitterverse the yeshiva’s schedule, and what’s on the menu that evening in the dining room.
Harvard’s Vegetarian Cholent
I spent most of freshman year at Harvard threatening to transfer. I quickly realized college wasn’t going to be a delightful blur of Solo cups, but rather, a lot of solitary lunches. I was tired of the awkward icebreakers, and all I desired was the comfort and familiarity I had enjoyed at home.
Shabbat Meals: Kurdish Hamin Simmers Slowly
Savta Zarifa is the paradigm of a fairy tale grandmother; plump, patient and never far from her kitchen. Unlike characters from Mother Goose stories, she did not bake gingerbread cookies but simmered tangy tomato dumpling soup over a kerosene stove or rolled countless grape leaves with herbs and rice. On Friday she also prepared hamin, a slow cooked stew of wheat berries and meat that permeated the house with the aroma of Shabbat and was enjoyed the following day for lunch.
Surprising Recipes Make a Show at the Manischewitz Cook-Off
Last month on JCarrot, Renee Ghert-Zand uncovered shul cook-offs from New York to the Deep South — whether it’s BBQ, brisket, cholent or holiday foods, Jewish cooks are facing off in fierce and friendly food contests like never before. So one might expect that the mother of all of these, the Man-O-Manischewitz Cook-Off, which bills itself as the only national kosher competition, would focus on Jewish food. But in a surprising way, this year’s contest didn’t.
Shabbat Meals: Spicy Peanut Sauce With Tofu
In my family, Shabbos dinner were always epic. Friday night meant hordes of guests, a continuous parade of delicious food and raucous singing way into the night. These meals were the stuff of legends among our friends. People would finish up their dinners and stroll over to ours, ready to pull up a chair and join us with full confidence that we’d only be up to the gefilte fish. Honestly, it felt like a weekly party — a pre-Monday infusion of rock-out liturgical sing-offs and the most perfect sweet and sour meatballs you could imagine.
