Matzo Ball Soup requires great chicken soup and a perfect matzo ball. However that is determined by whoever is eating the matzo ball! Matzo Ball Soup is chicken soup with a matzo ball dumpling. Cooks always argue about how to make the best chicken soup and the best matzo balls. Matzo balls are alway open …
You put ‘da lime in ‘da coconut and mix um both together… and you almost have a tom ka soup recipe. Well, not quite, but I love that song! I am guessing there are as many versions of Tom Ka Soup as there are of matzo ball soup. Tom Ka Soup is a common menu …
Beet borscht, made sweet and sour style with cabbage and potatoes, may be from the Old Country, but it is just as savory and delicious today! I don’t know what made me make this blazing red beet borscht. As a child I turned my nose up at it. I don’t even recall a spoonful of …
Vietnamese Chicken Corn Soup is fast and easy and totally satisfying. I think I solved your dinner problems! You know THAT soup? That soup, that when you walk into a warm Chinese restaurant, or a Thai restaurant, or a Vietnamese restaurant, that comes with the lunch specials? This is mostly that soup. It is THAT …
Overnight sweet Matzo Brei is my new best friend. She reminds me a bit of a Dutch Pancake with sauteed apples. But then again she is a bit like bread pudding, except she’s made with matzo. And the best part is I make this caramel apple matzo brei the night before I want to serve …
This springtime matzo egg drop soup is perfect. It solves the matzo ball dilemma of sinkers or floaters by using just matzo meal and eggs that are dropped by spoonfuls into the hot broth. This forms creative little matzo drops that I just love! Every Passover one debates the merits of their matzo ball soup …
Vietnamese chicken noodle soup is made with rotisserie chicken and canned chicken broth. Infused with the flavors of 5 spice and star anise, this Vietnamese chicken pho is to die for! No, I did not disappear into the sunset. And I promise if I invite you to dinner, that I am a great host. So …
Charoset, made in the Ashkenazi style, is made with apples, raisins and nuts. This easy Passover charoset recipe with grape juice instead of wine, sweetens this already sweet concoction. One of my favorite foods at our Passover Seder, charoset is something everyone should try! As one of the oldest and most cherished dishes on the …