From time to time, abiding by the unbending code of conduct of first generation transplants, I succumb to strong nostalgic cravings.  In case you are not the first generation transplant, let me explain.  I refer to craving foods I can’t have because there is no place to get them — either they no longer exist or […]

[SPONSORED POST]. This post is written for the HonestCooking.com NORTH Festival 2013. Dill is one of my most favorite herbs, and I use copious amounts of it in my daily cooking.  If you open my fridge on any given day, rest assured, you’ll find a bunch or two of dill somewhere in there.  I like […]

Recently, I received a request for a meat-n-potato type dish for someone who doesn’t eat vegetables.  Not judging. I am sure they have their reasons.  Rather than fussing about it, I took it upon myself to go as fancy as I could with the meat-n-potato idea, as it sounded pretty challenging. My first thought was […]

When I think of vegetables, I  think of a side dish or a salad. The vegetable could certainly play an important part of the main dish, but usually in a form of a wrap or a container for delicious stuffing, or a backdrop to fragrant meat.  To put it into an American way of thinking — vegetables are […]

Yep. We overbought bananas. Again.  I think my family is secretly trying to force me into baking sweets.  Somehow we always have exactly three overdone bananas left — three is just enough for a banana bread.

It seems these days that I am always late.  We aren’t talking appointments and school drop offs…  We are talking, weeks, even months at a time. I signed my kid up for Jewish library distribution a while back.  They send her an age appropriate book each month.  The books are supposed to showcase essentials of […]

Don’t you just love it when everything comes together and works out as if it were planned?  That’s how I felt today when (as usual at the end of the week) I was stuck with only a handful of things left in the fridge and not a whole lot of time and energy to put […]