Our answer to Gefilte Fish, easy, fragrant and delicious. No problem making this recipe substituting ground beef, bison or lamb, and proceeding exactly as instructed below. Ingredients: Cooking liquid: 2 tablespoons oil Good pinch saffron threads 1 teaspoon turmeric 3 cups water Fish mixture: 1 small onion, quartered 1 small bunch parsley 1 egg 2 [...]

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In this fabulous dinner, you will be hard-pressed to pick your favorite dish: each one is a star! If you have a special occasion in mind, I can’t think of a better place to bring your guests along. I will be demonstrating: Roasted tomato soup Chilled salmon roulade with tehina sauce Beef stew with wild [...]

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Summer rolls are those delightful paper-thin rice disks that you dip in warm water to soften (no cooking!), fill with virtually anything you like, roll and dip in the sauce of your choice: I love the suggested Thai dipping sauce, but you could use Teryaki sauce, or even a mixture of toasted sesame oil and [...]

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No need to be Chinese to master the art of handling nori, summer or spring roll leaves, wonton skins. Steaming, rolling, frying, crimping, dipping? No problem: All in a day’s work! I’ll be demonstrating: Vegetable sushi Mock crab summer rolls Cabbage mushroom spring rolls Chicken dumplings with dipping sauce Cold sesame noodles in martini cups [...]

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This treat might cure you of all misguided urges you might have to open a can and find a dozen insipid ready-to-eat grape leave rolls: Instead, spend a few minutes on the preparation of these fabulous gems, and enjoy them with family and friends! You can stuff the leaves with anything, meat, fish or vegetarian, [...]

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Do grape leaves, fillo dough and puff pastry dough intimidate you? There’s nothing to it! We Sephardis grew up using them almost daily! Perfect for parties. After this demo you are sure to be the hostess with the mostess who doesn’t stress! We are making a feast, complete with dessert! I will be demonstrating: Lamb, [...]

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This improbable ingredient combination results in an incredibly moist and fragrant cake. It is important to use a shallow mold here, like a pie plate, no higher than 2 inches high, so the syrup that is poured at the end of baking reaches all the way to the bottom. Those of you who use Matza [...]

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I admit it: I was in a mad scientist mood when I dreamed this up: The ingredients are as weird as it gets. Still, a star was born! All natural, and no cooking whatsoever! Just listen to what my son Yakov wrote me: “Ma, your unlikely bean-coconut concoction pudding (I think that’s what you should [...]

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My first and most enduring culinary love. I am going heavy on our kitchen rock stars: Lemons and olives: simple and healthy seductions for pennies! Gluten-free to boot! I’ll be demonstrating: Eggplant pepper salad with preserved lemons Lemon olive chicken Roast salmon and vegetables Fava bean soup Cornmeal almond cake with lemon syrup CLICK HERE [...]

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I developed this wonderful recipe to accommodate Kosher diners after a meat meal as well as dairy-intolerant diners. Although it is delicious as is, feel free to substitute dairy ice cream (premium please!) for the sorbet, keeping the color scheme monochromatic:  Vanilla, coffee, chocolate. I tried with a red layer (strawberry) and found it disrupted [...]

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