When you cook for Pesach, you start with the desserts, then move onto the dips. And this eggplant dip from My Pesach Kitchen should top the list. As a young girl, I never touched dips. My father would come home every week with containers and containers. I didn’t look at them. My mother made this…
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The No-Cook Falafel Solution: Make a Falafel Smash Sandwich
In the mood of falafel but don’t want to actually cook? This healthy sandwich is the solution. No forming balls, no frying. Just flavor. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and you have lunch. Once mixture is coarsely mashed, mix in cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions This mixture is also a great “mock tuna” –…
Warm Mushrooms with Cheese Salad
If I knew this restaurant salad was so easy to recreate, I wouldn’t have waited so long to enjoy it again! Years ago, I ordered a salad at one Miami restaurant. This is what I remember: it had these hot, oozing cheese-stuffed mushrooms that were so good; every bite was delicious. But there were 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…
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…
Shalosh Seudos or Poolside Lunch? The Perfect Tuna Salad for Any Summer Meal
Even if you’re not a tuna fan, you’ll love this gorgeous salad. And if you do like tuna, then this will be your favorite way to enjoy it. I originally called this recipe “Lunch for Mom by the Pool,” because it happens to be that kind of healthy and delicious tuna dish that you’d want…
Grilled Onions are a Must-Add to Your BBQ
Are you grilling today? Add onions and eggplants to the grill first. Once you master grilling hot dogs, chicken and burgers, you are ready to up your BBQ game. All you need to know are a couple of tricks and hacks to go from simply grilling the basics to being able to put out a…
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…
I Make This Za’atar Roasted Cauliflower Salad Again and Again
It’s a salad or a side dish. Bottom line, it’s beautiful and will be finished down to the last floret. Bring this Za’atar Cauliflower Salad to your table this Yom Tov. Each week, I feature one recipe in Ami Magazine’s Whisk, but once in a while, a new recipe comes along that really becomes part…
