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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Here's
a super simple recipe that is 'semi-homemade' because it uses a cake
mix (yes, out of a box) for the dry ingredients. This is a great 'make ahead' cookie. Make the batter tonight, bake them off tomorrow! All you have to do is add
cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and a little love, and your crowd will be
begging for more of these light and delicious chocolate treats. They are, melt in your mouth, delish!
Ingredients...
- 1 (8-ounce) cream cheese (soft)
- 1 stick butter (soft)
- 1 egg
- 1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 18-ounce box chocolate cake mix
- Confection 10X sugar
- Optional: 3/4 cup chopped nuts and/or semi-sweet chocolate chips
Here's how you do it...
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| 2" apart on parchment |
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Cream together the butter and cream cheese.
- Mix in the egg and vanilla.
- Add and blend in the cake mix.
- If you are adding chips or nuts this would be the time to stir them in.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Form or scoop 1" balls and roll them in the confection sugar.
- Bake 2" apart on un-greased or parchment lined cookie sheet for 10-12 minutes. .
- Cool and enjoy.
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