Onion Pletzl


own square. Onion Pletzl as a superannuated onion roll, a sandwich bread fit for Gulliver the Giant. Pletzl means square in Yiddish as in town square and this bread is square, albeit imperfectly so. Think of it as Sicilian pizza with the sauce and cheese replaced by raw onions. According to Arthur Schwartz, the author … Continue reading

Creamiest Homemade Humous


Humous, the Arabic name for chickpea pate along with it’s close cousins tehina and matboucha has become a Jewish food. In Jerusalem , in Bnai Brak, in Boro Park ,in Monsey, all over the Jewish world Shabbos doesnt seem quite right without the so called dips course, a Jewish variation on the Middle Eastern mezze, … Continue reading