This tahini-chickpea dip is a great mashup of your favorite Shabbos staples. I love having a variety of dips on my Shabbos table. chummus, techina, my favorite tomato and eggplant carpaccio (will share a hack in a few weeks to make this easier to prepare!) are pretty much the basics every week. Since I like changing it up a bit,…
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Enjoy Your Coffee With Cholov Yisroel Milk Even While Traveling with This Hack
Even if you’re flying with just carry-on luggage, you can enjoy cholov Yisroel milk in flight and at your destination. Do you need actual milk in your coffee and are also makpid on cholov yisroel? With advance planning, you can travel with your milk and won’t need to substitute with any alternative milks. The issues…
Checking Lettuce: A Great Hack to Make It Easier
All you need is the right lighting. We get lots of emails… all day, everyday. We like getting your feedback on recipes or articles, we love getting your emails of support and appreciation (makes it all worth it and fuels us anew). Sometimes, not often, we get the best emails: the ones where you share…
How to Plate a Gorgeous Dessert Using Sorbet
We can’t wait to serve delicious sorbet spectacularly (but still easy!). Victoria: I’ve been buying, serving, and enjoying Cream Sorbet and Gelato for years–whenever I pick up some quarts for Shabbat from Cream in Lakewood, I feel like I have my own little gourmet dessert secret. So when Renee was hired to style photos for…
Make a Hot Pretzel Bar (But Make It Easy!)
Want to feed the kinderlach who show up at your door all Purim, something more than just candy? And make it fun? We have just the thing. Purim is that notorious day, where we are surrounded by food all day but eat nothing of substance. I’m not here to tell you that hot pretzels are…
Finding The Right Containers to Hold Gefilte Fish…What Joy!
I didn’t think I needed fridge containers either. Then, I saw these, and changed my mind. These containers are just the perfect size. For years, I have been struggling with the right container to store gefilte fish. I know, it sounds funny. It probably is kinda funny. And I probably shouldn’t have used the word “struggle”…
Pizza Dough Goes from Frozen to Ready to Roll in Two Minutes
Frozen pizza dough usually takes a couple of hours to thaw at room temperature. Or it takes two minutes in the microwave. There are some things in life that are so ‘duh’ that I wonder why it took me 17 years to figure out. But if I didn’t figure this out until now, then perhaps there’s…
Potatoes Take a Long Time to Cook. How Can You Cut the Time in Half?
Learn how to cut the time potatoes take to cook in half, because sometimes waiting isn’t an option. If you’re a Mom, you’ll know that sometimes you need dinner to be ready fast. Ok fine, most times. Dinner done, fast and tasty, is a daily requirement. Also, incidentally, the title of a popular cookbook we might…
How to Serve a Perfectly Cooked Steak on Shabbos
It makes sense that we always prepare slow-braised meats for Shabbat. But is it even possible to have a medium-rare steak? Actually, yes. I remember, years ago, when my children were very young and not yet meat eaters, I would prepare a steak for my husband for the main dish on Friday night. We definitely…
How to Keep Grated Potatoes from Turning Brown
Now you can grate potatoes in advance for kugel and yapchik and they’ll stay white! For the times that Pesach leads right into Shabbos, I needed to come up with a way to have my potatoes grated in advance for this Yapchik. Previously, if I left grated potatoes in the fridge for more than an…
