Perhaps your mother has been making them for you for years. But if you need to prepare them on your own, here’s a quick guide. Not all of the simanim need much preparation. These simanim are not listed in no-cook/cook order, not in order that they are eaten. Let’s start with the no-cook items: Tapuach B’Dvash. There’s…
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Basics: Mac and Cheese
it really never gets old. Ever. We are definitely a noodle family. While my boys have outgrown the “pasta and only pasta” stage, they still don’t mind a fresh bowl of something cheesy and hot. The girls, however, still celebrate when pasta is on the menu and greatly prefer it over anything else. There are…
How to Make Yussi Weisz’s Coleslaw
It’s worth making from scratch: real, fresh shredded cabbage is nothing like its bagged sibling. I used to buy my coleslaw, every week, at Yussi’s Deli on Second Street. It was my favorite coleslaw. Then, Yussi opened his popular Snaps restaurant (read more about Yussi and see another recipe over here) and the ownership of the…
The Amazing Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies
These just might be the best and the easiest cookies you’ll ever make. Recently, a friend dropped off a box of these chocolate chip cookies. They were big and gorgeous and…the size! How did she get these cookies to be so perfect? I knew these weren’t typical cookies. These were special. That evening, I had…
Basics: Make Your Own Amazing Hummus/Chummus
Hummus/Chummus can be the start of an amazing meal. And a great version is just a couple of minutes away… During photoshoots and meetings we discuss different things we’re cooking or doing and that usually becomes the content we write for BCP. If we need it now, it’s possible it will help someone else. During…
How to Make Arbes (Cooked Chickpeas)
They taste way better when homemade. I used to joke that, as a kid, I knew one of my siblings was having a baby any day now if, by Wednesday, I saw a bowl of chickpeas soaking in water on the kitchen counter. Many have the tradition to serve arbes and beer at a shalom…
Date Night: How to Make a Great Steak Dinner for Two
You are totally capable of transforming your dinner table into that of a five star restaurant. This has become one of my signature dishes from new cookbook, The Marblespoon Cookbook. It’s quite simple to make, and takes about an hour from start to finish. Steak Dinner for Two Save Print Ingredients extra-virgin olive oil…
Spread Some Homemade Nutella On Your Matzah
This Pesach, this chocolate hazelnut spread will be all you are going to want to eat. There’s something so delicious and addictive about this “Nutella,” you will have to ask someone to hide the jar for you. Use it as a spread over matzah, or warm it up a touch and drizzle it over some…
Basics: How We Make Our Chicken Soup
Our basic section wouldn’t be complete without the most basic Jewish food of all – some classic chicken soup. We all agreed that we needed to have a BCP Basics post about chicken soup. But we couldn’t all agree on the best recipe. Because everyone knows, chicken soup is personal. There’s no right way or…
Basics: How to Make a Classic Hamantaschen
Stuck indoors during this snowy Adar? Bake a batch of hamantaschen with the family. At one of our photo shoots, we were discussing the need to post a classic hamantasch recipe. None of us has one that we love, so we were tossing around ideas of whom to ask. Our bookkeeper Shana was at our…
