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Yearly Archives: 2016

To all my friends and readers who have offered their condolences on the passing of my wonderful mother in November and my dear father in law earlier this month I want to say how much I have appreciated all the cards and emails. While I had to put aside my […]

THANK YOU

December 18, 2016 in Recipes / Uncategorized by Konfidentially Kosher

So there I was, pulling stuff out of my pantry in a crazed moment of what am I going to make for shabbos that is not the same old rice or potatoes and lo and behold, I discovered an open box of barley I had conveniently misplaced behind the other […]

BARLEY MAGIC

October 31, 2016 in dinner / Recipes / Salad by Konfidentially Kosher

Exacty what is a candy apple and where did it come from you ask? Well, surprisingly, Newark, New Jersey is the birth place and the year was 1908. William Kolk, a confectioner was experimenting with red cinnamon candy for Christmas and he dipped some apples into the leftover mixture. […]

WHERE DO CANDY APPLES COME FROM?

October 27, 2016 in DESSERT / Recipes tagged apple / candy / caramel by Konfidentially Kosher

I am a soup person. I can eat if for lunch, dinner, before dinner, as a snack or just because I’m cold and not in the mood for hot cocoa or tea. While the big pot of bubbling, simmering for a couple of hours and filling the house with aroma […]

SOUPER POTATO SOUPS

October 22, 2016 in Recipes / SOUP tagged kosher / potato / soup by Konfidentially Kosher

I’ve been dealing with an illness in my family that has me devoting 24/7 of my energy into making sure that I’m available to everyone but myself. So in keeping with the philosophy that sell care is necessary before you can care for others the one thing I do for […]

Kosher Comfort Foods for Everyone

October 16, 2016 in Recipes tagged comfort food / kosher / yeast by Konfidentially Kosher

As the clock tick tocks toward the high holidays everyone who’s ever had to plan what seems like 3 thousand yontif meals knows that the main dish is most likely gonna be a brisket, chicken and/or turkey. It’s the first course and desserts that tend to send us all into […]

YONTIF APPLE-TEASERS

September 18, 2016 in Appitizer tagged appitizer / apples / cooking / recipes / rosh hashanna / yontif by Konfidentially Kosher

I am so done calling Shavuot the cheesecake holiday. Just because we all kinda defaulted to making cheesecake for dessert on this dairy only holiday is no reason to continue the tradition. Seriously, can’t we all agree that there’s more interesting dairy desserts than just cheesecake and ice cream. I’m […]

SHAVUOT CANNOLI RECIPES, SIMPLE & DELICIOUS

May 22, 2016 in DESSERT / Holiday by Konfidentially Kosher

When it comes to cooking I typically don’t include ingredients that have “parts” that are mildly toxic. However, when it comes to rhubarb, I make an exception. Yes, the leaves of the rhubarb plant are mildly poisonous so DON’T EAT THEM. The stalks of the plant, on the other hand […]

SPRING RHUBARB RECIPES RIGHT NOW!

May 22, 2016 in DESSERT / dinner by Konfidentially Kosher

Every Memorial Day the menu dilemma isn’t what we’ll be serving as the main course (burgers rule!) but rather what side dishes will grace the picnic table. While I’m all for the new and different I tend to be a purist when burgers are being served so potato salad is […]

POTATO SALAD RECIPE BONANZA

May 15, 2016 in Salad tagged mayonnaise / memorial day / potato salad by Konfidentially Kosher

So Mother’s Day got here just after we finished the food fest of Pesach and while we’ve all had the opportunity to gorge ourselves on chometz we’re probably still shopping for those pantry items we threw away in our haste to be chametz. I felt decadent today, and decided that […]

DUTCH PANCAKES FOR DINNER

May 8, 2016 in BREAKFAST / dinner by Konfidentially Kosher