You just might already have all the ingredients right in your pantry! This recipe was honestly born the Shabbos right after pesach when my pantry wasn’t well stocked. We’ve all been there. I found a package of mini hot dogs in my fridge and figured, “Let’s use this up.” I started just literally throwing things…
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What’s the Difference Between 1st and 2nd Cut Brisket?
Are the recipes for 1st and 2nd Cut Brisket interchangeable? Or are they completely different meats? We have a bunch of recipes that call for 2nd cut brisket, like this one (see the original version in Dinner Done), this one over here and this crockpot version for a set-it-and-forget it type of main dish. Oh, wait,…
Rorie’s Pulled Sticky Silan Brisket in Pan Juices
Forget those jarred sauces. Rorie’s Sticky Silan Brisket, from food you love that loves you back, is just the meat you want for Yom Tov. Before we talk about this recipe and why we chose to share this particular recipe from Rorie Weisberg’s new book with you, can we take a moment to say: Yay! It’s finally…
Go-To 3-Ingredient BBQ Marinades for Chicken and Steak
It’s so easy, it’s just about obvious. And yet, these simple marinades for grilled meats are always popular. Most Yomim Tovim, I cross one meal off my list of those I need to prepare by planning a simple grilled meal–and everyone loves it. I make this roasted vegetable salad (roasting the vegetables and preparing the…
Simple but Amazing: Slow Roasted Onion Chicken
Use the same recipe for any roast! This Onion Chicken (or Roast) is as simple and easy as can be. My kids call this “Bobby’s Chicken”–and there’s always a pan keeping warm in the oven on long summer Friday afternoons for Toameha. And even though it’s “Bobby’s Chicken” you’ll find some unrelated little kid’s in…
How to Make Oven “Smoked” Brisket for Pesach
It might sound basic, but this cooking method yields a meat that everyone loves. One of my personal favorite recipes from Dinner Done Cookbook is the Smoked BBQ Brisket on page 130. I even created a Crockpot BBQ Brisket version (a version with BBQ sauce) here on BCP. Like I wrote in Dinner Done, in the…
The Tried-and-True Beer-Braised BBQ Brisket
The best recipes are always the ones that came from a friend who got it from another friend. This brisket is one of those. When my friend E. told me how she makes her brisket, she couldn’t really tell me where it came from. It was one of those handwritten recipes in her notebook that…
Is a Brisket or a Chuck Roast Best for Pulled Beef?
We tend to default to the more expensive cut of meat, but is it necessary when it’s going to be shredded? In one of our recent chats, we were discussing which cuts of meat we use for pulled beef. We were wondering why we tend to use a second cut brisket, which is significantly more…
Meatballs, the Easy Way. The 9×13 BCP Way.
What if we could make a family favorite dinner even easier? Here at Between Carpools we get lots of emails. Some are seeking advice (we do our best, and at times, add those topics to future posts we want to explore), some are taking the time to thank us for a post that helped their…
How to Make Your Own Hard Salami
There’s only one ingredient. Well, maybe two: The salami and the wait. Close to Purim, a friend of ours was hosted in Brooklyn for a family simcha. She and her husband slept in the basement, full of hanging and drying salamis from exposed pipes. It was almost Purim, so thinking back, the hosts were geniuses…