Tales of An Overtime Cook: Miriam Pascal
Welcome to Food Talk, a new feature that will highlight food bloggers, those enterprising souls who always seem to come up with something new, creative and most importantly, delicious. If you are anything like me, many of the recipes you make are the ones that magically show up in your inbox one morning and if you get lucky, these new dishes fast become family favorites.
Baked Apples with Muscat-Fig Filling
Although baked apples are perhaps considered a nursery food, by combining them with dessert wine, figs and roasted hazelnuts I have transformed them into a more adult pudding.
THE LATEST IN KOSHER FOOD: It's A Wrap!
Does this question sound familiar ? "Mom, what's for dinner?" Are you always looking for new and exciting meals to please yourself and your family? If the answer to these questions is yes, then we have the answer.
Pastrami Eggrolls With Apricot Dipping Sauce
These taste the best served on Friday night paired with a glass of Tulip Cabernet Sauvignon.
Pssst… Wanna Hear a Secret?
With so many great recipes paired and stunning pictures you may just find yourself tempted to lick the pages of ESSR.
Shabbos Bowls
Shabbos Bowls just might change the way you prepare for Shabbos.
All You ‘Knead’ To Know About Challah Dough
For me, there's nothing like making challahs for Shabbos. But I can't say it's always been the height of my week. There was a time when baking fluffy, light-as-a-feather challahs was a total mystery to me.
The Latest In Kosher Food: Snacking Perfection
Crispy snacks, chewy nougat, and an assortment of cookies that will delight your taste buds. If we were giving awards for the best snacks, these three companies would each take home first prize.
A Cut Above
With a menu as enticing as Reserve Cut's we left the difficult dilemma of what to eat to our personable and efficient waiter, Csaba.
Latest In Kosher Food
* First produced in Sarasota Springs in the 1850s, the potato chip has become as American as baseball and apple pie.
Quick & Kosher with Jamie Geller
Chanukah is such an exciting chag to look forward to. Not just because of the presents and the menorah, the lights and the chocolates - and the fact that I feel like it's a really fun kids' holiday - but it's so exciting to actually be able to serve freshly baked food.
New York Hospitals Cope With Growing Demand For Kosher Food
Hospitals in New York City, as well as hospitals in other major markets, are dealing with an increased demand for kosher food by patients, their families, visitors and staff.
Chanukah
Cooking according to Chanukah tradition doesn’t have to be boring! Though it’s unlikely that any Maccabee ever saw a potato, latkes are traditionally made with potatoes and that particular “traditional” dish is based on a South American tuber that didn’t cross the Atlantic until the sixteenth century.
Kosher Food And Wine Experience
Kosher wines have improved greatly in the last 20 years. Much of the credit can be given to the Golan Heights winery in Israel, which ignited the quality wine revolution when they released their first wines in 1983. Stateside, however, it has been the Herzog family and their Royal Wine Corporation that has introduced U.S.-based kosher consumers to premium wines.
Hearty Vegetable Beef Barley Soup
1 (3 pound) beef brisket 2nd cut
1/2 cup barley
1 bay leaf
2 tablespoons oil
3 carrots, chopped
3 stalks celery, chopped
1 onion, chopped
The Chabad Cookbook – The Most Prized in My Collection
I collect cookbooks the way other people collect coins, shot glasses, or miniature teaspoons.
New Kosher Wines For Passover
Passover is to the kosher food market what Christmas is to the rest of retail - it's make-or-break time, and the season to roll out new and exciting products.
STAR-K Launches Institute Of Halacha
The Mishna teaches us, "Appoint for yourself a rav" - a Torah guide, from whom you can acquire clarity through wisdom.
One – Skillet Suppers
The all-purpose stovetop to oven skillet is a kitchen essential. Mine works overtime and never lets me down. My skillet and a pair of tongs turn out delicious dinners for my family. Here are three special skillet suppers:
New Specialty Cookbooks Go For The Gold
There is nothing like the feel of those crisp new pages in your hands while taking in gorgeous, glossy pictures that you know took hours to get just right.
Roasted Red Pepper and Carrot Soup
Soup is one of the best starters for a Seder meal because it is so easy and quick to serve, especially if you have a large crowd at the table. This recipe is a delicious, vibrant and tasty soup, which can be made in advance and uses readily available low-fat Pesach ingredients. Cooked with garlic and basil, it is full of the flavor of the Mediterranean and provides a delightful change from regular carrot soup.
Something Sweet: Simply Spectacular
A quick look at margarine-less chocolate chip cookies offers a good look at what Pascal and Overtime Cook are all about.
The Cure Is In The Pot
Levana Kirschenbaum, restaurateur, master chef, cooking teacher and author, has just published the ultimate cookbook, The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen: Glorious Meals Pure and Simple. This is her magnum opus, a book that takes kosher cooking to a whole new level; with everything we ever needed to know about preparing healthy cuisine from soup to nuts.
Fresh, Fast & Low Fat Dinner Recipes!
It's official. My "just had a baby" card has expired. Now that my son is 15 months old, I can no longer pull that out as an excuse for why I have not yet lost the weight.
Made At Home In Boro Park
Whether you are a repeat customer or a first time visitor, from the moment you enter Orchidea you are treated like family. Only better.
Adding Healthy Fats In Unexpected Ways
Other people budget for meat or for their favorite bottle of wine, or for a quick vacation. I budget for avocados.
Dinner At Le Marais Caps OK Labs? International Mashgichim Conference
When a convention of kosher supervisors steps out to dine, you can be sure the restaurant of choice will meet their highest standards of kashrut as well as cuisine.
Le Marais, a French steakhouse that has been under the supervision of OK Laboratories since its opening in 1995, provided the setting for dinner and lively conversation following the OK?s 2nd Annual International Mashgichim Conference in November.
Le Marais, a French steakhouse that has been under the supervision of OK Laboratories since its opening in 1995, provided the setting for dinner and lively conversation following the OK?s 2nd Annual International Mashgichim Conference in November.
Turkey Time
It is that time of year again when you can find in your supermarkets a large selection of fresh and frozen turkeys.
Potato Latkes: The Recipe
Let's get this out of the way up front; I'm a shredded potato latke man. Ground up or processed potatoes have their loyal following,...
