When I sat down to write about stuffed cabbage I imagined the paean I’d compose to this East European Jewish classic. First I would explain the deep mystical meaning behind this delicacy alternatively known as holopches, galupches, tutued kaposta or kruv memuleh depending on where in the Ashkenazi Jewish world one traces one’s roots. After … Continue reading
This job takes under five minutes to complete This will eventually morph into farfel! Forget the Siberian Tiger and the Mountain Gorilla! There’s something far important that may be vanishing from the planet—farfel.. The once ubiquitous gravel shaped noodle known as the Ba’al Shem Tov’s tzimmes is almost nearly extinct, replaced on our Shabbos and Yuntif … Continue reading
Back when I was a kid and I wanted to know what we were having for dinner, my mother’s response would often be “chaloimes mit lukshen” (literally noodles with dreams). For a long time, my brother and I both thought this was some kind of food. Though we weren’t quite sure what food, we were … Continue reading
It’s the Nine Days, when cooking options are severely curtailed and I’ve been craving cabbage noodles. That’s the name my mother uses for the archetypical European dish alternatively known as káposztás tészta, Kraut Lukshen, or Kraut Pletzlach. It’s perfect for this week because it is pareve and filling. Thought cabbage noodles was a mostly because it’s … Continue reading
When I was growing up,(even when I was a young adult—which I’m not anymore. What is 52, an old adult, a young senior?) I thought I’d never make Hungarian fruit soup. It was part of my childhood, a dish my mother had brought over from Europe which like gribenes and fleishig eggs and jellied carp … Continue reading
