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Wednesday is Recipe Day at CookingManager.Com. Click here to submit a recipe. Leah shares an easy recipe for the food processor: Grilled Eggplant Dip Ingredients: 1 large eggplant 1 red bell pepper 1 large tomato 1 cloves garlic 3 tbsp cup olive oil small bunch cilantro ½ tsp paprika salt to taste Instructions: Grill the […]
Continue reading...Wednesday is Recipe Day at CookingManager.Com. Stuffed cabbage, or holishkes, are traditionally served on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot and most often on the seventh day, the half-holiday of Hoshana Rabba. Anything that must be filled can seems daunting, but stuffed cabbage is forgiving. The worst thing that could happen is that the rice would […]
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This post contains details of how I cooked the meals for my son’s bar mitzvah. This system can work whether you are cooking a large number of meals for one or two people, or one meal for a lot.
The most time-consuming parts of most cooking jobs are shopping, preparing vegetables, and washing up. So make sure to allow enough time for these.
Continue reading...On Monday I posted Six Low-Tech Kitchen Tools to Save Time and Money. And Thursday I asked readers whether they admit to guests that the food isn’t so great. Posting will continue to be light for the next two weeks, during the remainder of the Jewish holiday season. If you have a recipe or other […]
Continue reading...A classmate in my high school public speaking class began his talk by apologizing for his sore throat. When he finished, the teacher commented and advised the class never to apologize in advance.
She said, “Don’t set up your audience to expect something less than excellent. Because you never know.”
I apply this principle to entertaining.
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When I’m cooking, I find myself using the same inexpensive tools again and again. I like gadgets as much as the next person, but I try not to clutter the kitchen with rarely used items.
These are my favorites:
Continue reading...Posts for the week of September 13 on CookingManager.Com: Sunday’s post explained How to Defrost a Freezer. On Monday, I shared my mother’s recipe chart for a homemade baking mix. On Wednesday, Abbi shared a recipe for Vegetable Soup with Chicken Knaidlach (dumplings). And yesterday, I typed up my vegetable calculation chart as a spreadsheet […]
Continue reading...When I have a lot of cooking like I do today, I often prepare a chart to add up how many of each vegetable I need to prepare. Today, the day before the two-day holiday of Rosh Hashanah, I got the idea of making it into a spreadsheet, and Leora suggested I blog about it.
I’m hoping to embed it into this post, but I can’t tell yet if it will work.
Continue reading...Today’s recipe comes from Abbi of Confessions of a Startup Wife. See her blog for more recipes.
This is a lighter take on chicken vegetable soup that doesn’t take hours to make but you still get the chicken-y taste and feel of the “real thing”. It’s a nice dinner for mid week or quickie Friday night when you don’t have a lot of guests. It also takes kindly to improvisation.
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