Kosher Cooking Carnival #46

Do you know the Kosher Cooking Carnival? If you don’t,  it’s time you did.
It’s a collection of links to blog entries discussing recipes, food traditions, stories, Jewish law, restaurant or cookbook reviews – anything related to kosher food. For example, this month mominisrael shows us a cooking ingredient spreadsheet; Pesky Settler presents a psychedelic tie-dyed [...]

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Flim-Flam Flan

The Big Move is behind me. With the High Holidays over and Sukkot  just around the corner, I’ve been thinking about meals and menus without much interruption. Plenty of time to think about all that because for the past several days I’ve been lying in bed, blowing my nose.
Oh, woe. If I’d only drunk my [...]

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Three Hassidim, A Bottle of Wine, And The Olive Crop

“Please, come in,” I said. Two Hassidim in long black coats and round, black felt hats walked in and sat down, looking shy. Behind them came Tuvya, a wine crony of mine from the grape purchase co-op, in a white shirt showing some purple splashes. He had a big, pleased grin on his face.
He said, [...]

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Trout Baked with Pickled Lemons

The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden is becoming my kitchen Bible for this holiday. In the post below, I show how I made lamb from it, and now I’ll show you the holiday fish.
It’s worth putting up a batch of pickled lemons – around now in September the lemons are great. Such a [...]

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Lamb with Chestnuts

When I saw fresh quarters of lamb of in the supermarket, I decided that for Rosh HaShanah, it was worth the price.  The butcher sliced off the chops and cut the shoulder and breast into thin pieces about 3 inches across. Not the way I would have liked it cut, but try to argue with [...]

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What Is It About Sweet and Sour Meatballs?

Something about holidays unleashes a wild craving for sweet and sour meatballs in Jews. That is, I think so. Because come Rosh HaShana or Passover, every caterer advertises them in their newspaper ads and mailbox flyers. Sweet and sour meatballs, just like Bubeh made them! I never see them advertised at other times of the [...]

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Back Online

Apologies for delayed answers to readers who have posted questions and comments while I was moving. My excuse is that the computer has been hidden behind a pyramid of boxes for almost a week.
It’s been the most challenging move ever. A massive amount of books and tchatchkes hade accumulated over the years and many had [...]

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