To Pickle or Not to Pickle?

I used to think that pickling was very hard. I remember my mother making jars and jars of pickled cucumbers, cabbage, jams, or rather варенье, which is much closer to real fruit than we see here in the US. It was hard, indeed, I think as it involved hot-closing sterilized jars so that that could…

Hatzil haBait – Our House Eggplant – חציל הבּית

It is amazing that one works way more than usual reduced to part-time work. Is it only me, or the whole computerized world turned this way? In any case, I cannot complaint given that many people  completely lost their jobs and, unfortunately, countless others – their lives. I am one of the lucky ones, and…