Like many modern American families, the faces around my dinner table have changed as family members pass on, others leave for, and then return from, college and new members join our family through marriage. With each of those alterations, our religious and culinary traditions transformed, morphing to fit our new family. But, Shabbat dinner —…
Thanks to my boyfriend Matt, I am now completely addicted to the Food Network. Matt and I often spend time glued to the television, brainstorming what we might create on “Chopped” with a certain mystery basket of ingredients. We get excited about what Canadian chef Chuck Hughes whips up on his day off. We even…
I’d usually get the call on Thursday night or Friday morning from my Israeli relatives Ariella and Yehudit. “Come over for Shabbat,” they’d say to me, not asking so much as insisting. With family in Israel, I found, there’s no need for prior notice or formal invitations to a meal. Family, like everything in Israel…
I had already been living in New Haven for close to five months when my parents came to visit for the first time. Whenever I cooked in the enormous, sunflower-yellow Le Creuset Dutch oven they sent as a housewarming gift or wondered where to hang a piece of art, their absence from my new home…
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….
Fish: Baked Fish Provençal Fish Heads Over Rice Fligls Fried Gefilte Fish Gefilte Fish a la Veracruzana (Mexican Fried Fish Balls in Spicy Tomato Sauce) Gefilte Fish in Pomegranate and Horseradish Sauce Grandma Ruth and Jeffrey’s Recipe Gravlax Merluza Con Guisantes (Merluza With Snowpeas) Olive Oil Poached Alaskan Salmon, Potato Latke, Horseradish Crème Fraiche Pesce…
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This is a traditional Soviet party dish, so put on your party hat, cause it’s gonna be GRATE! (Sorry, I just can’t help myself. Bad puns are like a disease.) You’ll need: A can of your favorite fish. I used сайра (sorry; I don’t know how to say it in English!), which looks a lot…
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