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Posts Tagged ‘Rosh HaShanah’

Fish Eyes

Posted in Everyday Cooking, soup, tagged , , , , , on November 6, 2009 | 14 Comments »

My son Eliezer was about nine years old and heavily into grossing his sisters out.
“I’ll eat anything,” he boasted. “Even fish eyes.”
Eeeww. When had I ever served him fish eyes? But it caught his imagination. He strutted around talking about fish eyes, knowing he was safe. Who would ever test him on it? His friends [...]

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Lamb with Chestnuts

Posted in Rosh HaShana, What's Cooking for Shabbos and Yom Tov, tagged , , , on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

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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Been Baking

Posted in Israeli Moments, tagged , on September 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I bet a lot of Israeli women are baking today. Mixing, kneading, stooping to slide trays into the oven, cramming the goods into the freezer. Are they all cheerful, energetic Jewish mamas, or are some of them  tired, like me? Damnably hot weather to be turning the oven on. And the flies at this time [...]

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Honey Cake and Slivovitz

Posted in Home Bakery, tagged , , , on September 21, 2008 | 12 Comments »

It’s a beat-up, musty old book whose pages are spotted with cooking splashes. Jewish Cookery is the title, printed square in the middle of the front cover in angular letters resembling old-fashioned Yiddish print. Inside the front cover my father scrawled his signature and the date: Caracas, 1954. There is no ISBN number, but an [...]

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