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Kosher vegetarian recipes from my kitchen in Tel Aviv
Apple-pear-plum bread, or, don’t throw out that pulp from your juicemaker
September 24, 2009 at 11:00 pm | Tags: apple, bread, cake, dessert, fruit, parve, pear, plum
One of our friends, Gil, contributed 4 liters of fresh juice to our Rosh Hashanah meal — a great solution for a person with a juicer who doesn’t cook. The side effect? Massive, massive amounts of leftover fruit pulp — those 4 liters took about 15 kilos of fresh fruit to make.
I have a hard time seeing food being thrown out, so we asked him to bring us the pulp. We’d find something to do with it. Continue reading Apple-pear-plum bread, or, don’t throw out that pulp from your juicemaker…
Blue cheese lasagna with figs and zucchini
September 21, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Tags: blue cheese, dairy, fig, lasagna, pasta, zucchini
Now that it’s getting cooler, lasagna is a great dish to serve guests: It’s a meal, in that it needs no side dishes, and most people enjoy it. After all, it’s rich and cheesy, so how couldn’t you?
I’ve been making lasagna with a blue-cheese bechemel sauce, not tomato sauce. I got the initial recipe from the Barilla Web site, and tweaked it over the years. This year, I decided to add figs, in the name of the holiday. Figs and blue cheese are a great combination, one my cheese guy has been pushing all through fig season in order to boost blue cheese sales (it worked). Continue reading Blue cheese lasagna with figs and zucchini…
Festive holiday jello, and happy Rosh Hashanah
September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm | Tags: dessert, jello, lime, parve, pomegranate, rosewater, vegan, white savory (zuta levana)
Rosh Hashanah starts this Friday, and I’m hosting. Festive holiday meal! And I get to cook it all! Yay! (Well, aside from the dishes my guests are bringing.)
My excitement could easily lead to way too much food, if I weren’t limited by a combination of time and resources. Needless to say, I’ve been spending the week dreaming about what I’m going to make. And, doing trial runs of potential desserts.
In all honesty, jello isn’t my favorite dessert — there are a lot of things I’d prefer to eat, starting with well-made pastries, followed by cookies, ice cream …. well, you get the idea. But jello is pretty. It presents well. And there’ll be other desserts on the table, too. Continue reading Festive holiday jello, and happy Rosh Hashanah…
Rice pudding ice cream
September 13, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Tags: dairy, ice cream, rice, rice pudding
Yes, really. I could just call it rice ice cream, but then you’d think I’m weird. If you think about it, rice ice cream is pretty much just cold rice pudding — the cooked rice takes on a chewier texture, and the dairy-based pudding forms a soft, creamy ice cream. After all, rice pudding contains all the ingredients you’d put into a basic vanilla ice cream, plus rice.
I can’t take credit for this idea on my own.We encountered it at an ice cream shop, Arkino, on north Dizengoff. I don’t recall what exactly Arkino put into its rice ice cream, but it was quite good, and unfortunately, not one of their regular flavors. Well, no better excuse to borrow an idea. Continue reading Rice pudding ice cream…
Mashed potatoes with balsamic vinegar, basil and figs
September 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm | Tags: balsamic vinegar, basil, dairy, fig, parve, potato, vegan
Summertime means figs, and you can’t eat just one. That’s because you can’t buy just one. In fact, you can’t really buy less than a one-kilo bucket at a time. Well, there are worse plights in life.
Figs are quite an attractive fruit, and can dress up any dish. I’ve been mixing them with all kinds of savory things, since I find them too sweet to eat on their own. My cheese guy got me to buy some Roquefort last week thanks to his figs-and-Roquefort display in the window — figs sliced open, with a cube of Roquefort stuck inside. It’s quite a good snack. Continue reading Mashed potatoes with balsamic vinegar, basil and figs…
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