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Smoked Mozzarella Bread Pudding for Mother’s Day Brunch

A savory bread pudding makes a fabulous brunch dish or vegetarian dinner.

When everyone else is going out to eat is my favorite time to stay home. Who needs the crowds, the stressed-out waitstaff or the “special” menu, where special is just a euphemism for “overpriced?” That’s why you won’t see me eating out [...]

Passover Recipe Round-Up

I enlist my sous-chefs to help me make matzo balls.

Next Monday at sundown, Jewish families across the country and indeed around the world will usher in the spring holiday of Passover with the traditional Passover Seder. If you are not Jewish, a Passover Seder may seem like a foreign concept, but in many [...]

Baking Pies with the Girl Scouts

Zuzu’s Girl Scout troop has done a wide variety of activities over the years from touring a local bank to singing for residents of a nursing home. And, of course, they sell those famous cookies. (More on that another time.) But this year, when asked what kind of activity they wanted to do, the girls [...]

Hamantaschen for Purim

Apricot and blueberry jam filled Hamentaschen

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so it is time to bake Hamantaschen — the triangular filled cookie that is traditional for the holiday. Here is a post from last year at this time with my recipe: Saturday, at sundown, the Jewish festival of Purim [...]

Chicken with Orzo

Chicken with orzo is a simple, comforting dish for the whole family.

My kids — like many kids, I suspect — prefer boneless chicken. Sure, they like to pick up a drumstick now and then, but in general, they prefer bite-sized morsels of chicken that they can spear with their forks over a whole [...]