Whisky and Tea Cake
Serves 10 Sukkot for me is all about practicality. How do I carry a meal from my kitchen through a couple of doors to our temporary highly decorated but often dripping shack? The answer is to make less! I’m usually all for more is more, and I feel that all occasions from birthdays to successfully […]
Shlishkas
Shliskas are Hungarian potato dumplings that are almost exactly like gnocchi with a Jewish twist. How much do we actually know about Jewish food? We each feel like experts on Bagels and challah, cholent, and gefilta fish, but in truth, there are so many incredible Jewish foods still waiting to be discovered. Waiting to be […]
Challah Kugel
The original kugel was most probably a dumpling made of bread, cooked in the Shabbat stew. A clever way to stretch the meal and at the same time use up any leftover bread from the week. With time, bread was replaced with bread dough, and eventually noodles and when potatoes became popular they were the […]
Apple Strudel 101
The earliest Strudel recipe was recorded in 1696 in Vienna. And there is definitely somewhere in my mind that every time I eat strudel I want to be sitting in a cafe in Vienna with Sigmund Freud at the next table. But making Strudel is a whole different story. The pulling of the strudel dough […]
