grandmother doesn’t talk to me since my husband is Catholic, but that’s another story entirely... BTW- Jews eat apples (with honey) on New Years to have a sweet year- hence the appropriateness of making an apple cake....

One Jewish grandmother dispenses Hanukkah recipes and wisdom.

Eat like the Alpha Hound.

Everything’s been coming up kugel lately. Kugel (literally “potato pudding”) is sort of a baked potato pancake. Its ingredients are simple: grated (using hand or meat grinder, never a food processor) potato...

I don’t know it’s Jewish name, but there’s a version of it at the link below that’s just called "Potato, Egg and Onion Appetizer." Link: http://www.toojewish.com/kosherville/recipecentral/pesach.html

So we were in Natick today trying to escape alive from the crowds at the mall and stumbled into Joan & Ed’s Deli...it didn’t taste like the best corned beef and matzo ball soup I’ve ever had, and certainly not...

Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m running out of places to eat with her and I can’t do another meal at Famous Deli, Bennies, or any other jewish-style deli/restaurant. She’s an old school Jewish grandmother...

Has anyone ever heard of using Italian prune plums to make tsimmes? My husband has been longing for his grandmother's tsimmes for years, but we could never figure out what his grandmother meant by “sour plums.” When I...

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Don’t get too fancy.

Wow, that’s great. Your grandmother is partly responsible for making my Irish Catholic mom into an amazing Jewish cook. (Second only to my great-grandmother according to my Jewish dad—but who can compete with a woman...

My family is mostly of russian-jewish origin, with one grandmother austrian-jewish. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Too bad everyone’s pretty much gone now, I have only my grandmother to ask and at 100, she...

My grandmother used to make a fantastic dish she called Hitchkushes (sp?). It was a potato cabbage dumpling. Has anyone heard of this or have a recipe?

found anything like it at a Jewish bakery, though my aunt made the same pastry and the recipe apparently came from my great-grandmother, who came from the Ukraine. I think it may have been associated with purim...I remember we...

There is a Mimi Sheraton one in the NY Times Jewish Cookbook – it’s taken from one of her cookbooks. I make it substituting boneless skinless chicken thighs for the whole chicken.

Sorry to say, it ain’t gonna happen. See the many posts on this board about the lack of any quality Jewish food in Greater Boston. I have pondered why this is the case in a city with one of the larger Jewish populations in...