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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If you're like me we are always looking for new ways to delight our Thanksgiving guests.
This recipe is an easy crowd pleaser. If you're looking to cut the calories simply substitute Splenda for the white sugar, Splenda Brown Sugar Blend for the brown sugar, and you can even substitute whole wheat flour for the white.
Any way you mix it, you're going to love the results.
Be creative... add some chopped apples or snipped apricots with the cranberry sauce. Or add chopped pecans to the crumble mixture.
Ingredients...
- 1 and 1/2 cups uncooked rolled oats (not the quick type)
- 1/2 cup flour
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup COLD butter or margarine (choose a healthy version)
- 16 ounce can Whole Berry (preferably) or Jelled Cranberry Sauce
Here's how you do it...
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Blend together the oats, flour and brown sugar.
- Add in butter until crumbly. (If you do not have a pastry cutter use a fork to do this)
- Spread half of the mixture in a greased 8" square baking dish.
- Evenly spread the cranberry sauce as the next layer.
- Add the remaining half of the crumble mix as the top layer.
- Bake 45 minutes.
This is delicious served warm with a scoop of vanilla (or your favorite) ice cream.
Good for 8-9 servings.
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