Can’t find matzoh anywhere? It has sometimes been my misfortune to live in places where you just can’t buy matzoh – or anyway, where you’d have to take long bus trips to other parts of town to buy matzoh. Fortunately, you can make your own matzoh at home, if you’re careful and quick. Matzoh in …
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Roasted chickpeas
How to roast chickpeas: At breakfast, put a cup of chickpeas to soak in a large bowl of water. An hour and a half before dinner, rinse the chickpeas and put them in a saucepan over high heat in plenty of fresh water. Bring to a boil and simmer for half an hour or until …
Potato-squash puffs
Delicious, nutitious party treats! I was running a free store, and somebody brought these and left them on the food table. I’d been working all day and missed lunch, and I was starving, and when I found these they were so good! Sadly, the person who brought them was long gone, and so I had …
Bread – no kneading
Greek bread On an archaeological dig in central Greece (the same one where our cook Vasiliki made us that wonderful string bean stew), we also ate a lot of the Greek bread baked by the local bakeries in our village. Well, not really our village – Proskyna was too small to have a bakery, but the …
Challah bread
Friday night bread Traditionally, Jewish women bake two loaves of challah (my grandmother pronounced it “holly”) bread on Fridays, and you eat it for a fancy Shabbat dinner on Friday evenings. I don’t usually have time to bake on Fridays when I’m working, but I do try to make challah at least for Rosh Hashonah, …
Bagels from scratch
Not by Bread Alone I grew up on bagels; in Ithaca, New York, bagels were like the default food. People had them for breakfast, lunch, and snack, and then had pizza bagels for dinner. No respectable bagelry would sell a bagel more than two hours old – after that, they gave them away free out …
Latkes with vegetables
Why use vegetables instead of potatoes? These have a lot more flavor than just potato latkes, and they’re less fattening too. My kids like vegetable latkes so much that I make them even when it’s not Hanukkah. I also often make them for company, when the company involves a lot of allergies and food restrictions, …
Twice baked potatoes
Cooking for Occupy Portland Last fall when I was cooking for Occupy Portland, we needed to make dinner for about a thousand people a night (no kidding!) with whatever jumble of ingredients people happened to have donated. One winner was these twice baked potatoes – they’re cheap, they’re easy to make, and they’re easy to …
Trout with spinach
How to eat whole trout Once on a group tour of Sicily, we were at a lovely taverna and each of us got a whole trout for lunch. At the other tables, people just tore into their trouts, mixing the bones with the flesh and ending up unable to eat any of it. Very sad. …
Tomato Tarte Tatin
Not Apple Tarte Tatin? A Tarte Tatin is usually made with apples, but this is a savory version, perfect for a summer dinner. Most of it can be made ahead, before your guests arrive, but a Tarte Tatin is baked upside-down, with the crust on top, and then you have to flip it in an …