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Recipes Easy, Aromatic Turkey-Chickpea Stew
This fragrant, soul-satisfying dish is fast enough to make on a weeknight. If you don’t have lemongrass, don’t sweat it — the ginger, garlic and spices make it flavorful enough, though lemongrass does add an herbal-meets-citrus element that’s like nothing else. And if you don’t have fresh ginger, powdered works too — though you will…
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Food Meet the Ginger Spice Lady
After tainted Mexican food left her decimated with hepatitis A – and unable to take medication, despite unbearable symptoms – Cathy Shapiro went online. Ginger kept popping up as the preschool teacher searched for natural remedies. And those queries jogged Shapiro’s memories of her long-gone Polish-born bubbe. “She used to put a paste of ginger…
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Culture ‘South Park’ and the Jewish Red Heifer Tale of Armageddon
(Haaretz) — South Park’s latest season premiered on Comedy Central on Wednesday, and started with an epic prank pulled by Eric Cartman. He announces he has found a ginger cow (spoiler alert!), though in fact he merely dyed its coat. The news spreads like wildfire. Rabbis fly in from Israel to South Park to claim…
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Culture Israel’s Most Beautiful — and Unforgettable — Redheads
(Haaretz) — Back and forth, I run my eyes over each of these redheads − blue eyes, brown eyes, green-yellow eyes; and hair that is golden, orange, copper, flame-like, auburn fire, persimmon, reddish-brown − and I know that this is just one good idea. I know, too, that it is not unique, that it has…
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News Yid.Dish: Mango Ginger Tofu
4 – 6 servings For the marinade: 3 cloves garlic 1 jalepeno, seeded and chopped 1/4 cup fresh ginger, roughly chopped 2 teaspoons peanut oil or veg oil 2 large mangos, roughly chopped (note: you will need one more mango when cooking the tofu, see below) 1/4 cup pure maple syrup 1 cup white cooking…
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News Yid.Dish: French Toast with Ginger and Pears
Serves 2 Pear compote with ginger and agave nectar 1 large or 2 small bosc pears, chopped 1 Tbs agave nectar (maple syrup would work too, but might overpower the pears) 1/2 tsp ginger powder 1 Tbs water 1 1/2 tsp finely chopped crystalized ginger (optional) Note: make the compote first – while it’s cooking,…
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