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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When you're looking for something sweet and delicious for Passover and you're tired of the store bought honey cakes and macaroons then try this one. I promise it's a crowd pleaser. This cake resembles the real think and takes equally as good. This one is easy and delicious.
Ingredients...
- 3 Cups Splenda Sugar Substitute OR Sugar
- 1 1/3 cups canola oil
- 8 eggs (break eggs into a separate bowl before adding to mixer)
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/3 cups Potato Starch
- OPTIONAL: 1 chopped Chopped Nuts (Walnuts work best for me)
Here's how you do it...- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Cream the oil and Sugar together.
- Add the oil
- Add the eggs
- Add the cocoa
- Add the potato starch
- Add the chopped nuts.
- When thoroughly blended, pour the batter into an UNgreased 11x14 baking pan.
- Bake @ 350F 45 minutes to one hour.
Cool and Serve.
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