Levana’s Whole Foods Cookbook
Ah, the joys of August. Whether it is from a farmer’s market, a roadside stand, your own backyard or even the produce aisle of your local supermarket, there is no doubt that now is the time to feast on...
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Easy Weeknight Dinners
With loads of camp laundry to wash and fold, and school prep on our minds, we are all busy with one thing or another. No one needs the added stress of planning tomorrow night’s dinner! Look below for...
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Shank Bone Filled With Dried Fruit And Rice (Serves 5) Ingredients: Lamb shoulder (ask the butcher to remove the bones and create a pocket for filling) 1 tbsp. olive oil 5 tbsp. heated honey 6 fresh...
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Fresh, Colorful & Tasty Sukkos Ideas
One year we went out for a meal and instead of bringing along the usual chocolates or wine, I offered the hostess an array of colorful salads. After seeing how muchthey were enjoyed, I thought it would...
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Blogger Spotlight: The Happy Healthy Hippie
I love meeting fellow food bloggers. Valerie White is the author of The Happy Healthy Hippie and just might convince me to try granola. We all know I have a sweet tooth but after all the carbs and...
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Dinner In Venice
Winter is almost here and nothing says comfort like a rustic Italian dinner. Pasta e Fagioli (Bean Soup) (serves 4-6) Ingredients 1 quart hot water 2 or 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil ½ onion,...
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Stuff In The Fridge
Among the many things we were tested with during Hurricane Sandy was the way in which we can preserve our food in the middle of a disaster. My family spreads out from Flatbush to Boro Park, Staten...
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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, but for me, it just doesn’t taste the same. And frankly, fried baby...
View ArticleCHIC Made Simple: Fashionably Fabulous Food Without The Fuss
Goodbye humdrum. Hello, gorgeous!! With the release of CHIC Made Simple, an all new cookbook written by food stylist, columnist and recipe developer Esther Deutsch, kosher food continues to blaze new...
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A Fruit Filled Holiday
Sweet and Sour Chicken By Ruby G. This is a simple recipe for chicken thighs or breasts. You need chopped onions, low fat French dressing, fresh apricots (or if they are not in season, apricot jam...
View ArticleRecipe: Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie
Cooking a dish that both meat eaters and vegetarians will compromise on can be difficult. I was once in a predicament where I hosted someone who neglected to mention that she was a celiac and a...
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Comic Recipe: ‘HamanTashen Filled with Walnuts’
(Images borrowed from the crate labels of American grown oranges) (Images borrowed from the crate labels of American grown oranges)
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Delicious? Easy? And Kosher L’Pesach?? Two Pesach Cookbooks Cure Your Cooking...
So there is good news and bad. Which one do you want to hear first? Me? I always want to hear the bad news first. I need to get it over with. So here goes. Purim 2013 is now something we can discuss in...
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Cooking For Pesach
The first thing we should before we begin preparing for Pesach is check out our regular food cabinets/pantries to see what we have that is marked Kosher for Pesach – closed cans, some drinks and...
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Refreshing and Healthy Pesach Meals
With our focus now turned to the upcoming Pesach holiday, I wanted to share with you some lighter and healthier meal ideas. We have some baked, not fried eggplant, low-carb “rice” created in a unique...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Have Margarine This Pesach, Use…
Mayonnaise. That’s right, you read it correctly. And I’m sure it’s not the first time you’ve read it, either. And the thought of it has probably made you go ‘”blech.” But this is me saying it, so let’s...
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Shavuos Recipes
No Bake Israeli Cheese Ball Pops Ingredients 2 cups crushed vanilla tea biscuits (approximately 1 ½ packages) 1 stick margarine. 1 container 5% Israeli white cheese 1 tbsp. vanilla sugar ½ cup sugar...
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Bo’ee Kallah
It’s all over. The orchestra is still, the lights are dimmed. Your simcha outfits hang in your closet, silent witnesses to a time you will treasure in your mind and heart forever. The wedding and sheva...
View ArticleDo The Dough!
Yeast dough is considered one of the most basic but complicated of the dough family. Just think of the first cakes you made – I’m almost sure they weren’t yeast cakes. But mine were! As a girl I really...
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