Category: Kid-friendly recipes
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Simple Cheesy Zucchini Logs: Gluten Free and Low-Carb
Davida and her friend, Chava, made delicious calzones for Melave Malke a few weeks ago: Davida’s Easy and Delicious Calzones for a Melave Malka Feast. Although the calzones looked and smelled heavenly, Don and I were only able to enjoy them vicariously. Since we are still on low-carb diets, we needed to find an alternative cheesy…
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Simple and Easy 5-Ingredient No-Boil Lasagna
This is the simplest and most delicious lasagna recipe that you will ever make. It requires one mixing bowl and one baking lasagna pan with no boiling . It creates a firm and easy to slice lasagna with minimal effort and mess. It takes only a few minutes to prepare and one hour…
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Davida’s Easy and Delicious Calzones for a Melave Malka Feast
Melave Malka (Saturday night meal) is the name given to the meal that we eat at the Shabbos has departed. The literal meaning of the words Melave Malka is “accompaniment of the queen”, referring to our escorting of the Shabbos Queen out of our homes after the spiritually uplifting Shabbos. The Shabbos is often metaphorically described as a…
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Simple Onion Baked Chicken Cutlets
This recipe is a simple go-to recipe when time is short and I need to crank out a delicious and hearty meal with very little lead time and a minimum of effort. It requires very little hands-on time and can be baked in the oven in about 20 minutes. It is crispy and crunchy, delicious and very…
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A Simple One Pot Meal: Low-Carb Cauliflower Couscous with Chicken
I am still on a low-carb high-protein diet and I am feeling great. I am always on the lookout for low-carb options that mimic the texture of carb-heavy foods that I once craved. Cauliflower is an excellent ingredient to mimic the texture of rice, potato and/or couscous. I have developed a recipe for cauliflower…
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Simple and Wow! Lady Finger Strawberry Shortcake
Pesach (Passover) is a springtime holiday that falls out in the Hebrew month of Nissan. Our Jewish lunar calendar has a leap month designed to make sure that Pesach always falls out in the spring. This year was a Jewish leap year and therefore Pesach falls out in late April, a full month later on the…
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Atkins Baked Meatballs with Cauliflower
For Pesach (Passover) this year, I am trying to tailor my original recipes to meet the criteria of my low-carb diet. For the holidays, I usually prepare baked meatballs. I find that they are simple to prepare, delicious and kid-friendly. I love the baked method because it allows me to remove all the fat that drips off…
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Baked Spaghetti Squash with Sauce and Cheese
Davida and her friend, Chava, made dinner for themselves this week. They looked around the kitchen and found a spaghetti squash sitting on the counter. They roasted it, scraped it, filled it with sauce and cheese and then rebaked it just until the cheese melted. It was a simple and delicious meal, gluten free and kosher…
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Bubby’s Gedemfte Chicken: Stewed Chicken for the Pesach Seder
Every year for the Pesach (Passover) seder, my mother-in-law a’H would prepare her famous Gedemfte Chicken. We all could barely pronounce its name, but we would all so look forward to this delicacy. There was nothing fussy about it. It was simple, it was delicious and it was falling-off-the-bone succulent. During the year, the kids would ask me to…
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Simple Low-Carb Broccoli Crust Pizza: Perfect for Passover
Cauliflower rice has become the rage as an ingredient in faux fried rice and as a low-carb pizza crust alternative. As an experiment, I tried similar adaptations of broccoli and have found it to work beautifully. My family is always looking for something delicious and nutritious to eat on Erev Pesach (the eve and day…
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Simple and Passover-Ready Individual Mushroom Onion Quiches
My friend’s daughter, Gila, is getting married and her friends planned a shower for her. I volunteered to make a dairy Onion-Mushroom Quiche. Since the shower guests may be arriving at different times, I thought that it would be best to prepare individual mini-quiches. That way, the platters would look complete all evening and the individual quiches could…
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Simply the Best Potato Kugel Ever
This week, I have started compiling my favorite simple Pesach recipes. Here is one that I plan to make for Pesach this year. My daughter, Michelle, was married last June and moved to California. While growing up, Michelle never really showed much interest in cooking, but was always quite a baker. Since getting married, though, Michelle…
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Simple and Spiralized Salami Slinky: Three Ways
For our Purim seuda (festive meal), I wanted to prepare something that would be original, interesting to serve and fun enough for the kids. I set up a dinner buffet with a carving station. I wanted something that could be baked right in the oven with the other meats. I came up with this simple and spiralized…
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Wow Waffles: A Recipe Simple Enough for Papa
Avigail (age 2) and JuJu (age 11 months) are here to visit. Avigail announced that she would like “eggies” for dinner and that JuJu would like waffles. We all know that JuJu enjoys anything that Avigail decides for him and will even finish Avigail’s omelet, if given the chance. JuJu loves to eat, especially when his…
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Meat and Potatoes Cupcakes for Every Child at Heart
Tzippy Respler I’m always looking for interesting, nutritious, kid-friendly and delicious recipes for my grandchildren, Avigail (age 2+) and Judah (9 months old). They are hearty eaters and they will have quite a surprise when I serve these protein cupcakes. I have taken my favorite meatloaf and mashed potatoes recipes and have combined them into these easy…
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Kaitlyn’s Berry “Fresh” Muffins
Last week, Kaitlyn sent two-year old Avigail to playgroup with a muffin in her lunch bag. The muffin looked and smelled so delicious that Avigail’s teacher asked Kaitlyn for the recipe. After school that afternoon, Kaitlyn and Avigail made another batch of muffins, wrapped a couple of them for the teacher along with the recipe. Avigail…