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Latke Experimenting--Baked Potato-Mushroom Latkes

I love latkes. Fried crisps of potato and onion, eaten with sour cream and applesauce. What's not to love? Oh yeah, it's about as healthy as eating a half cup of oil and grease-soaked high-glycemic empty calories. So I...

Posted by Amy on December 13, 2009 11:52 AM

Pesach Cook-Along, 2009 Part 2

The rest of Wednesday and Thursday was spent in a flurry of cooking, yet more shopping, hunting for the mysteriously disappeared Hagaddahs (which are somewhere in limbo between S&K's house and mine. My theory is that they were in a...

Posted by Amy on April 11, 2009 10:59 AM

Pesach Cook-Along, 2009 Part 1

6:00 am: Put potatoes in the oven, and started sauteeing leeks, carrots, and peppers for Maakud or Mahookha, a Sephardic dish similar to an Ashkenazi potato kugel, but with more vegetables and herbs and somewhat lighter. 6:30 Made Sephardic charoset...

Posted by Amy on April 8, 2009 11:49 AM

Charoset

As I began my passover planning this year, I thought it would be fun to add to the charoset selection I offer on the table. Charoset is the reddish-brown mixture that is part of the Seder plate of symbolic foods...

Posted by Amy on April 5, 2009 6:17 AM

Pesach Madness 2009

Time to start planning for Passover. We're going to a friend's home for the first seder on Wednesday, and are hosting the second seder for (Yikes!) 22 on Thursday night. I'm cleaning out the fridge and kitchen today, starting...

Posted by Amy on April 4, 2009 11:17 AM

Hamentashen

I made a batch of hamentashen yesterday, the triangle-shaped cookies eaten at Purim. I only made two kinds this year, since I didn't like the cherry filling I bought. I made some with a Nutella filling; and some with...

Posted by Amy on March 8, 2009 4:49 PM

Sunday Slow Scoopers--Crepes for Blintzes

I knew right away what I would use this week's selection to wrap. My mother's mother, my Nana, made the world's best blintzes. Of course, didn't everyone's Jewish grandmother? She could crank out enough for an army, with her...

Posted by Amy on October 5, 2008 1:49 PM

Rosh Hashanah Planning

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, begins at sundown next Monday. Monday night will just be seven of us, and I'll make a whole fish stuffed with almonds and dates. I usually host a big dinner on the second night,...

Posted by Amy on September 20, 2008 9:21 AM

Pesach Cook-Along

I staggered home from work yesterday afternoon and began to Kosher my kitchen for Passover. Cleaned out the fridge, and cleaned all chametz (leavened food) out of the kitchen pantry (pasta, breads, crackers, cereals, etc). Later that evening I...

Posted by Amy on April 18, 2008 5:44 AM