This side dish can be prepared in advance and frozen, and nobody will know. It’s delicious Japanese noodles that taste just as good fresh and they do when they’re rewarmed. Sometimes you just want to cook up one big recipe (maybe even double it), freeze it, and know that it’s done. We do that often with…
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What Kind of Apples Should I Use?
Some are good for baking, and some for straight up eating. But there are so many varieties. How do I know what’s best? There are thousands of varieties of apples. Apple varieties span across countries from around the world. There are so many different types of apples that it can be hard to keep track…
Bake Your Gefilte Fish
Forget the pot. Forget the onion. Forget the carrot. It’s 2022. Almost ‘23. We will never stop eating gefilte fish (serving it, at least. Debatable on the eating part), but, we will figure out how to simplify the cooking. Know that sticky smelly pot that you really don’t enjoy washing out? It’s a distant memory…
The Tahini-Chickpea Dip
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,…
How to Crisp Up That Baguette or Sourdough Bread
Nothing beats a fresh loaf. But when you have one left over, you can easily make it *almost* fresh again. Do you sometimes have leftover loaves that don’t seem quite as exciting the next day? Or do you like to shop/bake ahead of time and by the time you want to serve the bread, it’s…
The Best Classic Rugelach: Cocoa or Vanilla Flavors
You always wanted to have a go-to rugelach recipe. Whether you love the chocolate or vanilla versions, your rugelach will now finally be coming out of your own oven. (Perfect for break-the-fast!) As our kids grow up, they’ve become unofficial ambassadors for BCP. They help us out with posts like What Does My Daughter Need…
Rainbow Quinoa Salad
This is my go to salad to send over to anyone hosting – as it’s so pretty and can easily be prepared in advance. Full of bright and nourishing veggies, this salad is bursting with a rainbow of colors – it makes the perfect edible centerpiece for Shalosh Seudos! I love that it can be…
Another Mayonnaise-Free Dip: Super Easy Olive Tapenade
It doesn’t get easier than this olive spread that goes with any bread from challah to sourdough. If your family is like mine, you want a variety of dips that are not mayo-based. This olive tapenade has just four ingredients and none of them is mayonnaise! The most important thing when making this tapenade is…
Potato Kugel in the Betty Crocker
Get potato kugel really quickly (and really crispy) in your Betty Crocker. We’ve been bitten by the Betty Crocker pizza maker bug and love sharing our Betty Crocker “recipes” (recipes in quotes because you don’t really need a recipe for most of the Betty Crocker cooking. Let’s start with the basics. The Betty Crocker pizza maker (or just…
Tuna Ceviche: The Perfect Summer Fish Course. We Never Tire Of It.
Whether you are serving it for Shabbos lunch or Shalosh Seudos, I can guarantee you will not have a drop left. Summer is here and I am not in the mood for cooked fish. Unless it’s steaming hot, just-came-out-of-the oven, type of fish. So, Friday night is easy. I usually serve this Moroccan Turbot, and we never…
