Comments on: Reader Interview: Fern Richardson

By: Late Weekly Review « Ilana-Davita

Late Weekly Review « Ilana-Davita — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:21:58 +0000

[...] in Israel interviews Fern Richardson for Cooking [...]

By: Hannah

Hannah — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:32:13 +0000

Aviva, since this isn’t a blog about Judaism I prefer to refer you (and any curious readers) to a post on my other blog where this was discussed at length, in the comments: http://www.amotherinisrael.com/2008/11/23/the-day-is-short-and-the-work-is-great-efficient-shabbat-preparations/

By: Aviva_Hadas

Aviva_Hadas — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:27:36 +0000

Can you please explain the issue with pre-cutting onions and Keeping kosher.

While I only have a meat set & a dairy set of knives (no parve set) I would not consider cutting for meat & dairy meals. Meanwhile, I would not have had a second thought about cutting onions for several meat meals (including those that are only meat because they are prepared in meat pots & served on meat dishes.)

By: Hannah

Hannah — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:48:13 +0000

Fern, long story, but there is an issue pre-cutting onions and keeping kosher. So I sometimes do it with other vegetables.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:48:01 +0000

Fern, I don’t do it with onions because it’s not strictly kosher–long story! But I do with celery, for example.

By: Anarchy in the Garden

Anarchy in the Garden — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:10:40 +0000

Great article! Is Thursday’s curried lentil soup the recipe you gave me? Loved reading about your family dinners.

By: Fern

Fern — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:49:28 +0000

Ariela–I had asked Hannah directly about what she does about onions. I don’t think she posted about that here, but I could be wrong. Anyway, she suggested using a food processor to cut up a large amount of onions, and mentioned that she cuts up a week’s worth of onions at once, and stores them in the fridge. At least, I hope I am remembering that correctly. That’s what I do now. It saves me time, and no tears!

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:23:27 +0000

Very cool! Love the little look into what you eat regularly, Fern. I’d love some of the Shabbat recipes you use… and the Indian ones, too. I’m wanting to expand my cooking repertoire.

Maybe a “recipe Wednesday” series should be forthcoming on LOTB?

By: Ariela

Ariela — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:04:38 +0000

I must have missed the onion tip. Do you freeze them fresh or cook them after you cut them up.
It was a very interesting interview Fern.

By: Fern

Fern — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:30:28 +0000

Thanks so much for interviewing me Hannah, it was a lot of fun!