Corrected Link: List of Kosher-for-Passover Restaurants in Israel

Here is the corrected link to eLuna.com, an Israeli kosher food and travel site listing restaurants that will be kosher for Passover.

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Taxi Ride: War Wounds

I scrambled into a taxi in front of Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv. My mind was full of the friend I’d been visiting, but as it was Sunday, I automatically said “Shavua Tov” to the driver (“A good week”).  He began to sing loudly and cheerfully,  “Shavua Tov, shavua tov, Eliyahu Ha Navi.” What the heck [...]

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Windowsill Sage

This one little pot keeps me supplied with everything I need for seasoning and home remedies based on sage. Now it’s flowering – I love it.

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Passover Cooking: Potato Gnocchi

The recipe for these Passover gnocchi has been sitting in my hard drive since last year. No mention of the source – so if anyone recognizes it, please let me know, and I’ll happily acknowledge.
I must say that the texture of these gnocchi is somewhat mealier than the usual, but that didn’t bother my family, [...]

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Passover Cooking: Garlic Chicken (or Turkey) Bites

Thanks to Mirj, of RecipeZaar fame, for this recipe.
Because I can’t leave a recipe alone, I changed a few things. Mirj’s recipe calls for chicken breasts – I used turkey fillets

because I had six frozen ones that needed to get used up. I also added seasonings. Finally, I ran out of plain matzah meal in [...]

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Shopping…

A glimpse of the shuk yesterday.

Lookit all that garlic over there on the right.

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Passover Cooking: Spinach Soup with Roasted Garlic

Can you guys take another recipe starring garlic?
Er…it won’t be the last garlic recipe… One more, and then I’ll stop.
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Many thanks to Amy P. for contributing this dish. I took some liberties with the original recipe, which calls for vegetable stock and more garlic. I had some beef stock on hand and so used that. [...]

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Passover Cooking: Almond-Lemon Macaroons

Big thanks again to Abbi, who directed me to this recipe from NY Times Online. At her suggestion, I dipped the cooled cookies in chocolate, and skipped a long refrigeration stage included in the original instructions. They were so easy to make – I just sort of zipped it all together in between other cooking [...]

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Passover Cooking: Date-Honey Sweet Potatoes

For holiday meals I don’t have to think too much about side dishes. We all love vegetables. Sometimes, though, I want to serve something a little different, something more festive.  One of my readers and commenters, Abbi, suggested drizzling sweet potatoes with Silan – date honey, before roasting. I liked the idea right away, and [...]

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Passover Cooking: Potato Starch Noodles

So how are everyone’s Pesach preparations going? I’ve been printing out some recipes contributed by readers and have started the cooking for the Pre-Passover Event.
To start, let me introduce these old-fashioned soup noodles. Children especially love them, but many times I’ll find grownups hovering over the plate and fishing a few out, too. If I [...]

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