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…
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How to Make Cold Rice Taste Like Fresh
There’s nothing like a fresh pot of rice. But leftover rice? Nah. Give your rice new life with this hack. You made too much rice. Now what? What do you do with leftover, cold day-old rice? You can easily warm it up with some teriyaki sauce (for those who are crazy about everything teriyaki) or…
Who Needs Fries When There’s Fried Cauliflower (Even Better!)
Who knew cauliflower could be so, so good? While walking down Shuk Machene Yehudah with my children, nieces, and nephews, we heard someone shout, “Gush Katif Cauliflower. Try it!” I stopped in my tracks. Technically, after the disengagement, all the farms relocated and are not in Gush Katif anymore (Gush Katif produce were bug-free greenhouse…
How to Make Orchidea’s Creamy Farfalle Pesto Pasta
This is a real treat. Fresh basil. Real cream. And Chanukah is the perfect occasion. We’re all about shortcuts and being practical. But if you want to bring that authentic dairy restaurant dish home for Chanukah, this is the one. Fresh pesto and cream are definitely the ingredients you want to call for in a…
Hot Roasted Beets & Goat Cheese
Hot Beets and Goat Cheese takes a few minutes to make. It’s that dish that you can make when there’s really no time to make anything. One motzei Shabbat last year, my extended family had a melavah malkah get together. I don’t remember the occasion, perhaps it was someone’s birthday. Everyone had to bring one…
I Couldn’t Believe How Easy It Was to Make This Amazing Mushroom Salad
Chop and toss. That’s about it! Then, you’re ready to serve this gourmet salad that’s refreshingly different. I have one cousin in Israel that always has gourmet stuff on her table. Well, she’s a professional baker so we’d expect as much. I never really aspired to make anything that she makes because they all look…
Upgraded Roasted Vegetable Rice
Jazz up your side dish this Yom Tov with Roasted Veggie Rice. Side dishes. It’s the one dish that comes as an afterthought for most. And while you can totally serve plain rice, there is always something about serving things a bit upgraded for Yom Tov. This one even reheats nicely! And you can even…
These Roasted Veggies Are So Perfect, You’ll Forget About the Main
Everyone loves roasted veggies. Learn how to do it properly, and you will taste the difference. Barbecue season is upon us and there is no better summery side than a well-seasoned veggie. Rivky taught us that every vegetable is to be dealt with differently. You cannot expect to give peppers the same treatment as Portobello…
Have a Hot Sauce Fan at Home? Make Hot & Spicy Onion Rings
It’s two ingredients; simple as that! I have some kids who are completely obsessed with hot sauce, hot popper chicken, hot sauce potato chips…add hot sauce to any dish and they eat it. Since they love it so much, I came up with this quick 2 ingredient recipe for them that they polish off in…
Cauliflower Popcorn
Susie Fishbein shares the most popular, iconic side dish of all time. Want to know the Fishbein favorites? Susie Fishbein listed the yemenite soup and wonton chicken as some of her families favorites. But then we asked–what is perhaps the all-time popular recipe she has ever published (when it’s competiting with 2600 recipes, that’s saying…
