You love doctoring up those frozen French fries. Here is another version you’ll love. Back in 2017 I shared a recipe on BCP that I’ve been making for years. The secret for the best Frozen French Fries. It wasn’t a surprise that the recipe became our number one recipe on the entire Between Carpools and, for the past…
side dishes
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…
This Easy Rice with Mushrooms Takes Minutes To Throw Together
This rice side dish tastes gourmet, is so easy to make, 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…
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….
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 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…
How Should You Season Cauliflower? With “Everything Spice”
No one will ever say that this cauliflower is missing flavor. After writing Dinner Done, we ended up with lots of recipes we created/wrote but didn’t put in the book. This cauliflower side dish was polished off whenever we made it, but we felt it overlapped with our Everything Bagel Salmon, so it didn’t make…
The 9×13 Life: How to Make Farfel in the Oven
Make this Shabbos staple in one pan with no pots or cleanup required! We’ve changed so much of how we cook over the last few years here on BCP. We started creating 9×13 dinners that are easy, quick and delicious…then it was no-mixer cakes…then we began baking dishes we usually prepare on stove top, saving…
How to Make Savory Deli Hamantaschen for Your Purim Seudah
Finger foods are always the way to go for the seudah. If you don’t love sweet hamantaschen, but love deli, this is the way to go to bring the hamantaschen to the table. Since I’m not a fan of sweet hamantaschen, I’ve always found it fun to create savory versions. I shared 4 ways to…
Just What Do You Do with a Bottle of Yoshida Sauce?
If you’re a Costco shopper, chances are you’ve put Yoshida sauce in your cart one time or another. So, now…what to do with it? So, there is this sauce so many of us buy from Costco. It’s a huge, huge bottle. Why do we buy it? Because we heard it’s great. But then it takes…
