The moment I’d resigned myself to having eggs for dinner, even though I’d had them for lunch, because I’m the worst dinner eater/cooker ever these days, I looked out my window into the backyard and spotted all these bright red ornaments.

A couple weeks ago we went to visit the husband’s fam. There was a barbecue, and I was in charge of bringing dessert. (And what’s new with you?) I needed something easily transportable, something I could make a couple days in advance and that I knew would keep well, even improve with age, and so [...]

What with holidays and more holidays and birthdays taking precedence, I didn’t get to tell you about this fantastic breakfast I made like three weeks ago. Similar to wheat berries, farro is apparently something you can eat for breakfast. Hearty and satisfying, a little bit sweet, a little bit creamy, a little bit licoricey, this [...]

“How the hell does one complicate a roast chicken?!?!” was the response I got when I texted my cousin that I’d made a really good roast chicken, “but it was a complicated one.” How does one turn a dish that should be simple and straightforward into a four-hour-long headache of loads of dirtied pots and [...]

Baklava. Perfect for Rosh Hashanah and yet I’ve never seen it made. I can speculate as to why. It’s a pain in the arse and, not to generalize, most of the Jewish women I’m acquainted with do not concentrate their efforts on desserts. Their energy instead goes into more worthy causes: chicken soup, brisket, stuffed cabbage, [...]

Oh, hey there! How’s it goin? It feels like it’s been forever. I’ve been thinking about this bruschetta post for days but, um, I’ve been distracted. With changes. Changes in my life. Big deal end of era changes. Huge sigh of relief rebirth kinds of changes. Maybe I’m being a bit dramatic. It doesn’t feel [...]

Does blue cheese-honey ice cream sound good to you? Take a moment to think about it. It could be good, no? You may be a little skeptical, but you’d try it, wouldn’t you? It’s got the sweet, it’s got the savory, and ooh, it would probably be very nice drizzled with honey and topped with some [...]

So, I recently went through two very exciting major lifestyle changes, the first of which has absolutely nothing to do with this cake, the second of which has everything to do with it: 1. I am now an official Jewess (yes, I had to go in the mikvah; no, the rabbi didn’t see me naked); 2. [...]