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Kosher vegetarian recipes from my kitchen in Tel Aviv
Happiness is stuffed vegetables when it’s raining
November 8, 2009 at 2:00 am | Tags: dill, parve, pepper, rice, stuffed, tomato, vegan, zucchini
Nothing like a cold, rainy day to make me want to turn on the oven and whip up a massive tray of stuffed vegetables of all shapes and sizes. It takes about an hour to bake, and you’ll find me here, huddled next to the oven door the entire time.
You can stuff way more than just peppers — I started with six peppers, then moved on to two zucchini and four tomatoes. You could give onions the same treatment; I just wasn’t in the mood. Baking all these vegetables together in the pan adds flavor to the entire dish, though.
There they are, hot out of the oven and overflowing with rice Continue reading Happiness is stuffed vegetables when it’s raining…
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…
Bean spinach soup with a tomato base
February 22, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: beans, carrot, lentil, parve, pepper, soup, spinach, tomato, vegan, zucchini
I wasn’t going to post another soup, since they all kind of look the same, but this one came out really well. The cinnamon adds a nice touch, and all that spinach adds good flavor. In any case, I think it’s great to show what you can do without soup mix or premade broth — it’d be nice if certain restaurants were to catch on that you really don’t need these things in proper cooking. Continue reading Bean spinach soup with a tomato base…
Lentil vegetable soup
February 3, 2009 at 11:00 pm | Tags: basil, carrot, celery, lentil, parsley, parve, pepper, soup, tomato, vegan, zucchini
I’m back from my visit to the United States, back to the land of good, cheap vegetables. The first thing I did on the morning after we landed was to visit our neighborhood vegetable shop, the Ibn Gvirol Shook, where they had indeed noticed our absence (it’s nice to be missed, no?). In any case, I came home with an armful of fresh vegetables, for about half of what it would have cost me at that lovely grocery store on the corner of Amsterdam and 74th. I was quite happy. Continue reading Lentil vegetable soup…
Zucchini soup
December 25, 2008 at 1:00 am | Tags: dill, parsley, parve, potato, soup, vegan, zucchini
This is a nice, sunny yellow soup for dreary days. A roommate of mine in Haifa used to make something similar. I should note that what we call “kishu” (קישוא) here isn’t actually what the rest of the world considers zucchini — it’s a pale, light green, squash shaped like a miniature baseball bat. Continue reading Zucchini soup…
Latke bonanza
December 23, 2008 at 2:30 am | Tags: eggplant, Jewish, mushroom, parve, pear, potato, vegan, zucchini
I could never really get that excited about latkes, which I’d mostly experienced as patties of fried mashed potatoes. After all, I wouldn’t eat oily, soggy potatoes on other days of the year, so what made Hanukkah any different? But this year, I decided it didn’t have to be like that. Why not make latkes with other vegetables, seasoned like I season most anything else that comes out of my kitchen?
So I brainstormed a list of interesting taste combinations. In the end, I was limited by the amount of latkes we could possibly expect to make (and eat) in one night, and managed to make only four of the ideas I’d thought up: mushroom ginger latkes, pear sage latkes, eggplant shallot latkes and zucchini dill latkes. Continue reading Latke bonanza…
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