Fesenjaan Chicken (chicken in pomegranate walnut sauce) The recipe calls for pomegranate syrup and water, but we used pomegranate juice and water instead. (2/3 syrup to 2 cups water, vs 2 cups pomegranate juice to 1 cup water) Fry 2 onions until translucent Three cloves of minced garlic Cinnamon and nutmeg Mixed in with onions…
Month: March 2016
Smore cookies
I am pretty sure this is the smore cookie recipe I made several years ago on a fast day. S’more Cookie Bars. Except I vaguely remember it being a pie. Anyway. Sadly, Graham crackers don’t seem to exist around here. (also unforgivably missing: triscuits and tam-tams) so if I made this recipe here, I’d either…
Gingerbread cookies
Gingerbread cookies are pretty unique in flavor, as cookies go. They really do taste gingery and spicy, it’s sort of an invigorating flavor. Also, they are delicious, and also, they are very amenable to being shaped into things. For example, when we first made these we shaped them into mishkan themed objects – menorah, shulchan,…
“patchke”
It’s interesting how different people have wildly different definitions of what foods are a patchke* to make. My aunt, when discussing this topic, always cites her mother in law, who thinks schnitzel is a patchke to make, but has no problem rolling multiple layers of dough to make rugelach. I, like my aunt, consider schnitzel…
Teas I like (that you should try)
For years, what I knew about my tea preferences was that I 1. Liked the celestial seasonings line of “zinger” teas. E.g lemon zinger, red zinger, wildberry zinger 2. Could not tolerate any teas with raspberry (read “could not tolerate” as “they made me nauseous, and even when sick with no other options I will…
Shabbos day stew
Well, I’m on a roll here (and procrastinating cleaning up the table) so I guess I’ll just quickly drop the recipe for the Shabbos day stew we make. I don’t like cholent and when I’m 50% of the people eating my preference gets to actually be taken into account. So out first Shabbos that we…
Broccoli kugel
I love broccoli kugel. We’re having guests over this week, for the first time real proper guests, (a young couple). Actually, we’re switching off – going to them Friday night, having them over Shabbos lunch. Our Shabbos menu is pretty thoroughly worked out, and it works, for the two of us. Shabbos might we have…
Banana cake
Alright, let’s be honest here. People make banana cake because they forgot about the bananas until after they were too mushy to be pleasant eating. And that’s alright, really. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s the same reason we make shakshuka when our tomatoes are starting to be off, or carrot cake when we just…
How to eat an artichoke
Answer: with gusto Aftermath: Yum
Artichokes
Artichokes were something I had as a child. Then, several years passed in which I did not have any artichokes. And during that time, I started to wonder if they were really as good as I remembered. I had loved artichokes. I remember jealously craving every single bite. But did they stand up to the…
Not really a recipe blog 