Serving a crowd buffet-style? This pepper steak dish is intended to be prepped ahead and rewarmed…perfect for your seudah menu. People often ask where recipes come from, and honestly, every recipe has a different story. The day I received this recipe, Victoria and I had gone to interview Margie (then Schrek, now Gross), who was…
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4 Ways to Make Hamantaschen (and None Involve Making or Rolling Dough)
Not up to rolling out a dough and baking hamantaschen? Get in the Purim spirit with these four easy and tasty ways to enjoy the three-cornered pastry. Hamantaschen are meant to be symbolic; no one said they need to involve a from-scratch cookie dough, a rolling pin, and a mess in the kitchen. Here are…
Two-Ingredient Side Dishes: Garlicky Roasted Potatoes
These Garlicky Roasted Potatoes are one of the side dishes you’ll make the most often in the least amount of time. If you’ve seen this post on Sweet Potatoes and this one on Green Beans, you know how easy this one is going to be as well. These garlicky roasted potatoes are my go-to Friday…
Busy Life? Bake Some Bread.
Five minutes the night before, and I have a fresh hot meal for my family in the morning. Fresh bread is my solution to a busy life. If we were to bump into each other and begin a conversation, chances are, somewhere in the middle of our discussion on juggling work and family (because isn’t…
How To Cook an Awesome Steak in Not Such Awesome Weather
8 quick steps to a perfectly seasoned, perfectly done steak…every time. When I was 17 and super eager to drive, I offered to do the food shopping. My father heard that I had volunteered for the job and told me, “You can’t go. You don’t know how to pick out a good piece of steak.”…
Why Make Your Own Baby Food? A How-To Guide
I thought I’d be the last person on earth to make baby food from scratch. But now I’m sold. When my second daughter reached six months of age, I was determined to make my own baby food. I had never done this before, never even considered it for my boys or my first daughter. The…
Two-Ingredient Side Dishes: Butternut Squash with Techina and Za’atar
This butternut squash is one of the side dishes you’ll make the most often in the least amount of time. You already know the gig. You’ve made these Sweet Potatoes, these Green Beans, and even these super easy Potatoes. Now for something a little more exotic, but just as easy, try this butternut squash: Butternut…
How to Cook a Complete Shabbos Meal In The Oven
You can make your complete Shabbos meal in the oven. At first, I thought I’d write this to show you all how I bake my gefilte fish and make farfel in the oven. “But why just write about gefilte fish and farfel,” I thought. Why not try to make my whole Shabbos meal in the…
Irresistible Toffee. Prepare It Now & Cross It Off Your Mishloach Manos To Do List
One more thing: you will want to hide this toffee deep inside your freezer. Did you know that Purim comes out on Sunday this year? Yup. Read on. Mishloach Manos doesn’t need to be a last-minute-stay-up-all-night ordeal, not with this freezable toffee. Who knew. This toffee lives up to its name. It’s not something you…
The Zero Calorie (Ok, Almost) Minestrone Soup
Hot minestrone soup that’s filling, nutritious, and hits the spot…without many calories at all Want to enjoy a hearty, filling no-guilt side? This all-veggie minestrone-style soup hits the spot. I like to save the chopping work and use a vegetable chopper to chop up the vegetables (then they’re nice and even too). Add shredded cooked…
