Be a Balaboosta: Holiday Recipes

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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Holiday Recipes - Passover, Chanukah

Let's face it, when Passover comes around we're all looking for ways to make something that doesn't taste like Matzoh and when we put a dessert on the table we want to please our family with something as delicious as we would serve them any day of the year while keeping in mind what we can and cannot use to do this.

So many recipes can be adapted for use on Passover. If they are simple recipes that call for bread crumbs you can simply replace those crumbs with matzoh meal.
These recipes are all ones that I've used on Passover. They're wonderful and my family thinks they're great. That being said, I think you and yours might enjoy them too. Give it a shot.

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HOW TO? Freeze Ribs

Time saving hint! I buy my ribs at the local warehouse club and they sell 2 huge racks per pack. When I get home from the store I cut each rack in half and boil them immediately. Then I freeze the par-cooked halves we're not eating that night. Lay the two halves side by side, one facing up and one facing down, in a zip lock bag. Fold the bag over so the ribs spoon with each other. That way there's plastic between keeping them separate. This will shorten the defrost time when we're in the mood for ribs again. Half the cooking is already done!
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Hummus - Nutritional Information

Hummus is made of only a few ingredients. When you really examine it, Hummus is made of 60-70% water. Other than water the most important ingredient is tahini (a paste made from ground sesame seeds). The tahini is mostly fat but this fat is a good one. It contains those omega-3 fatty acids that have proven to be beneficial in the control of cholesterol.
Hummus is quite satisfying and does not raise the blood glucose level very much making it a good dietary choice.
For a fantastic and easy recipe CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW