Welcome to the Forward’s collection of Jewish food recipes.
Welcome to the Forward’s collection of Jewish food recipes.
Welcome to the Forward’s collection of Jewish food recipes.
Welcome to the Forward’s collection of Jewish food recipes.
Israeli-born Tal Ronnen orchestrated Oprah Winfrey’s highly publicized 21-day vegan cleanse in 2013. He catered Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s 2008 wedding after years as their private chef. But these days, he’s more concerned with spreading the gospel of veg to the masses. And in the new Mediterranean-themed cookbook (Artisan), named for his white-hot…
Serves 8-12 Zucchini can be watery and lacking in flavor or texture, so when Scot proposed putting a vegetable lasagna that featured zucchini on the menu, I was skeptical. But the flavors he builds into this lasagna are extraordinary. It’s an Italian flag on a plate — green pesto, white almond ricotta and rich red…
Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov spends five nights a week manning the bread station at his popular Philadelphia restaurant Zahav. His new cookbook shows readers how to reproduce the prized pita and laffa at home. Michael Solomonov and business partner Steven Cook may have opened nearly a dozen Philadelphia restaurants in the past decade, but Chef…
This salad contains homemade pickled onions, which wake up a slew of recipes. Chef Michael Solomonov came up with them because he realized raw onions didn’t always appeal to the American palate. “So the quick-pickle treatment is really attractive,” he said. “You can eat a bunch of it. It’s nice, it’s refreshing, but it’s still…
This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a new cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through “The New Kosher,” by Kim Kushner. Related Cinnamon-Chocolate Pound Cake With Greek Yogurt (below) The…
A fast and easy fish recipe to make for company from “The New Kosher” by Kim Kushner. Related Serves 6 1 teaspoon grapeseed oil 6 skinless halibut fillets, about 6 ounces each Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper 2 scallions, white and pale green parts, each cut crosswise into 4 equal pieces 2 cups (4½…
When I was growing up in the 1950s, none of my friends had a sukkah in the backyard and I do not recall one at our synagogue. In fact, I do not recall a single thing about the holiday of Sukkot from my childhood. Like many families of my generation with a token association to…
When Forward food editor Liza Schoenfein made this delicious dish (featured in ), she used leftover cooked rice for the filling, reduced the amount of brown sugar to 3 tablespoons for a less sweet sauce, opted for currants instead of raisins and left out the ginger snaps. The results were fantastic. Related Stuffed Cabbage, Revisited…
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