Home Made Chrain


As far as I can tell there  isn’t any mystical reason  for eating gefilte fish with chrain, no kaballah about the fish being white as in mercy and the chrain being red as in judgment. The pairing is  purely a matter of taste,–the sweetish relatively bland fish contrasting with the fiery sauce though it must be pointed out … Continue reading »

Home Made Pasta: A Bad Idea


A curse on your head Martha Stewart, Maybe not a curse but perhaps  a friendly pigeon could fly above you and do what pigeons do on top of your perfectly streaked coif. I want revenge.  Frankly Martha,  I’m good and mad In your cookbook, the old one, that came our before food porn and coffee table cookbooks, you … Continue reading »

World’s Easiest BBQ Sauce


Like nearly everyone else in this country, my kids got the barbeque bug last night. Me, I was dog tired after standing on a nearly endless line at Osher Ad (remember endless bliss) supermarket… The truth is that the wait wasn’t really so bad. I struck up a conversation with a lovely woman from  Samara, not Samarkand … Continue reading »