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When your celebrating Pesach one thing is certain, there will be eggs involved. Some will get broken, others will be incorporated into myriads of “family favorite” recipes and others, those special few that are chosen, will be hard cooked. According to the American Egg Board, the terms “hard-boiled” is a […]

IF IT’S PASSOVER THERE WILL BE EGGS

March 26, 2021 in Appitizer / Recipes by Konfidentially Kosher

The great food debate during Pesach is most often gerbruck or non gerbruck (no matzo except for Seder or lotsa matza that can be combined with a liquid or other ingredients) but for the past several years the big questions are about quinoa. There has been a bit of controversy […]

QUINOA AND PASSOVER

March 12, 2021 in Appitizer / Recipes / Salad by Konfidentially Kosher

I’m starting to clean the fridge in my first pre Pesach purge and needed to figure out what to do with the some of the stuff that got pushed to the back that I forgot existed since probably last Passover I discovered 4 cans of beer left over from either […]

PRE PASSOVER BEER CHALLENGE

March 8, 2021 in Appitizer / dinner / Recipes by Konfidentially Kosher

So how much food is too much to serve on Friday night for Shabbos dinner? Do we really need to have soup, salad, and an appetizer along with main and side dishes and dessert for a meal when the then next meal we have will be equally as filling, calorie […]

Healthy Twist on Friday Night Dinners

February 19, 2021 in Appitizer / Recipes / SOUP by Konfidentially Kosher

Ok, so you go to that fancy restaurant for a “special meal” (in a past life and hopefully in a not-too-distant future) you may have been served something called an Amuse Bouche (to sound “French” authentic you pronounce it “amuze boosh”). You didn’t order it, it just showed up as […]

WHAT THE HECK IS AN AMUSE BOUCHE AND HOW DO ...

January 25, 2021 in Appitizer / Recipes by Konfidentially Kosher

In the movie version of my life, when asked which way I prefer my pepper served, my inner James Bond-ish answer isn’t the “shaken not stirred” Sean Connery quip but rather I’ll have the cracked not ground bon mot. Since, Hollywood hasn’t been knocking for my words of wisdom, I’ll […]

POP UP THE FLAVOR: ADD GROUND PEPPER

January 24, 2021 in Appitizer / POULTRY / Recipes by Konfidentially Kosher

O K, sports fans, it’s the end of the first quarter, the bases are loaded, one more goal and it’s a hat trick. The quarterback takes the snap. He runs down the court, the clock is ticking………he shoots, he scores, and — Hey, ref, he was fouled! In my dyslexic […]

DIPS AND FOOTBALL, A WINNING COMBINATION

January 18, 2021 in Appitizer / Recipes by Konfidentially Kosher

I try to do fish dinners every week. It’s a healthy alternative to meat and chicken and while fresh salmon, tilapia and trout are all on my recipe list I make it a point to use smoked fish as often as I can. Smoked fish is not just a dish, […]

Smoked Fish: Not Just For Brunch Anymore

January 3, 2021 in Appitizer / FISH / Recipes by Konfidentially Kosher

With the end of the year looming large I find I have several days of unscheduled time on my hands and nothing but the diabetes inducing holiday “chick flick” movies on the tube. Nothing is open because of “plague” and of course those lucky souls trapped ooops I mean quarantining […]

Recipe Boredom? Try Making These Cheesy “Gourmet-ish” Snacks

December 23, 2020 in Appitizer / Recipes by Konfidentially Kosher

I asked my son what he thought about Hasselbacks and his response was, “that hairy old guy from the Bay Watch Movie?????” “No thanks, pass, that movie was terrible and wasn’t he in a really woman objectifying TV series a million years ago”. Seriously, I believe I gave birth to […]

Hasselback The Potato, Not the Actor……

December 20, 2020 in Appitizer / Recipes / VEGETABLE by Konfidentially Kosher