Here’s how to elevate your hummus/chummus plate (or how to keep it simple!). When it comes to feeding a crowd on Yom Tov, chummus plates are a great item to serve as an appetizer, or on the table alongside the appetizer. Everyone loves to dip challah into chummus. Make one to serve in the middle…
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These Shabbos Potatoes Are My Family’s Favorite Friday Night Side Dish
Easy to make and to reheat, these potatoes might just be the ultimate Shabbos comfort food. Since the very beginning of my cooking days, these potatoes have had their spot on the Shabbos menu. I don’t make it every week, but when I do, everyone is happy. And I never make just what I need…
These Lotus Dessert Cannolis = 4 Ingredients = 1 Easy, Amazing Dessert.
Pick up some Lotus spread, Rice Krispies, cannolis, and ice cream and get this dessert into your freezer. The majority of the recipes we share on BCP are the types that you can clearly say, ‘This is a BCP-style recipe.” They are easy, with minimal prep, maximum flavor, and are super practical and family-friendly. So,…
This Rice with Mushrooms Takes Minutes To Throw Together
This rice side dish tastes gourmet, looks pretty on the plate and even reheats well! Yes, all that! Want umami? We have umami. This side dish is so flavorful and hearty, we sometimes forget it’s only a side and we have just that for dinner. It’s that good! Also, it looks exotic and hard to…
Ready for Baking? Make and Freeze This Apple Crumb Galette
The crumbs are the perfect addition to this apple version of our popular galette. One of the first recipes ever published here on BCP was this fruit galette. In the past I’ve only made this recipe using plums. I would begin making them midsummer and freeze a few raw to be baked during the fall….
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…
We Call This ‘The Snack Dessert,” and It’s Super Cool
It’s super easy to prepare, looks great, and everyone loves. First of all, when making this dessert, you need tall thin miniware (I’ve used taller and thinner than this at other times, and it looks even cooler when there’s those very distinctive layers. This was the best I could find this time). All the ingredients…
How To Use All The Falafel Balls in Your Freezer
Too many bags of frozen falafel balls? Change it up! Here in NJ, we’re still getting government subsidized meal boxes. And it seems that every week, there’s a bag of falafel balls in ours. When the collection started getting out of hand, I decided something had to happen. Problem is, while we love falafel, we…
Move Over Avocado Toast. Tomato and Ricotta Cheese Toast Is Perfect for Your Picnic
It’s super simple to prepare, tastes gourmet, and unlike avocado, you can take it along and it won’t go brown. The base of your toasts should be some good quality fresh bread (the parbaked French baguettes from the freezer section are also good). View the full summer worthy picnic in this post. Since the ingredients…
This Bagel Chip Caesar Salad Has Just the Perfect Twist
Just make a dressing and throw the components into your picnic bag, and you’re ready to go. There’s not that much that’s different between this Caesar salad, first featured in this Picnic post, and your standard one, but some small changes make it feel all the more special. First, start with high quality lettuce. Although…