What is a Balaboosta?
Balaboosta (n.)(bah-lah-b00-sta) A Yiddish term meaning the perfect housewife, homemaker, wonderful mother, cook, and gracious hostess. She does it all and does it well.
I make simple food with easy recipes and I like to try new things. My family and friends love my cooking and always ask me to share, with them, what I know about food, flavor, and technique.
I'm not a professional chef and I've had no formal culinary training. What I know and do in the kitchen comes from three women...Nana, Grandma Della, and Rose, my mom. Each one of them knew more about putting a meal on the table than any fancy chef in a white hat. They were the ultimate
Balaboostas.
What I offer you is a lifetime of experience in the kitchen with my compliments and theirs. I hope they'd be proud. I will bring you my recipes as I make them with photos of the actual food I'm preparing. I'm no professional photographer either but I promise, my food will speak for itself in every picture.
The food on my table isn't stacked in a trendy tower.
Instead, my food is stacked with flavor and full of my passion for cooking. So please come in, make yourself comfortable, and enjoy.
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Disclaimer: While most of my recipes are "Jewish Style", I do sometimes cook with pork. This might have been a great disappointment to some but my grandmothers knew that I live in modern world. I light Shabbos candles religiously but I have to admit...I do not keep a Kosher home.
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A crisp fresh salad made with cucumbers, tomatoes, and hearts of palm tossed with a lemony shallot simple dressing.
Ingredients...
- 1/2 cup chopped cucumber.
- 1 medium tomato, cut in bite sized chunks or a handful of ripe grape tomatoes.
- 2 sticks canned Hearts of Palm, sliced into bite sized chunks
- 1 small shallot, peeled and finely chopped
- 1/8 cup canola oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Salt and Pepper
Here's how you do it...
- Put the chopped shallot in the bowl you will serve in.
- Add the canola oil.
- Squeeze in the lemon (removing pits of course)
- Add a pinch of salt and pepper to taste.
- Mix well with a fork.
- Taste it. Adjust the salt/pepper.
- Add the cut cucumbers, tomatoes, and hearts of palm..
Toss, serve, and enjoy.
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