EST. 2011 BY LIZ RUEVEN
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Winter Borscht & a Class to Sway You

Winter Borscht & a Class to Sway You
Borscht, a simple beet soup with roots in Eastern Europe, never held much appeal for me. So when Rabbi Evan Krame, spiritual leader of The Jewish Studio, suggested that I teach a zoom cooking session about borscht, I politely suggested other seasonal options. But NO. He wanted BORSCHT as the subject of thi...


Wednesday, January 22, 2020

More than Just a Warming Winter Vegetable Minestrone

More than Just a Warming Winter Vegetable Minestrone
Just nine miles up the road from my home in CT there is a community of women living in a rambling group home on a tidy street of multi-family residences. There is an American flag fluttering in the stiff wind on a frigid January evening. Residents are veterans in need of support, shelter, services and nourish...


Sunday, January 7, 2018

Warming Winter Vegetable Soup & Kosher Like Me on TV

Warming Winter Vegetable Soup & Kosher Like Me on TV
Simmering this vegetarian winter soup on television this morning was thrilling for this food blogger! Simply put: It was mind-blowing and humbling to share my passion for supporting local CT farmers and my love for easy kosher recipes with a larger state-wide audience. I like to make this soup both dairy-f...


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...