Gardening, Time & Memory
When I started eating home-grown vegetables (I’ve been doing it for about five years) I learned that the local supermarket was not really selling vegetables. Those objects sold in the produce section looked and felt like vegetables but they didn’t taste like vegetables, at least when compared to my home-grown ones. I also learned that [...]
Lemon Risotto With Brussels Sprouts
Brussels sprouts were never high on my list of “must have” vegetables. If I had any vegetables at all it was usually something like broccoli, lettuce (Romaine; Boston) and, perhaps some carrots for good eyesight.1 But this past Thanksgiving I had brussels sprouts for the first time and, well, I survived. So when I spotted [...]
Glazed Ham
Glazed ham…what else do you need to know?
Chicken Sorrentino
This is incredibly easy to make and absolutely delicious. No special skills are needed for making this dish. The quantities for the ingredients are rough figures…a little more…a little less…couldn’t hurt. At the end of the recipe I offer a few obvious substitutions that can be made for some of the ingredients. Preparation and cooking [...]
Making Pizza: Looks Lousy…Tastes Great
Some people are really good with handling dough and making it do what they want it to do. I’m not one of them. Perhaps I will get better with practice so, for now, I’m concerned less about aesthetics and more about taste. After making a pletzel, I realized that it wasn’t difficult to get a [...]
Shrimp Ceviche
Easy to make and has a wonderful taste.
Health Food Focus: A Pletzel For Your Thoughts
Let me answer your question right away. A “pletzel” is also known as an onion flat or onion board. It’s a simple food that satisfies the FDA’s nutritional requirements for dough, onions and poppy seeds. “The heart of Jewish Paris is the Pletzel, a Yiddish name for the old 13th century Jewish quarter found in [...]
Ask the Rabbi: “Are Thin Mints and Ring Jells Reflections of the Platonic Form of Scrumptious Food? And Where Do Samoas Fit Into This Schema?”
Anyone who is familiar with Girl Scouts Thin Mints knows how easy it is to devour an entire box in one sitting. As we enter the Passover holidays we find that, amongst assimilated Jews, an entire box of Joyva’s Ring Jells can also be devoured in one sitting.1 Of the four questions that immediately come [...]
Cucumber Salad…With A Kick
This is a simple dish that tastes great. It’s “cool as a cucumber” (sorry, couldn’t resist that one) and a hot green pepper assures that it packs a punch. Ingredients 2 large cucumbers 1 sweet onion (a small onion is fine) 1 jalapeno pepper or hot green pepper 1/4 cup of shredded carrot 1/3 cup [...]
Chicken Rollatini – Easy to Make…Tastes Great Too!
The recipe below will serve three people or two fairly hungry people. It should be served with linguine and some nice Italian bread in order to fulfill federal nutrition guidelines.1 You’ll note that in most cases no specific quantity is listed for the ingredients. With this recipe it is proportion – not precision – that [...]
Health Food Focus: Banana Chocolate Turnover
This is one recipe that will challenge the A.D.D.er. who has little or no cooking skills. However, the results – a hot banana-chocolate filling – are worth every bit of frustration especially when served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The main challenge lies in working with Phyllo (a/k/a, Fillo) dough, a paper thin [...]
Chicken Cordon Bleu
This recipe is perfect for the A.D.D.er who thrives on hyperfocused multi-step processes. It begins with thinly sliced chicken breasts and progresses to a rolling, flouring, egg coating, bread crumb covering and frying process that is topped off with a sauce making and baking process. None of these steps are complicated…but there are many of [...]
