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Recipes Georgian Eggplant Rolls With Walnut and Herb Filling
These look like Italian involtini, but the filling is unique and typically Georgian: pureed walnuts perfumed with fresh herbs (parsley and cilantro), garlic and vinegar. When pomegranates are in season, add fresh pomegranate seeds for crunch and flavor. I got this recipe from Marina Toporiya, a Georgian cook who used to own a modest restaurant…
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Recipes Moroccan Spicy Carrot Salad
Photograph by Daniel Lailah To make this simple and tasty meze salad you will need two typical North African condiments — pickled lemons and harissa. Both can be made at home or bought at specialty food stores or Middle Eastern groceries, and both will prove useful and versatile additions to your pantry. Serves 6 to…
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Recipes I’ve Taken Liberties With Roberta Greenberg’s Brisket
Photograph by Hathaway_M; Flickr Out of all the recipes in my cookbook, “The Brisket Book. A Love Story With Recipes” (Andrews McMeel), only one came with a blessing. It is the Temple Emanu-El Brisket from home cook Roberta Greenberg, the longtime assistant to the rabbis at this well-known New York synagogue. I found Ms. Greenberg’s…
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Recipes Recipe Redux: Temple Emanu-El Brisket 6.0
You’re reading the recipe below right — it’s full of strikeouts and add-ins that match the red-pen amendments the author made to the recipe in her own cookbook (above). After making the original at least 20 times, she feels she’s improved on what was already near-perfection. Photograph by Stephanie Pierson Serves 8 to 10 One…
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Recipes Temple Emanu-El Brisket: The Original
The recipe, as it appears in Stephanie Pierson’s “The Brisket Book.” The author has since revised it. Photograph by Stephanie Pierson Serves 8 to 10 One 4- to 5-pound beef brisket 2 teaspoons garlic powder 1 teaspoon paprika Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 4 large onions, peeled and cut into eighths Two 14-ounce…
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Recipes A Brisket Blessing
I saved the email Rabbi Posner sent me giving permission to use Roberta Greenberg’s Temple Emanu-El brisket recipe because it was so charming. It read: “You have my heart-felt blessing to use the recipe. I ran this, of course, by my wife, of 41 years. She said, “Davey…what about my recipe for “Steak Continental?” I…
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Recipes One-Spice Magic
Photograph by Liza Schoenfein Spices have the incredible potential to transform a simple dish, and you don’t need a mélange of them to create tremendous flavor. Add cumin to hummus; paprika to fish; or cinnamon to brisket and these foods take on a life of their own as a single spice works its magic. I…
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Recipes Paprika Chicken With Chickpeas and Zucchini
This savory dish proves the power of letting one spice do its job. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein Related 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 medium onions, peeled and roughly chopped 2 cups cooked or canned chickpeas, rinsed 1 heaping tablespoon paprika, plus more for sprinkling 1 small bunch of parsley, chopped 1 teaspoon flaky salt…
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