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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Warming Sweet & Savory Red Lentil Soup

Warming Sweet & Savory Red Lentil Soup

If you follow our Side Dish column (look to the right, yes, there!) you may have noticed that our friend, Jennifer Abadi, taught a vegetarian cooking class at the JCC in NYC a few weeks ago. The class focused on meat-free sides from the Middle East, a region Abadi is intimately familiar with as her family's r...



Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Flavor Your Cooking with Middle Eastern Spices

Flavor Your Cooking with Middle Eastern Spices

Katy Morris With just a simple dash or a generous sprinkle, you can bring authentic Middle Eastern flavors to your cooking. Inspired by lots of requests from our readers following our Balaboosta cookbook give-away, we decided to consult the experts on the most oft used Middle Eastern spices. Here's...



Wednesday, March 20, 2013

What’s YOUR Charoset Story?

What’s YOUR Charoset Story?

Desperate for something to eat as the  Passover Seder progression delays the dinner, we welcome the moment when we are free to pile charoset on matzah. Ironic, isn't it, that while charoset represents the mortar used to make bricks when we were slaves in Egypt, it is somehow, the tastiest symbol at the ...



Thursday, February 28, 2013

Noshing Around the Lower East Side, NYC

Noshing Around the Lower East Side, NYC

I love a good walking tour almost as much as a hands-on cooking class. So when Jennifer Abadi sent me her Syrian cooking class schedule along with dates for Context Travel’s “Jewish Cuisine and Culture” walk on the Lower East Side, NYC, I was ready to zip on my warm boots, grab a proper winter hat and ...



Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Cooking Heart Healthy Foods & Salmon Burgers

Cooking Heart Healthy Foods & Salmon Burgers

Invite me to a cooking class?  I am in!  I love them all: demos, hands on, famous chefs, home-style cooks … I am eager to be inspired by some unfamiliar flavor or technique. But with the steep cost of these classes,  I need to choose carefully. For me that means honing in on classes that focus on usi...