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Wednesday is recipe day at Cooking Manager. I found some limes in the local market, where they are only available a few weeks a year. Luckily, I found this recipe for mango salsa on AllRecipes (there are more limey ideas on the Cooking Manager Facebook page). The recipe called for a teaspoon of sugar, but […]
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I’m honored that my guest blog on stress-free hosting for Rosh Hashanah has been featured in the Eater’s Digest blog at Food.Com, formerly RecipeZaar.
And while it’s not directly food related unless you volunteer in a soup kitchen, please visit my post on volunteering. It’s an entry in JobMob’s guest blogging contest, and the post with the largest number of views wins: Ten Best Practices to Volunteer Your Way to a New Job. Thanks!
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Long-time readers will realize that this recipe is unusual for Cooking Manager, where I tend to focus on more frugal ingredients. There’s a story behind my choice. A local reader asked me how to handle a large package of sliced, frozen tongue.
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Last Friday evening, after I lit the Sabbath candles, we heard a sudden deafening noise from the kitchen. I headed over to investigate despite my husband warning me away. He was sure the kitchen was about to explode.
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This traditional honey cake contains only two tablespoons of oil, but honey, coffee and spices make it satisfying and tasty. This recipe makes two generous loaves. I serve one on Rosh Hashanah, and freeze the second for dessert before the fast of Erev Yom Kippur. Wrap the cake carefully and it will keep well for […]
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If you’re celebrating the Jewish new year of Rosh Hashanah, you’ve probably started to plan. Traditional foods for Rosh Hashanah include anything sweet and round. Specific foods include round challahs, apples dipped in honey, fish, the head of a fish or lamb, fish in general, cabbage, carrots, black-eyed peas (apparently common in secular new year’s celebrations), pomegranates, dates, and beets. And I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few.
I’ve collected some links for Rosh Hashanah. Some are from my other website. I’ll be posting a low-oil honeycake recipe on Wednesday.
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In the summer, you don’t just want something light to eat. You want it to cook before your kitchen gets all heated up. Ratatouille cooks in 20-30 minutes on top of the stove, and it’s easy to make in the microwave too. (The vegetable pictured are raw.) The other day I made this recipe from […]
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Long-time readers know I enjoy learning the ins and outs of appliances. So whenever a technician visits, I talk to him (so far all male) and ask lots of questions. Of course, you have to take their advice with a grain of salt as you never know when they are trying to make you feel guilty for doing something wrong, to justify an unnecessary repair. And sometimes they are just mistaken.
Most of us have a few different types of appliances in our home, and repairmen generally specialize in one or the other. The repairman I called claimed that he worked on refrigerators, but in the end called someone else in to look at mine.
There are three main types of appliances and repairmen:
Continue reading...I brought home two cookbooks from my recent trip to the US. Mediterranean Light, by Martha Rose Shulman, and World of Jewish Cooking by Gil Marks. Just about every recipe in Shulman’s book works for me: Whole grains, legumes, vegetables and olive oil. While Marks’ recipes are intriguing, too many include a stick or two […]
Continue reading...Please welcome reader Kim Krieger for today’s interview. Kim lives with her husband and 19 month old daughter in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. What do you remember about family meals and your mother’s cooking style when you were growing up? My mom liked to cook and bake and we would cook together. We had […]
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