Tips & Tricks from a Foodie turned Food Editor!

Shifra Klein, Editor-in-Chief, for Joy of Kosher Magazine This past Sunday I had the pleasure of attending Shifra Klein’s presentation for my Chabad Women’s Circle. Shifra is the Editor-in-Chief for Joy of Kosher magazine. She started out as a foodie, then created Bitayavon magazine with her husband, before joining forces with cookbook author Jamie Geller’s Joy of …

My first blog for The Nosher, My Jewish Learning

See below for my first blog for My Jewish Learning’s The Nosher Blog. Maple Squash Pudding When I first tasted the delicious, and later ubiquitous, butternut squash kugel, I thought I was eating something healthy. However, there is a reason it tasted like cake: It was cake. My Shabbat host readily admitted that that kugel …

Healthy Comfort Food and 5 Easy Weeknight Meals!

Are you planning an Academy Awards party? Complete with popcorn, chicken wings, nachos? I’m actually not quite sure what people usually make for these things since I’ve never eaten much of this type of food. I guess there are benefits to having a somewhat sensitive stomach. When I would try to eat the cafeteria food …

Vegan Mushroom Stroganoff, Guilt-Free and Delicious!

Want to enjoy a rich bowl of pasta, sans guilt, cream, and meat? Enjoy this recipe for vegan mushroom stroganoff! Ingredients 0.5 oz dried mushrooms (I used chanterelle) 1 package Nasoya Pasta Zero Plus noodles (or similar brand) 1 tsp coconut oil or spread 1/8-1/4 cup vegan parmesan A couple shakes (to taste) of garlic powder, sea …

Recipe: Vegan Brownies, Caramel Banana Milk Chocolate Brownies

Hello, Healthy Family, Healthy You Folks!
Out of eggs? Trapped in by the snow and still want to use your brownie mix (I used Duncan Hines Milk Chocolate Brownie Mix)? Or, like me, you just don’t see the need to add half a cup of oil to any recipe that goes into your body…?
Say “Hello” to Vegan, Caramel Banana “Milk” Chocolate Brownies!

New Kveller Blog: How to Use Tu Bishvat to Help Kids Stop Wasting Food!

You’ll never hear me tell my kids to join the “clean plate club.” Have you ever become frustrated at how much your kids waste or wondered if it really is as much as you think it is? How convenient then that we can use Tu Bishvat, the Jewish “Birthday of the Trees,” as an opportunity to reduce their wastefulness. Here’s what you can do at home.

Hazon Blog up on New York Jewish Week

Just as hip chefs love to subvert classic dishes, so did the participants at this week’s Hazon Food Conference take a careful look at the “New Jewish Food Movement” that the conference helped birth and has supported over the seven years of its existence.

Live from the Hazon Food Conference! Day 2

I am so vindicated. Gil Marks, Rabbi, Chef, Writer and literally a walking Encyclopedia (he wrote The Encyclopedia of Jewish Food!) told the crowd today that one only cooks with Italian flat leaf parsley. The curly kind is only for garnish. I have been saying this for years and I think there are a number of people in my life who thought I was crazy, a food snob, or both.

Live from the Hazon Food Conference!

Live from the Hazon Food Conference! Just made a vegan hot toddy, pickled my own vegetables to take home, started mung bean sprouts, made Slash her own sweet orange beeswax lip balm, and… is that enough? Phew! I’m tired.