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Wednesday is Recipe Day at Cooking Manager. My husband bought some pumpkin in the market, so I improvised with this easy, tasty soup for our holiday meal. I got the idea to use wine from a recipe in The New Vegetarian Epicure, but I didn’t have leeks or some of the other ingredients called for. […]
Continue reading...Tell me about yourself, including your name, location, family, and website (if applicable). (Dr.) Ariella Brown. I live in Cedarhurst with my husband and children, aged nearly 9 to 16. My website is www.kallahmagazine.com and my blog is http://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/. I also write on http://www.examiner.com/x-18522-NY-Jewish-Bridal-Examiner What do you remember about family meals and your mother’s cooking […]
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Blintzes are traditionally served on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (Pentecost). Yesterday, I wrote about making blintzes or other holiday foods healthier. When I was growing up, my mother often served Empire frozen blintzes. When she first made them from scratch, almost certainly from Norene Gilletz’s book The Pleasures of Your Food Processor, the family […]
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We all remember traditional holiday foods from our childhood. But as adults, do we make adjustments in the recipe to make it healthier? I use blintzes, the fried, cheese-filled crepes served on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (Pentecost) as an example.
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Wednesday is Recipe Day at Cooking Manager. This guest post by Michelle is in honor of Shavuot (Pentecost), the Jewish holiday observed next week when it’s traditional to serve dairy. Greek salad, or horiatiki, is a rough country salad of juicy tomatoes, crisp cucumber, sliced red onion, pepper, crumbly feta cheese and plump kalamata olives. […]
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This is the third part of a series on shopping for fresh fruits and vegetables.
When you buy produce, you want the most for your money. But fruits and vegetables don’t come with an expiration date. I’ve collected these tips for helping you choose the freshest fruits and vegetables. Please share your tips in the comments.
Fruits and vegetables have seasons and you can’t always find the quality you want. Be flexible.
Always examine fruits and vegetables for blemishes, especially holes where insects may have entered. Many surface blemishes don’t affect the produce. But a soft spot will spread quickly to the rest of the fruit.
Produce, unless it is not ripe yet, should give off a fresh smell.
I’ve divided the produce into two categories: 1) Produce that starts going downhill from the moment it’s picked and 2) Fruits (mainly) and vegetables that can ripen or improve after you buy them.
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Please welcome Norma Ritter for today’s reader interview. Norma, can you tell Cooking Manager readers about yourself? My name is Norma Ritter and I live in Glenville, New York, which is just outside of Albany, the state capital. I am an ex-pat Brit who moved to the USA to marry her American sweetheart, Glenn, 36 […]
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em>Hannah, how do you start to cook healthy for kids who are used to home-cooked fast food (pasta, burgers, shnitzel/potatoes)?
It’s discouraging because sometimes the “meals* are the least eaten.
By best meals I mean the ones I plan. The well-rounded, healthiest, most diverse ingredients. These are the meals that are most likely to be mostly thrown out. It’s very discouraging as my available time for cooking is very short.
Tanya, I can sympathize. My kids used to eat a lot of those things. They still eat some of them. Here are some ideas for making gradual changes.
A reader with small children asked for specific dinner ideas. She had the following requirements: 20 minutes preparation time No food processor Not using the food processor means that you are less likely to cook with vegetables because it is more work. And while most recipes on this site that call for a food processor […]
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Please welcome Recipezaar personality Mirjam Weiss for today’s reader interview. Mirjam with Her Best Cooking Tip Name: Mirjam Weiss Location: Ra’anana, Israel Family: 1 husband, 4 daughters (one married), 3 stepsons (one married with a son), one stepdaughter Website: MiriYummy What do you remember about family meals when you were growing up? Every night at […]
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