Recipe This Two-Hot Sauce Grilled Chicken combines Israeli favorites By Faith Kramer Jun 5, 2023 The Jews of North Africa and Yemen created hot sauces that have become Israeli favorites: zhug (made from fresh chili peppers) and harissa (made from dried ones). I combine these with another Israeli…
Recipe D is for delicious on National Doughnut Day By Faith Kramer May 30, 2023 In honor of National Doughnut Day on June 2, I am featuring two doughnut recipes — including a fried, yeasted version adapted from former Bay Area resident Rachel Teichman’s “D is for Donut,” a new…
Recipe Nacho quiche: perfect for Shavuot and Mother’s Day By Faith Kramer May 11, 2023 “Nachos meets quiche” is how I describe this lush recipe inspired by three important things: a recent camping trip through the Southwest, Shavuot, and Mother’s Day. I had already been planning to…
Recipe Tahini and eggplant add Mideast flair to turkey meatballs By Faith Kramer Apr 26, 2023 I’ve combined some of my favorites — roasted eggplant, sautéed onions, turkey meatballs and tahini sauce — in this take on siniyah, a Middle Eastern dish with Palestinian roots. There are several…
Recipe Perfect for Shabbat: Moroccan fish and pomegranate eggplant By Faith Kramer Apr 18, 2023 Two recently published kosher cookbooks inspired a recent Shabbat dinner that wowed my guests. I served the Pomegranate-Glazed Eggplant from Naomi Ross’ cookbook “The Giving Table” (Menucha…
Recipe Help! I need a main course and a tasty Pesach dessert By Faith Kramer Mar 28, 2023 Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. “What should I serve for a non-seder dinner during Passover?” and “What should I make for an alternative Passover…
Recipe These crispy li’l matzah balls go with everything By Faith Kramer Mar 21, 2023 Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. I’ve given some traditional Passover foods a bit of an untraditional spin this year, making my matzah balls crispy and…
Recipe Fall spices put some spring in your hamantaschen By Faith Kramer Feb 27, 2023 Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Purim is nearly upon us, so of course I’ve been thinking of hamantaschen. This year I’m using a lightly spiced dough…
Recipe This poppy seed kugel is perfect for Purim By Faith Kramer Feb 20, 2023 Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately for a recipe for noodle kugel, a decadent dairy, baked casserole inspired…
Recipe Honey, fruits and nuts star in this Tu B’Shevat dessert By Faith Kramer Feb 2, 2023 The New Year of the Trees, or Tu B’Shevat, is a joyous time to eat fruits and fruit-based dishes. Honeyed Freekeh with Dried Fruits and Almonds combines flavors and traditions from the global Jewish…
TV Has 'Hunters,' the Holocaust revenge fantasy, had a change of heart? By PJ Grisar, Forward Jan 12, 2023 “Hunters” season two opens in Austria and, even before it showed a pair of severed eyeballs affixed to a butter sculpture as a Yiddish version of Kelis’ “Milkshake” plays, the show sent…
Recipe Antidote to bad weather: Kurdish Jewish dumpling stew By Faith Kramer Jan 10, 2023 Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. The recent foul weather has left me craving a traditional Jewish favorite — Shabbat stew, a warming and filling…
Recipe One-pot recipes serve up big Jewish flavors with little fuss By Faith Kramer Jan 5, 2023 Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. I like big flavors, I cannot lie. But do big flavors have to mean a big fuss? These one-pot recipes based on Jewish…
Recipe Enrich your holiday pot roast with Genovese onion-wine sauce By Faith Kramer Dec 14, 2022 My favorite souvenir from a trip is an idea for a recipe. During a recent visit to Italy, I tasted a beefy onion and wine pasta sauce in Naples. Genovese sauce is rich and full flavored, and I…
Recipe Caramelized onions and ‘bacon’ give these latkes oomph By Faith Kramer Dec 8, 2022 Looking to change up your latkes this year? Try these. They are filled with the oomph of caramelized onion and, if you want, the smokiness of “bacon” — using turkey, beef or plant-based strips. This…
Recipe This rabbi is writing a book on the foods (and recipes) of the Talmud By Faith Kramer Nov 17, 2022 What foods did the sages eat and write about? What does that tell us about Jews of ancient times? Rabbi Rebecca Joseph has pondered such questions in her studies of the Talmud and other classical…
Recipe With new cookbook, curing your own lox is easier than you think By Faith Kramer Nov 9, 2022 What’s for brunch Thanksgiving weekend and throughout the winter holiday season? At our house, the menu will center on home-cured lox served with cream cheese spreads adapted from Cathy Barrow’s new…
Recipe My real comfort food is baked ziti, not kugel By Faith Kramer Nov 1, 2022 In the New York neighborhood where I grew up, even if you weren’t Italian, you cooked like you were. Thus, the comfort food of my youth wasn’t kugel or blintzes. It was eggplant parmesan, lasagna…
Recipe No-bake ‘millionaire’ bars are a rich treat for a sweet Simchat Torah By Faith Kramer Oct 13, 2022 Marking the end of the annual Torah reading cycle, Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days on the Jewish calendar. Tradition calls for dancing with Torah scrolls and eating festive meals and…
Recipe Dinner in the sukkah: try this spice-packed chicken rolo By Faith Kramer Oct 3, 2022 Chicken Rolo with Kale Filling and Tomato-Apricot Sauce is perfect for dinner under the sukkah this Sukkot, which begins at sundown Oct. 9. The rolo, or meatloaf, combines Italian, Sephardic and…
Recipe Start the year in Morocco with this veggie-rich Rosh Hashanah dinner By Faith Kramer Sep 14, 2022 Rosh Hashanah dinner in the Moroccan tradition often includes a dish of seven vegetables, many symbolic of the New Year, such as pumpkin for calling attention to our good deeds and leeks for…
Recipe This Rosh Hashanah, fill up on symbolic dips, bites and small plates By Faith Kramer Sep 7, 2022 Treat your Rosh Hashanah dinner guests to a welcoming array of appetizers that are not only tasty but also symbolic of our wishes for the new year. Chard Tahini Dip, Honey with a Kick, Whipped Garlic…
Recipe Let these Middle Eastern flavors spice up crunchy oven fries By Faith Kramer Aug 22, 2022 Crunchy, lightly spiced potatoes are tossed with fresh garlic and parsley for a tasty take on a Kramer family favorite: double-cooked oven fries. This version is flavored with a Yemeni hawaij…
Organic Epicure Wine (and pastrami) flowed at L’Chaim Napa food and wine festival By Alix Wall Aug 10, 2022 Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. The pastrami was plentiful and the wine was flowing on Aug. 7 at the CIA at Copia in Napa, where Congregation Beth…
Recipe Tahini, silan and dates star in these frozen desserts By Faith Kramer Aug 8, 2022 Tahini and dates give two summer frozen treats a Middle Eastern twist. Tahini and Silan “Ice Cream” is a vegan frozen dessert flavored with earthy sesame seed paste and sweet-tart silan (aka date…