Photo Contest: YOUR BEST CHALLAH!

Everyone loves challah…and these days, everyone loves photos of beautiful, homemade food – especially challah! So, this week and next ...

Pumpkin Pizza

I LOVE pumpkins – and really who doesn’t!? Pumpkin pie, pumpkin spiced lattes, all the beautiful and flavorful pumpkins of ...

The Best Matzah Balls–From Budapest!

In a wonderful article in the New York Times this weekend, David Sax discusses the sanctity of matzah balls, but ...

Shabbat Recipe Roundup: A Lazy Week Edition

This week we are gonna try something different for our Shabbat recipe round-up: I’m gonna share with you MY Shabbat ...

Detox Very Berry Smoothie

The holidays are over, and our stomachs can finally take a break from all the eating, and sitting, and eating. ...

Roasted Beet and Asian Pear Salad

Asian pear, English cucumber – this salad is like the U.N. of Autumn appetizers. I love creating new combos of ...

‘Tis the Season…of Pumpkin!

The only thing I love cooking with more than pumpkin is mascarpone, so when a reader asked last week to ...

Cookbook Review: One Egg is a Fortune

As I have written about before, I love good cookbooks (not all cookbooks), so when a cookbook comes across my ...

Sweet ‘n Spicy Sweet Potato Soup

This is one of my favorite recipes to make and to share with others. Every time I make this soup ...

Break-the-Fast Menu

What’s the best part of fasting on Yom Kippur? Well, BREAK-ing the fast of course! Most American Ashkenazi Jews I ...

Custom Cream Cheese

Everyone loves a good bagel spread for most occasions, but especially to break the fast at the end of Yom Kippur.

Brisket Contest Winner!

After reviewing dozens of brisket recipes, I still can’t believe how many variations of the same dish will grace Jewish ...