My mother always served Intagashlinganah Borsht at lunch on the second day of Pesach but I never knew why. It certainly wasn’t to please me. I mean which kid, especially a non Russian one likes borsht? Even my husband who is a blessedly non picky eater still complains about how his parents served it at his … Continue reading
When I discovered that my formerly lovely red delicious apples were growing soft brown patches on their sides I knew it was time to perform cosmetic surgery. No I didn’t botox the fruit, I pared off the ugly patches, shredded the healthy flesh and gave my apples a new lease on life as apple muffins. My salvage operation … Continue reading
When I was newly married my mother in law gave me with her tattered and yellowing copy of Evelyn Rose’s Complete International Jewish Cookbook. I suppose some brides would have been insulted at being given an old cookbook, but I was touched. I felt like my mother in law was passing Rose’s and her own cooking legacy onto … Continue reading
Being a born and bred Ashkenazi, I’d never heard of svinge, but then my daughter told me that was the Hanuka treat her Morrocan born mother in law was raised on. That naturally picqued my curiosity and when I saw a recipe for Svinge in the Modia kids section. I had to try it. Svinge … Continue reading
When I discovered this recipe on allthingssimpleblog.com my curiosity was piqued. Onion marmalade? It sounded like an oxymoron or a joke, but there were relatively few steps and the humblest of ingredients, onions, sugar, kosher salt and vinegar, except for one glitch—the vinegar had to be balsamic I didn’t have any at home. That wasn’t … Continue reading
