25 memorable dishes for Memorial Day celebrations. Many are great for take-alongs or picnics; all work well for entertaining friends or family at indoor or outdoor buffets. Do let us know which ones you try! And, share your favorite buffet recipes with us.

Starters
Green Olive Dip
Guacamole Autentico
Eggplant Caviar with Pita Chips
Fresh Tomato Dip
Parve Ranch Dipping Sauce with fresh cut veggies

Mains
Mustard Ginger BBQ Wings
BBQ Chicken
BBQ Sauce and BBQ Rub
BBQ Boneless Ribs
BBQ Pulled Chicken Sandwiches
KosherEye Signature Cole Slaw
Up a Notch Baked Beans
Wickles Potato Salad

Desserts
All American Apple Pie or Peach Crumb Pie
Ice Cream Pie
Cashew Cream Served Over Fruit
Marlee's Secret Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
4 Ingredient No Churn Ice Cream (Dairy)
Bourbon Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie

Drinks and Spririts
Lemonade Iced Tea
Honey Mint Spritzer
Salute to America Martini
Singapore Sling
Sangria
Holiday Punch

with Family, Friends, and Cheesecake!

This meaningful  work, Circle of Jewish Holidays*, by Ben Avram, depicts the cycle of Jewish holidays. It begins at the Jewish New Year and continues to Shavuot, the receiving of the Torah --  with Jerusalem at the center of Jewish Life. (Available from  the Blue and White Gallery in Jerusalem*).

KosherEye Shavuos Cookbook

25 of our Best, Most Popular Recipes
Meatless, Dairy or Parve
Ready to Print, Share, Pin and Cook!

Yes, we've made these. Yes they are fabulous. Most can be made dairy or parve. If you have questions, we are here to answer them. Share your comments below or send them to contactus@koshereye.com.

1. "Crabmeat" Quiche - dairy
2. Easy Eggplant Parmesan Casserole ]]> ContactUs@KosherEye.com (Allan Scher) Special Menus Sun, 05 May 2013 23:47:37 +0000 http://week-www.koshereye.comnwww.week-www.koshereye.com/special-menus/2346-its-purim-lets-eat-a-drink.html http://week-www.koshereye.comnwww.week-www.koshereye.com/special-menus/2346-its-purim-lets-eat-a-drink.html Purim is a festive holiday that celebrates the deliverance of the Jews from their enemies, in the biblical Book of Esther, and it includes eating and drinking. Let's face it, we Jews have wonderful food customs that are associated with most of the holidays. On Purim it is customary to give Mishloach Manot – baskets filled with food and drink. It is also customary on Purim to have a festive meal  called the Purim se'udah (meal), AND..would you believe, we are supposed to drink alcoholic beverages!

From Pastry Chef Rachelle D. Ferneau, her recipe for Hamantaschen with "Easy as Pie" Fillings – apple pie or pecan filling. They are featured in her article of the same name.

Chef and cookbook author Laura Frankel shares several of her favorite hamantaschen recipes:
• Hamantaschen with Homemade Chocolate Hazelnut Spread
• Hamantaschen with Rosewater and Almond Filling

Cookbook author Pam Reiss shares one of her favorites:
• Almond Hamantashen with Apricot Amaretto Filling

Bake up some of these goodies for serving and for your Purim Baskets. A nice change of pace if you want to make something instead of Hamantashen.
From Eileen Goltz, her feature SLICE OF LIFE: Purim Desserts, includes some great Purim desserts:
• Lemon Bars
• Cherry White Chocolate Scones
• Super Easy Banana Blueberry Pie
• Almond Apricot Cheesecake

Some fun, tasty, easy-to-make Purim basket treats:
• Purim Party Mix Snack
• Puppy Chow
• Cookie Crunch Bark
• Praline Almonds
• Southern Spiced Almonds
• Snap–Crackle Popcorn and Nuts

Let's Imbibe!
• Amaretto Pound Cake
• Rum Cake
• Black Russian Cake
• Tiramisu Trifle
• Walders Vanilla Vodka Cake
• Mordechai’s Mitzvah-Tini Martini
• The Queen's Royal Martini
• Heering Latte
• Prosecco, Rosemary and Fizz
• Drunken Donuts Cocktail

Videos:
• How to Shape Hamantashen with Tina Wasserman
• How to Make Homentashen – in Yiddish with English Subtitles
• The Maccabeats – Purim Song

February 13, 2013

KosherEye is delighted to present our 2012 Hanukkah recipe collection. We are including many favorites from our readers and our Chef–Stars, along with some new and delicious selections. May the lights of the Menorah shine brightly in each of our homes; Wishing all a season of miracles. Happy Hanukkah!

Latkes:

Apple Cinnamon Latkes
Bubbes Potato Latkes
Chef Lauras Garden Variety Latke
Chef Lauras Latkes
Dixie Corn Dollars  
Fast, Fabulous Potato Latkes In–A–Hurray
Frittelle di Zucchine – Zucchini Fritters
Guacamole Latkes
Jalapeño Potato Latkes
Latkes – Potato Pancakes
Sour Apple Latkes – Kookoo Sib'e Torsh
Sweet Potato Latkes

The Crispiest Potato Latkes Ever
Vegetable Latkes and Burgers
Wild Rice and Mushroom Latkes

Applesauce:

Apple–Cranberry Ginger Sauce
Apple Pear Sauce
Applesauce (Master Recipe)
Baked Applesauce
Homemade Applesauce
Spiced Applesauce

Other:

Burmuelos
Cupcake Menorah
Doughnut Ice Cream Sandwich
Gateau de Hannouka
Sufganiyot – Doughnuts for Hanukkah
Ukrainian Cheese Blintzes

Feature Articles:

Latke Palooza
Lotsa Latkes
Chanukah Applesauce

Videos:

How to Make Applesauce
How to Make Homemade Potato Latkes and Applesauce
How to Make Sufganiyot

Enjoy the following recipes - and wishing you a "Turkey-licious" meal!

Turkey:

Amish Turkey
Chef Avram's Roast Turkey    
Galilee Turkey Cutlets
Garam Masala Spiced Turkey 
Herb Roasted Turkey Breast
Herb Roasted Turkey and Gravy
KosherEye's Marinated Turkey Chops
KosherEye's Stuffed Turkey Chops
Moroccan Style Turkey Breast
Oven–Roasted Turkey Breast 
Pan Seared Turkey Chops
Roasted Whole Herb Turkey with Mushroom Gravy
Roasted Spatchocked Turkey with Stone Fruit Compote    
Thai Turkey Chowder  
Turkey Schnitzel  
Traditional Holiday Turkey, Using Reynolds Oven Bags

To Carve the Turkey

Stuffing/Dressing

Chestnut Stuffing     
Classic Bread Stuffing
Daphne Oz's Mushroom & Vegetable Stuffing
Easy Cornbread Stuffing 
Gluten Free Wild Rice Stuffing
Herbed Thanksgiving Stuffing (Slow Cooker)
Start with Stuffing Mix
Wild Rice Cranberry Apple Stuffing

Trimmings:

Amazing Apple Rutabaga Soup
Asparagus with Parve Hollandaise Sauce
Autumn Salad
Baked Spinach and Asparagus
Basil and Pecan Sweet Potato Bake
Basmati Rice with Raisins, Cranberries, Almonds & Fresh Herbs
Blueberry Sweet Potato Muffins
Cabbage and Apple Soup
Carrot Dill Soup
Carrot Souffle
Celery Root, Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Cranberry – Tangerine Chutney
Cranberry Relish
Curried Creamd Kale and Pearl Onions
Curry Spiced Sweet Potatoes & Butternut Squash
Fasoulia– Green Beans Sephardic Style
Frisée, Beet and Pecan Salad with Orange Vinaigrette
Hot Curried Fruit (Slow Cooker)
Julie's Best Parve Caesar Dressing
Maple-Pecan Sweet Potatoes
Parsnip and Roasted Garlic Puree
Quick Pan Sauce
Quick & Eay Candied Sweet Potatoes
Butternut Squash Mash with Balsamic Onions
Sage Sweet Potato Mash
Sautéed Greens
Skillet White Cornbread
Stuffed Baked Apples
Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Streusel Topping
Sweet Potato Gratin
Turkey Gumbo
Wheat Berry Salad with Butternut Squash and Dried Cranberries 

Imbibe:

A Trio of Drinks
Margarita for Two
Pomegranate Martini
Oprah's "Legends Lemon Drop Martini"

Desserts:

All American Apple or Peach Pie
Apples and Honey Tart
Apple Chess Pie
Apple Crumb Pie
Apple Custard Pie
Apple Upside Down Cake
Bourbon Chocolate Chip Pie
Chocolate Angel Pie
Classic Pecan Pie
Cranberry Apple Pie with Sweet Walnut Topping
Créme de Menthe Pie
Cranberry Raspberry Sorbet
Family Apple Cake
Fruit Jewel Pie
Kahlua Pecan Pie
Lime Poppy Seed Pound Cake
Maple Bourbon Sweet Potato Pie
Michael Jackson's Sweet Potato Pie
Old Fashioned All–American Apple Pie
Pumpkin Chestnut Roulade
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin–Vanilla Bean Sorbet
Race-Day (Kentucky Derby) Pie
Sweet Potato Pecan Pie
Thanksgiving Maple Pecan Pie
World's Best Apple Cake

Although I love lox–and–bagels as much as the next woman, my Break–the–fast isn’t the traditional smoked salmon feast. My daughter Gillian has a life–threatening allergy to fish (and walnuts) and can’t even be in the same room with it. I can tell you that over the years we’ve had trips to emergency rooms and had to leave weddings and bar mitzvahs on account of it.

It’s no problem as far as the cooking goes though. Kosher cooks have always been creative, adapting recipes to the dietary laws. It’s exactly the same when someone in your family has an allergy. You work around the limits, meet the challenge, and make something delicious to eat.

Fortunately our Break-the-fast group includes the same families every year; good friends from long ago. We’ve watched each others’ children grow, go off to college, marry and start families of their own. We comforted each other during hard times and mourned together when parents died. We all feel lucky to have each other and celebrate a new year together.

Every family brings some food to share. They all understand that their dishes will be dairy; vegetarian and also be fish and walnut–free. What’s really important is not what we eat, but that we share this special time together.

With so many people to feed, dinner is always buffet style, lap fare that needs little in the way of utensils. Both hot and cool dishes, all made ahead of course.

Although we’ve changed the menu over the years, by this time there are several constants, the by–now–expected dishes that we all look forward to. Hummus and Zimsterne cookies to give everyone a first nibble before the real meal.

Spinach Pie too, which I make ahead, freeze and pop into the oven before everyone arrives, and Mujadarah, a bulgur wheat casserole with tons of caramelized onions on top (there’s a recipe for both in my book, Hip Kosher). And the meal just wouldn’t be right without my friend Susan’s fabulous kugel.

I always make several salads too. Not only for variety but also to add some color. And the contrast of hot dishes and cool ones is very satisfying. Beet salad is usually a must because all my children like it and because beets are so sweet, in keeping with celebrating the new year. There’s also at least one whole grain salad made with barley, farro, buckwheat, quinoa, oat groats or brown rice. The grains are all made more or less the same way: cook until tender and fluffy, add some cooked vegetables and pour in a vinaigrette dressing.

Of course, I make an enormous challah. And Grand Finale cookies (also from Hip Kosher), even though another friend brings more desserts.

My mother always used to say -- in Yiddish -- “the wheel keeps turning.” I think about this every year as I see the changing face of friends and family as time goes by. Last year, Susan’s mother passed away. This year, we may be welcoming Gillian’s new baby, due in October, but who knows!? We pass on our tradition of getting together to celebrate, to be thankful for life, and to enjoy our feast and each other.

Have a sweet new year everyone, and may you have an easy fast.

About the Author

Ronnie Fein is a cookbook author, food journalist, cooking teacher, and one-time talk show host. She is the founder of the Ronnie Fein School of Creative Cooking in Stamford, Connecticut and the author of Hip Kosher: 175 Easy-to-Prepare Recipes for Today's Kosher Cooks (Da Capo Press). She has a lot to say about food and shares her food memories, recipes, and food related thoughts on her blog, Kitchen Vignettes. Ronnie lives in Stamford with her husband and has two married daughters and four grandchildren.

We are sharing several of our favorite cheesecake and ice cream dessert recipes for Shavuos. Some are fast, some are easy and all are delicious! 

Cheesecake
Almond–Apricot Cheesecake 
Cafe Latte Cheesecake
Caramel–Apple Cheesecake
Dulce de Leche No-bake Cheesecake 
Goat Cheese Cheesecake
Grandma's German Cheesecake 
Lemon Soufflé Cheesecake with Blueberry Topping
Lindy's Original New York Cheesecake      
Mini Cheesecakes
Myzithra Cheesecake – Greek
Raspberry Topped Lemon Cheesecake
Ricotta Cheesecake            
Strawberry and Prosecco Tarimisu
Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake
Tarte au Fromage Blanc – French Cheesecake 
Ultimate Deluxe Cheesecake
White Chocolate and Lime Cheesecake Bars
World's Easiest Cheesecake Pie  
Yogurt Cheesecake

Spinach Herb Cheesecake (savory)

Ice Cream Desserts
Easy Grasshopper Ice Cream Pie 
Ice Cream Cone Torte 
Pepperrmint Brownie Ice Cream Sandwiches 
Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Fudge Ice Cream Pie
Simple Ice Cream Cake 

Toppings
Dulce de Leche 
Homemade Chocolate Magic Sauce
Hot Fudge Ice Cream Sauce

* Limited Edition Lithograph on archival acid-free paper, hand-signed and numbered. It is boxed for special gift giving, gift card included upon request. Unframed. To order email them

Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, by Maurycy Gottlieb (1878)

There are holiday meals when tradition is the pattern and for us, the meal served for Break Fast is one of them. We are comfortable with serving practically the same traditional foods year after year. We look forward to breaking the fast with a tall glass of cold orange juice, assorted bagels, cream cheese, nova, egg salad, sliced tomatoes, kugel and steaming hot coffee. Maybe a few small sweets but that isn't always necessary.

Call us boring but who cares – our Break Fast menu is our comfort food, and we look forward to it after the beautiful, moving Neilah service.

We are sharing some of our kugel recipes – there is something here for everyone.

For those of our KosherEye Friends who fast, we wish you a meaningful and easy fast and, to everyone, a wonderful New Year.

1. Florentine Noodle Kugel
2. Lukschen Kugel Milchig
3. No–Noodle Apple Kugel
4. No–Boil Noodle Kugel
5. Moms Fruit Noodle Kugel
6. Sessie's Cherry Noodle Kugel
7. Sweet Noodle Kugel
8. Upside Down Noodle Kugel

Each year, in the midst of the “lazy, hazy” days of summer, Jews worldwide remember and pause some daily activities for a three week period. The final nine days of this three week period, which are the first nine days of the month of Av, are observed with even more intensive remembrances. During this period, Jews mourn both the loss of the Holy Temples in Jerusalem and exile from our holy land.

During this final nine day period most observant Jews do not participate in recreational summer activities such as swimming, concerts, weddings etc. Additionally, many refrain from eating meat and drinking wine except on Shabbos.

KosherEye presents several delicious dishes, plus a divine dessert, to enjoy during these meatless days.

•  Betty's Beet Borscht
•  Carrot Dill Soup
•  Creamy Butternut Squash Soup
•  Creamy Chilled Cucumber Dill Soup
•  Beet and Fresh Pear Salad
•  California Avocado Mille Feuille Salad
•  Quinoa Tabouli Salad
•  Strawberry Mango Salad
•  Sushi Salad
•  Rigatoni Pasta Pie
•  Easy Eggplant Parmesan Casserole
•  Tomato Cheese Casserole
•  Broiled Red Snapper w/Lemon–Asparagus
•  Herbed Tilapia in Lemon Butter Sauce
•  Herb Roasted Salmon
•  Salmon Corn Cakes
•  Salmon with French's Fried Onions
•  Leah Adler's Pistachio Pasta
•  Tuna Casserole
•  Easy Eggplant Parmesan Casserole
•  No–Boil Lasagna
•  Chobani Spinach Quiche
•  "Crabmeat" Quiche
•  Huevo Rancheros
•  Egg Frittata with Potatoes and Peppers
•  Vegetable Frittata
•  Ice Cream Cone Torte

July 17, 2012

10 Drinks and 10 Appetizers
to Celebrate the Fourth of July

Along with those grilled burgers, hot dogs and steaks, salute the USA with these very special drinks.

KosherEye Toasts America, From Sea to Shining Sea.

•  America Loves Old-Fashioned Lemonade
•  Uncle Sam’s Watermelon and Rum Slushie
•  Red, White and Blueberry Freeze
•  4th of July Holiday Punch
 •  Piña Colada – Fit for a President!
•  Patriotic Party Sangria
•  Salute to America Martini

•  3–Layer Tex–Mex Dip
•  Fried Pickles
•  Olive Dip
•  Smoked Tuna Dip
•  Mom's Caponata
•  Mango Salsa with Corn Chips
•  Cold Kosher Faux "Crab" Dip
•  Chickpea and White Bean Hummos
•  Guacamole Auténtico
•  Fruit Soup in a Cup

July 3, 2012