Growing up in the cold climate of the Ural Mountains, I was not very familiar with eggplant. When I got down to the Caspian Sea for summer to the historic town of Derbent, eggplants were a staple of the diet for my family that lived there. However, being unfamiliar to me, they were not too…
Category: Recipes
Can we Eat this on Rosh HaShana?
They say life goes fast after you hit a certain age. Life surely flies for me for the last few years. Didn’t we just celebrate a new year? Yet, it is Elul – אֱלוּל again! We should be ready – both physically and spiritually for another Day of Judgement. For the last few years I’ve…
New Healthy Invention – Mushroom, Barley and Collard Greens Supper
It is pretty miserable outside these days here in New York. These are the days that your soul craves for warmth. Potatoes can’t be eaten every day even by those of us that came from the land of root vegetables, namely Russia, correct? Winter is always the time when people gain weight (or is it…
Making Teiglach with my Mom
This Sunday, my mother turned 90! NINETY! Can you imagine? It’s hard for me to imagine since my mom is still the strongest person I know. I am so grateful for her continuous presence in my life. We actually have become closer to each other during the last 10 years than ever before, and it…
In the Midst of Heat, should we Think about Stews and Soups?
As you, my readers, already know I am in love with cookbooks and recipes regardless of where they are coming from. I am also in love with history both general and food related. So, naturally, when I saw this article in The journal of Biblical archeology, I had to share it with you. It seems…
Kasha Varnishkes & Joan Nathan
I just had to share this! Of course, the moment I saw the title of this article ” The Enduring Delights of Kasha Varnishkes”, I just had to say something. I am so happy tablet started this series with Joan Nathan. I love watching the short videos even if sometimes my version of the Jewish…
More Bread Adventures
Recently, I had my first video experience. I am not a video person, and although I have taught some cooking, and I have taught many classes on Zoom, I have never done food preparation live. Now, of course, when everything and everyone is on Zoom, it was only a matter of time for me to…
Cabbage Schnitzel – Капустный шницель
I haven’t written about food here for a while, it seems. I will have to do better, I will really try. Here’s a quick run for our dinner tonight. Surprisingly, this dish that my mom made, and I expropriated, got instant popularity among my American born friends and acquaintances. We thought of it as of…
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…
Charoset – the Best of Pesach
I have almost stopped writing here. My personal stories of pain, thankfully, came to an end and my life became a 1000-fold better with one thing that, I believe, everyone needs in life – Love. Yes, Love with a capital L. This is such a small, easy word to pronounce, but underneath lies a myriad…
Cranberries – What’s Not to Love?
Although I don’t eat turkey, during this time of the year I always make lots of cranberry-apple sauce. This can be done for Sukkot, for Thanksgiving, or just because – the sauce is so good that can be eaten with any meat as a condiment, or as a not-too-sweet dessert, if you are like me….
Noshing Across the Nation 