Recipes
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Two-Ingredient Side Dishes: Maple Sweet Potatoes
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These are the side dishes you’ll make the most often in the least amount of time. If you’ve seen my Yom Tov menu, you’ve already figured out that I’m a lazy cook. I like easy, quick recipes that are delicious, satisfying, and super simple to prepare. There have to be many more out there like…
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Time for Flavor! This Moroccan Fish Dish is a Hit

This Moroccan Fish is a weekly dinner staple at my house. If you like flavor and a bit of heat, it might become one of yours too. UPDATE: We’ve recently been making this with salmon and sometimes adding chickpeas too. Chili peppers scare you? Try replacing with milder jalapeños. My husband loves Moroccan food and…
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Cooking in a Hotel Room? 9 Ways to Use Your Sandwich Maker

If you’re spending winter break in a hotel, you can prepare way more than grilled cheese with this inexpensive appliance. On vacation? Even if we’re in a city where there may be kosher food, I find in order to have a successful day when (AKA no fighting!), we need to start our days with a…
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The Secret of the Best Frozen French Fries

You can be a gourmet cook…and still proudly serve the best frozen fries. All you need is a little seasoning. Some people would start an article like this, “Ok, I admit, I serve frozen French fries [shame face]…blah blah blah….” I have nothing to be ashamed of. I proudly serve frozen French fries. All the…
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Shake n’ Bake Crispy Chicken Drumsticks

It’s only three minutes until these crispy chicken drumsticks are in the oven (and nothing to clean up!) This crispy chicken recipe came together during the heat of July when barbecuing is the rule. The grill was already up and running and I needed a quick solution. I was in the mood for something new…something…
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Chicken Paella: The One Dish Dinner (Most of) Your Family Will Love

Chicken, rice, and vegetables, cooked in one pot. It’s time for us tot try Spain’s favorite dish. While traveling through Barcelona, Spain, almost every dish we ate was served paella-style. We ate chicken paella, salmon paella, and lamb paella. On the flight home, I opened the flight magazine, and there was a recipe for chicken…
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The 4 Ways I Use My Mini Crock-Pot

Attached to your full-sized slow cooker? The mini version offers lots of cooking conveniences too. Some people love their Crock-Pot. They put up dinner in the morning (or even the night before and keep it in the refrigerator) and dinner is ready in the afternoon. I’ve tried to become one of those types of people.…
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The Quickest Must-Have Addition to Your Melave Malkah (Yes, It’s Rotev Pizza!)

Rotev pizza is the Israeli dipping sauce for pizza. It’s the single quickest upgrade you can bring to your melave malkah dinner! Americans may have perfected the perfect pizza slice but Israelis have completed pizza. Rotev Pizza – Israeli dipping sauce is like the best ketchup in the world for pizza. Whip up a quick batch…
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Serve Dessert in a Ball

These easy desserts are easy to make ahead (they’re easy period) and look absolutely breathtaking. People often call me randomly for help with recipe ideas. And I love to help…whether it’s planning a menu (see all these menu ideas here and here!), sharing a new meat recipe, or coming up with an idea for a…
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Entree’s BBQ Braised Beef

A new Secret Restaurant Recipe! BBQ Braised Beef When Victoria and I were writing Secret Restaurant Recipes and Everyday Secret Restaurant recipes, our favorite part was learning techniques from chefs all over the world and getting the chance to recreate some of our favorites at home. It’s always exciting when we relive the years of…
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