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shavuot lunch

My Shavuot Lunch with Menu and Recipes

Indian Flavors

Rinku Bhattacharya Indian Flavors. Book Review

Indian Flavors Magic! Spices and Seasons. Simple, Sustainable Indian Flavors Rinku Bhattacharya's much-anticipated beautiful new book, will be hitting the shelves in May. Spices and Seasons. Simple, Sustainable Indian Flavors. It lives…
mexikosher

Visit to Mexikosher LA Restaurant Review

Mexikosher: With Talented Chef Katsuji Tanabe Let me start by saying the food at Mexikosher is fresh, delicious and plentiful, the chef is talented, the price is right, and everyone working there is helpful and nice. The reason I am posting…
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Low Carb Diet: Thoughts, Menus and Recipes

Low Carb Diet, even with High-Carb Cravings Low Carb Diet = austerity and the end of the high-carb good times. Right? Wrong! please read on: you may remain on your newfound High Fat Low Carb diet, and never look back! When my son Maimon…
moroccan tajines

Moroccan Tajines One Two and Turmeric Recipes.

Moroccan Tajine Stovetop  Recipes. One, Two and Turmeric. Meat and Fish Variations This giant chapter on low-maintenance Moroccan Tajines is taken almost verbatim from my latest cookbook, The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen. Read it cover to cover,…
holiday kosher baker

The Holiday Kosher Baker, by Paula Shoyer. Cookbook Review

The Holiday Kosher Baker, by Paula Shoyer. Cookbook Review My copy of Paula's gorgeous new cookbook arrived a couple days ago. All I can say is, thank Goodness that admiring pictures of her fabulous desserts and reading about them is somehow…
Party menu ideas

Simchat Torah: Party Menu Ideas. All Recipes

Party Menu Ideas: We love to host the very last meal of Tishrei, Simchat Torah. Great big bash. I am only too aware that hosting that meal always get tricky. Everyone errs on the tipsy and raucous side, and it gets to be be a late late lunch.…
apple recipes
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Say it with Apple Recipes for a Great New Year

Apple Recipes: What better way to express it? Wishing You All a  Wonderful Happy Healthy Delicious Fun Prosperous Productive Peaceful New Year! The following Apple Recipes are my Rosh Hashanah gift to everyone, beside of course my Complete…
Mahia
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Mahia (Eau de Vie) Nahmias et Fils.

Mahia Nahmias et Fils: Drink - and eat - to your health! I recently had the pleasure of meeting Dorit and David Nahmias, distillers extraordinaire, of Mahia and Rye Whisky at Nahmias et Fils: their Mahia is fabulous! It doesn't hurt one bit…

Demo Menus

The Good Junk. From Scratch Wins the Race!

  Bison burgers with all toppings Cole slaw Fresh corn salad Baked fish sticks with cocktail sauce Barbecued baked beans Apple crumb pie  

Biblical Feast

Trout baked in grape leaves Chicken with pomegranate sauce Date-nut bread Barley pilaf with kabocha squash and raisins Almond, olive oil and honey spread Warm fig tart

The Natural Feast

Mock crab coconut miso soup with rice noodles Red cabbage salad with avocado and carrots Black bean, pumpkin and chestnut pudding Poached chicken breasts with mock hollandaise sauce Chocolate-dipped fruit