Category: Gluten-free
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Tomato Medley with Arugula Pesto
Don loves arugula. He will eat a bag of arugula as a snack. I love tomatoes. In fact, my mother has told me that “tomato” was my first word. I pronounced it as “apimanus” and would do anything for a tomato. I still will. I just think that the juiciness, sweetness and unique character of…
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Crockpot Pulled Turkey
This morning, I bought half of a turkey breast on the bone. It was the first turkey purchase of the holiday season and I intended to make it memorable. I placed the turkey breast in a crockpot and topped it with sliced Vidalia onions and a handful of garlic cloves. I poured one cup of…
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Peach Velvet Salmon
I’ll share a little secret with you. Last week’s leftover homemade dip or dressing becomes this week’s favorite marinade. The reason is simple. Dips have all the components needed in a marinade. They have an oil base for moisture, a flavor profile for taste and usually some acid for tenderizing.
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Sliders with Onion Slices and Frizzled Beets
And, as you know, I have become an unwitting ambassador for beets. Beets are maligned and ignored, mostly because of the unfortunate texture that many people have encountered in their childhood. Thankfully, beets are making a comeback, mostly because boiled beets are a very small part of the beet preparation pie-chart. In reality, beets are…
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Broccoli Encrusted Baked Chicken Cutlets: A Basic Lesson in Sharing
I am on a forever quest to produce great meals with minimal effort. In that endeavor, I have found many shortcuts. One of my favorites is to prepare one starter and use it in multiple recipes and in different ways. I convince myself that it is just another form of sharing, true collaboration between recipes. …
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Passover Red Wine Chicken Marsala
This perfect for Pesach (Passover) recipe stars a red wine sauce and potato flour dredging for the chicken. Although Marsala wine and flour are typically used in this recipe, I have adjusted the recipe to use red wine and Pesach gluten-free ingredients that pair so well with the flavors and themes of the Pesach seder…
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Pesach Onion Kugel
I absolutely love a challenge! In a comment on my Simply Amazing Onion Kugel, Pearl asked about adjusting this simple and delicious recipe to Pesach (Passover) cooking. I worked on making this recipe suitable for Pesach and my family contends that this recipe is even better than the original.
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Simple Cranberry Sorbet
I’ll share a secret with you. My Purim seuda (feast) menu is designed around the chametz (leavened products) that I must use up before Pesach (Passover). This year, I found myself with lots of frozen challah, hence the stuffed chicken breasts and meatballs. I found that I had three bags of fine egg noodles, and thus yerushalmi kugel was…
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A Simple Chicken Soup Upgrade
“What did you do differently to the soup?” asked Leah. “Yeah” chimed in the rest of the family. I braced myself. After all, upgrading a thirty-year constant can be a big deal. I need not have worried because they all loved the assertive flavor and color of the diced rutabaga. It was just another distinctive…
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Set It and Forget It Lentil-Vegetable Soup
There is something so hearty and comforting about lentil soup. And, there is something about taking just a few minutes to prepare a soup on these cold, snowy mornings and coming back at the end of the day to a warm, thick, velvety and delicious soup. Ordinary lentils really have that magical texture, firm yet…
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Roasted Confetti Vegetables with Cashews
This is the perfect side dish for a weeknight. It uses wholesome ingredients, takes minutes to prepare and requires only 20 minutes to roast. The meatiness of the cashews paired with the tender shreds of zucchini and rainbow carrots make this dish hearty, flavorful and satisfying.
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15 Minute Mushroom Soup
This soup was one of the best that I ever produced. Sorry, kids! Although my kids often chastise me for complimenting my own food, I subscribe to the belief that a cook may compliment or criticize their own handiwork. Why not? The soup was so flavorful and so silky that Don could not believe that…
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Out of the Bowl Tiered Salad
Who says that salad must be served in a salad and tossed? Today’s salad is about layering a gorgeous vessel with different vegetables and toppings. Its effortless simplicity achieves an elegance that highlights the colorful and flavorful vegetables themselves.
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Abracadabra Potato Kugel
I have been preparing potato kugel for as long as I remember and most kugels share similar ingredients. I have two potato kugel recipes on this blog (Davida’s Awesome Potato Kugel, Simply the Best Potato Kugel Ever and ) and they are both delicious, but rather similar. There just doesn’t seem to be much new in…
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Perfect Lean and Moist Brisket
This recipe doesn’t require marination. It also doesn’t call for any oil. What it needs, though, is time. Plenty of time. Three hours of cooking time. Oh, and onions. Plenty of onions to keep it moist. The low and slow cooking keeps the flavor and moistness. The sliced onions create a flavorful and tender blanket…
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Fan Potatoes and Family Memories
When I was young, I vividly remember my mother preparing fan potatoes. She did not serve them often. They were a rare treat. I can picture in my mind how the potatoes fanned out and how delicious they were: crisp on the outside. soft and buttery on the inside. The fins of each fan potato created pockets of…
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Perfectly Roasted and Seasoned Bok Choy
Bok choy is one of our favorite ingredients in leafy salads. It is a powerhouse of nutrition, and has a signature taste and bold texture, making it the perfect ingredient for salads that are dressed in advance. I have incorporated it into a number of salads already highlighted on the blog (see Simple, Colorful and Crunchy…
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Lemon Zinger Chicken
Sometimes the best flavors are simple ones. Lemon. Garlic. Chicken. Tea. Delicious food is simple food with no compromises in freshness, flavor, moistness and taste. Today, I prepared chicken that was tangy, flavorful and succulent. It took very little effort. It used natural ingredients. And its simplicity and taste made everyone take notice. INGREDIENTS…
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Simple Superstar Roasted Onions
Onions are the ultimate team player. They are used to start soups and sautes, taking very little credit for the impactful favor that they impart. They are sprinkled atop salads or roasts, adding spiciness and satisfying juiciness wherever they are used. They are the utility player that can be used here or there, always…
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Chana’s Low-Carb Broccoli Kugel
Last Shabbos, we hosted my brother-in-law and sister-in-law and niece for Shabbos. We always look forward to their visits. Yisroel and Chana are some of my favorite guests, so helpful and appreciative. We had a wonderful Shabbos, sharing divrei torah (words of Torah) and my father-in-law’s a’h favorite zemiros (Shabbos melodies) at our Shabbos table. Don…
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Cheesy Cabbage Steaks
I used red cabbage for this recipe, but any cabbage may be used. In this simple recipe, the red cabbage creates a stunning purple backdrop to the velvety melted cheese on top. It may be used to Passover and is gluten free, too.
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Simple Chicken Vegetable Packets
I devone of those hot and humid days that were exhausting. I just had very little energy left at the end of the day to prepare dinner. I had defrosted chicken breasts earlier to use for dinner and needed inspiration to create a simple and delicious meal. I wanted no fuss and very little effort.…
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Davida’s Awesome Potato Kugel
It is so wonderful to have Davida back from Israel. The house is a more joyful abode and Davida and her friends fill our house with laughter, music and good food. No matter how chaotic things are, Davida seems to have just the right lighthearted joke and is always willing and able to prepare delicious…
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Watermelon Jicama Salad
A few weeks ago, we had very hot weather on Shabbos. It was one of those weeks that boasted a potpourri of weather patterns. We had rain, cold, overcast skies, bursts of sunshine and then a 40 degree rise in temperatures from Friday to Shabbos. We just did not have enough time for our bodies to…
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Firecracker Cauliflower
Every once in a while, I want to serve something that surprises everyone. Cauliflower is one of those side dishes that everyone enjoys and is simply good for you. When roasted, it has both delicious flavor and texture (see Rockstar Roasted Cauliflower). This week, I decided to wake everyone’s taste buds up by adding some heat…
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Simple and Colorful Rainbow Carrot Salad
Many unusual color vegetable varieties lose their vivid color when heated, so I prefer to use these in salads and in fresh preparations…This salad is hearty, satisfying and simple to prepare. It can be made with orange carrots instead of rainbow carrots and will be equally tasty with just a few less colors of the rainbow…
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Simple 15 Minute Spring Pea Soup
I have been known to define spring as the seasonal period of time when neither heat nor air conditioning is necessary. There were many days within the past few weeks that definitely fit that definition. Although we have had some rain, we have had some lovely days filled with cool, breezy weather and intermittent sunshine.…
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Fresh and Bright Carrot Soup
Cool weather is soup weather. When the weather is cool, my crockpot does not leave my counter. This carrot soup is bright and fresh, simple to prepare and delicious. The gorgeous color and silky texture will make this a go-to recipe. INGREDIENTS 1 container chicken broth 2 pounds of carrots, peeled and cut into chunks…
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Individual Sushi Salads
Sushi salads eliminate most of the fussiness of rolling sushi. I can choose the proportions of each element in the sushi salad, favoring more vegetables and fish than rice and nori.
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Simple Lean Kosher for Passover Brisket
The briskets that I purchased were leaner than I expected and I was nervous that they would cook up tough. When this happens, I usually smother the roast in fresh or french fried onions. This creates a blanket of moisture that replaces the fat and protects the tender beef.
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Passover Meat Muffins
Meat muffins are just individual meatloaves prepared in round ramekins and topped with mashed potato or sweet potato icing. They are whimsical enough to entice the children and delicious enough for even the adults to try.