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Featured Recipes
Lemony Saffron Couscous
Recipe for Lemony Saffron Couscous, a savory side dish with lemon, chickpeas, pine nuts and cilantro. Kosher, Meat or Pareve, Vegan option. Read More
Smoky Roasted Cauliflower
How to roast cauliflower with smoked paprika, olive oil, and salt. Easy, tasty recipe. Healthy, gluten free, dairy free, vegan, kosher, pareve. Read More
Mujadara
Learn to make mujadara in the traditional Indian style – fluffy white basmati rice, tender brown lentils, cumin & salt with caramelized onions. Read More
Creamy Israeli Salad with Dill
A creamy twist on Israeli Salad with Persian cucumbers, tomatoes, chickpeas, Greek yogurt, lowfat sour cream, fresh dill, and lemon juice. Read More
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Mary Goldberg’s Passover Mandel Bread
Learn to make Passover Mandel Bread from the recipe of a 104 year-old Jewish woman named Mary Goldberg. Kosher for Pesach, Pareve. Read More
Michael Berkowits’ Tiramisu
Read the story of a Holocaust survivor and learn his favorite recipe for tiramisu. Kosher, Dairy or Pareve. Read More
Marha Pörkölt – Hungarian Beef Paprika Stew
Learn to make traditional Jewish Hungarian Beef Stew with paprika, green bell peppers and tomato. Goulash, one pot meal, kosher, meat Read More
Rosa Parks’ Peanut Butter Pancakes
Learn to make Rosa Parks’ Featherlite Peanut Butter Pancakes with this vintage recipe and step-by-step photos. Kosher, Dairy, Vegetarian. Read More
The Golden Girls Cheesecake
Recipe for The Golden Girls Cheesecake. Celebrate Betty White’s birthday with Sophia Petrillo’s Double Fudge Amaretto Ricotta Cheesecake. Read More
Elvis Presley’s Sunday Meatloaf
Make Elvis Presley’s Sunday Meatloaf, a recipe from the Presley Family Cookbook, and learn about the King’s Jewish ancestry. Kosher, Meat. Read More
Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Cake
Learn to make Emily Dickinson’s recipe for Coconut Cake from an antique recipe in Emily’s handwriting. Kosher, Dairy, Cocoanut. Read More
Potato Bhajee
Vintage kosher Jewish Indian recipe for Potato Bhajee from a 1922 cookbook called the Jewish Cookery Book. Pareve. Read More
A Vintage Jewish Cookbook from Calcutta, India
The Shiksa in the Kitchen explores the history of Jews in India, and a kosher vintage Jewish cookbook published in Calcutta in 1922. Read More
Emily Dickinson, A Poet in the Kitchen
Emily Dickinson is best known as one of the greatest poets in American history. But did you know that she loved to cook and bake? Read More
What Elvis Ate – Skillet Cornbread
Learn to make Southern-style skillet cornbread with buttermilk, the way Elvis Presley might have enjoyed it at Graceland in Memphis. Read More
Happy Birthday Lucille Ball!
Celebrating Lucille Ball and her show I Love Lucy on what would have been her 100th birthday. Find out what Lucy’s favorite food was. Read More
Chocolate Icebox Pie
Learn to make Chocolate Icebox Pie topped with whipped cream and nuts from the vintage 1950′s cookbook, Recipes from Old Virginia. Kosher, Dairy Read More
Kourabiedes – Greek Butter Cookies
This authentic recipe for Rena Carasso’s Kourabiedes, aka Greek Butter Cookies, appears in the Holocaust Survivor Cookbook. Kosher, Dairy. Read More
The Levin Family—Polish Ashkenazi Food and Traditions (Part 2)
The Shiksa in the Kitchen explores Jewish food history in an old family memoir belonging to an Ashkenazi family from the Pinsk region of Poland. Read More
Uncle Dov’s Memoir: Polish Ashkenazi Food and Traditions (Part 1)
The Shiksa in the Kitchen explores Jewish food history in an old family memoir belonging to an Ashkenazi family from the Pinsk region of Poland. Read More
