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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 [...]

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 [...]

Galentine's Day Breakfast

That shortcake biscuit was supposed to be heart-shaped….

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your friends as well as your families and loved ones. This is a post from last year about a special breakfast I made for my girlfriends right [...]

Holiday Party Food

Marinated grape tomatoes and mozzarella

For the last of my Twelve Parties for 2012 — okay so it ended up only being nine parties, but who’s counting? — we threw a holiday cocktail party for a small group of friends and neighbors. Instead of holding the party on Saturday night, which always feels like [...]