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Recipes Sukkot Meals: Sweet and Sour Stuffed Onions
Stuffed vegetables are a central part of the Jewish culinary canon, but growing up I thought they were limited to cabbage and peppers. Only when I moved to Israel did I come to appreciate the sheer multitude of vegetables that can be stuffed — peppers and cabbage yes, but also tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, eggplant, onions,…
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Life Grandma’s Gefilte Fish
Every year just before Rosh Hashanah, my mother and I engage in a ritual attempt to approximate my grandmother’s gefilte fish recipe. The recipe itself is an approximation. She cobbled it together from other Holocaust survivors, and perhaps gleaned a few tips from women in a displaced persons’ camp, perhaps remembering bits from what her…
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Recipes Mixing Bowl: The Rosh Hashanah Edition
Fig, Olive Oil and Sea Salt Challah. Need we say more? Smitten Kitchen An oldie, but a goodie. Apple Raisin Challah. [Epicurious] Rosh Hashanah, international style. Check out a round up of recipes from Turkey, Iran, Syria and India. [Serious Eats]( http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/09/rosh-hashanah-recipes-international-turkish-persian-indian-syrian-recipes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseatsfeaturesvideos+%28Serious+Eats%29 ‘Rosh Hashanah, international style. Check out a round up of recipes from Turkey,…
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Recipes Rosh Hashanah Cookies for the Gods
I live in Queens, NY, a true melting pot of ethnic cuisines. All the unique and distinct flavors of places like Thailand, India, Greece and China inspire me – I eat the food at authentic restaurants around the borough, and then bring the flavors home with me, incorporating the ingredients and methods in my home…
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Recipes A 500 Year Old Rosh Hashanah Recipe
As soon as September starts, my mind turns to high holiday cooking and the intoxicating smells of one my Sephardic family’s favorite dishes – Salade de Piments, more widely known as matbucha. It is a transporting elixir of garlicky, semi-caramelized roasted peppers and tomatoes. Layered with smoky, piquant and subtly sweet flavors, it’s a perfect…
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Recipes Mixing Bowl: Ruth Reichl’s Matzo Brei; Shabbat Chicken
The secret to feeding a picky child? Matzo brei says Ruth Reichl. [Gilt Taste] Serious Eats hung out with one of our favorite chefs, Israeli-New Yorker Einat Admony. Check out their great Q and A. [Serious Eats] To Market, To Market. Take a tour of a Schwartz’s Kosher Supermarket in Williamsburg and see what Old…
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Recipes Rosh Hashanah, Indian Style
As I contemplated my Rosh Hashanah dinner this year, memories of my childhood growing up in Israel came sweeping over me. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, in the afternoon hours, my mom would send my siblings and me to make a quick run to the corner grocer before the owner closed down the shop….
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Recipes Bite Your Tongue!
Like many American Jews who came of age in the late 20th century, I thought tongue was the grossest of meats. Chicken fingers and hamburgers were more my speed, and I could tolerate a spoonful of creamy chopped liver if I didn’t think about it. But beef tongue, the economy cut once prized at Catskill…
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