From Scratch

It’s effortless, uses few ingredients and has a delicious twist: it creates its own sauce. No liquid is used. This recipe for brisket as pot roast is not your grandmother’s brisket. Not Bubbe’s at Passover nor Grammie’s on a cold day.
This is unlike any other recipe I’ve seen for braised brisket. Along with not needing liquid, […]

As Los Angeles Chef Suzanne Tracht says, Passover is all about the matzoh balls. They’re easy to make — and I will sidestep the “sinkers or floaters” debate — and she shows us how in this short video from Epicurious.
What startled me here was her mention of matzoh ball mix to make them, when starting […]

If illustrator Norman Rockwell were still alive, I wonder if he’d do a vegetarian version of his iconic Freedom From Want? The painting, from his Four Freedoms, is seared onto our national consciousness as an idealized family Thanksgiving but for millions, a turkey on the table is neither ideal nor desirable.  
These days there are plenty of choices for […]

The Diner’s Journal blog of the The New York Times invited readers to submit questions for Joan Nathan, the noted cookbook author and frequent Times contributor, about cooking and baking for Rosh Hashana. Nathan was quite generous with her expertise, recipes and ideas, including several for special needs such as gluten-free.
Recipes range from fruited briskets and chicken to a […]

If I were a real New Englander – and many who are say I never will be and they’re probably right — I’d be making a pot of baked beans this weekend. No, I’m proof that you can take the woman out of New York, but you can’t take New York out of the woman. So […]

Note: The url in the photo is my old url. I did not swipe the photo. I plastered the url on it because someone did steal it. Sad, really, when you consider it’s not such a good photo. Oh, well..on with the recipe! They taste better than I can make them look in a picture.
Let’s […]

3/29 - Bedford has it! - Stop and Shop has Passover Coke, Diet Coke and Sprite. 
3/28 update - I’ve gotten several emails asking where to find this in NH. I don’t drink soda, but I was under the impression the Boston area would be the closest. I’m trying to find out. Coke’s website is useless for this type […]