Grilled Potato Salad with Black Beans and Goat Cheese
I am lucky. I grew up in a family where both my parents cooked. In fact, my dad’s borscht was deemed to be the best in the family, and that’s saying quite a lot. Food was always a way to show love and...
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Rosewater and Pistachio Cheesecake Bars
Rosewater had always been one of those ingredients that frightened me a litte. It was exotic and unfamiliar, but there was also a certain allure that kept me wondering what I might do with it. When I...
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Two Cheesy Summer Salads Straight from the Farmer’s Market
My husband and I often joke that he is not allowed to do the grocery shopping, and I am not allowed to do the Target runs. Somehow a shopping list that had toothpaste, toilet paper and dog treats...
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Moroccan Fish and Crispy Rice Cake with Saffron Crust
To me, nothing defines Moroccan cooking more than the classical preparation of fish. The vibrant red, yellow, and green colors, the spicy aroma, and the delicate textures all come together in this...
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How to Make Perfect Rugelach
I have never made rugelach. Well, actually that’s not entirely true. I made rugelach once recently, and they were a disaster. The dough wasn’t moist enough, I didn’t roll them properly and I ended up...
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Sticky Cinnamon Bun Rugelach Recipe
Sticky cinnamon bun, meet your new BFF, the rugelach. I think you two will get along very well. I know we’re just getting over fried food and latkes galore, but December really isn’t for cutting back!...
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Challah Baked Brie Recipe
I think you know by now that I will try to stuff challah with almost anything: meatballs, pesto, pastrami and even candy bars. So it just seemed silly that I had yet to try and stuff some challah with...
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Goat Cheese, Silan and Olive Galette Recipe
Cooking creatively to celebrate Tu Bishvat is a little like peeking into a mystery basket of unrelated elements on CHOPPED and wondering: now what? Except that the ingredients we celebrate on this...
View ArticleHow to Make Sweet Noodle Kugel
Sweet dairy noodle kugel is a quintessential Jewish-American comfort food, and many families often have their own beloved recipe. It is perhaps one of the simplest kinds of kugels to make, with egg...
View ArticleDid Esther and Ruth Break the Glass Ceiling? A Debate
Meesh: Back then, in biblical times, the ceiling was not glass, and I don’t think Esther or Ruth made any attempt to break it. Esther and Ruth symbolize the most disempowered of our society. In...
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Purim Recipe: Arab-Style Tortellini (Shishbarak)
On Purim it is traditional to eat food with fillings hidden inside to symbolize the hidden nature of the Purim miracle, like hamantaschen, kreplach and stuffed cabbage. And from this list of “stuffed”...
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Israeli-Inspired Mother’s Day Brunch
It is pretty customary for children to treat mom with a lovely brunch in a nice restaurant on Mother’s Day–no cooking or clean-up for mom, what could be better? But in the restaurant industry, Mother’s...
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What It Means to Graduate
Mazel Tov, Young Graduates! You’ve done it! Your hard work has paid off. We put hoop after hoop in front you, and you jumped through them like a champ. There were tedious nights, times when your energy...
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Herb Compound Butter Recipe for Salmon and Beyond
Is there anything better than butter? Yes, and it’s flavored butter, also known as compound butter. I really enjoy making flavored butter for special occasions like brunch or a dairy Shabbat dinner (or...
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How to Make Perfect Cheesecake 5 Ways
You know Shavuot is coming when you begin to see cheesecakes everywhere. Countless variations in the bakeries and supermarkets. Endless numbers of recipes in the media. Cheesecake is the iconic Shavuot...
View ArticleFinding the Calling of My Soul, A Conversion Story
The photo above features the author’s son, daughter-in-law and grandson. Sometimes your soul knows, before your mind, where it needs to go. I was born in Louisville, Kentucky. My father is Willie...
View ArticleLike God, I Am Prismatic
Although it might be awkward to articulate the breadth and depth of human qualities we aspire to, it is not difficult to speak our high dreams for our children – that they be loving and compassionate,...
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Sweet Ricotta & Strawberry Bourekas Recipe
I’m a cheese and dairy fanatic. So for obvious reasons my favorite holiday is Shavuot. This is when spring has sprung and my family makes a whole spread of cheese and dairy filled foods and desserts....
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31 Drool-Worthy Cheesecake Recipes for Shavuot
Shavuot is the time of year when Jews have the chance to get all crazy with their dairy consumption: blintzes, kugel and of course cheesecake. As we were taking a look around the interwebs, we found so...
View ArticleA Shout-Out to Shavuot
If you ask me, Shavuot doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Judaism has a lot of holidays, and it’s understandable that some get emphasized more than others, depending on where you are—in the U.S.,...
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