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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RETURN TO MY MOST RECENT RECIPES
Brightly colored peppers offer a sweet and crisp flavor to a salad. These same peppers can be oven roasted into a succulent and delicious addition to your vegetable repertoire .
When I see them on sale I buy a bag full of red, yellow and orange sweet peppers. I roast them, peel them, and then freeze them in small portions in sandwich bags. I can pull out a baggie anytime and add it to whatever I'm making.
If you've ever bought roasted peppers in a jar you will be amazed at the difference in flavor when you make it yourself. It's not complicated at all . Give it a try.
Ingredients...
- Red, Yellow, and/or Orange Sweet Peppers, cut in half, seed core removed.
- 5 -6 cloves of garlic, peeled
- Extra Virgin Olive oil to coat
- Kosher Salt & Pepper
Here's how you do it...- Pre-Heat your oven to 375F
- Line a baking sheet or roasting pan with parchment or foil.
- Arrange the peppers skin side up on the pan.
- Distribute the garlic cloves in between the peppers
- Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil
- Sprinkle with Kosher Salt & Ground Black Pepper
- Bake 45 minutes until the skins start to turn dark.
- Remove from oven to cool .
- Remove skins.
- Serve and/or freeze.
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