Do you remember that trip I took to New York earlier this year? The chicken rumaki I tasted at NY’s Wolf and Lamb have been front of mind since I got home, and I finally made a small batch to serve as an appetizer. Rumaki are traditionally a faux-Polynesian dish made from chicken livers with water chestnuts wrapped in bacon and fried. My kosher rumaki are a little different but [...]
23 May, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 7 Comments
Since I shared my Lamb Wellington in January, I have been thinking of the perfect way to use this KOL Foods Kishke and although I came up with the idea of making kishke-croutons a while ago, I didn’t want the recipe to stop there. It wasn’t until the kishke-croutons were toasting in the oven that I decided to make a tomato-basil salad. This dish is inspired by the Tomato Panzanella [...]
20 May, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 8 Comments
The travel season has just begun in our home. My wife just got back from a weekend in NY and the coming months will see us visiting Nebraska, California, Texas and Washington for a mix of business and pleasure. It’s a weekend free of travel or activities, dedicated to our favorite Mom. Our annual mother’s day picnic always has us wishing we spent more time at local parks and hiking [...]
17 May, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 10 Comments
The Jewish festival of Shavuot (festival of weeks) comes around seven weeks after passover. In Israel, I always felt like this one-day holiday was lost in the blink of an eye and in the US the two-day celebration seems to fall short of the prep and attention other major holidays get. Shavuot is unique in that it’s the one time that holiday classics are dairy dishes like cheesecake and blintzes, not fun [...]
13 May, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 17 Comments
From time to time I invite other food writers to share something from their kitchen with you. Often the post will highlight a recipe that I have needed guidance on or a dish I have never cooked myself. Today’s recipe is from a foodie friend of mine, Hindy who writes at Confident Cook, Hesitant Baker. Like Hindy, I hesitate to bake but love to experiment in the kitchen and develop new recipes [...]
9 May, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 8 Comments
For years, I didn’t eat lettuce. Nor would I touch cinnamon or cilantro. I still don’t eat bananas, yet all of these flavors are on our three year old’s top ten list. We can hardly get a lettuce from the store to the fridge without him asking for a leaf or two. I’m not sure how or when I started to eat lettuce, but I am pretty sure my wife’s [...]
6 May, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 89 Comments
In making chili con carne this week, I took a look at the recipe I posted when I was just three months into writing This American Bite. I read the recipe and I realized how much I have grown as a food writer and a cook. Beside for the fact that the original recipe is long and the photograph is terrible, we have cut some of the ingredients from our [...]
2 May, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 11 Comments
We all have those “what’s for dinner?” nights when we open the almost-bare fridge, make a mental note to do groceries after work the next day. On closing the door, we still have no idea what to make for dinner. We might go through this three or four times, hoping that a miraculous food elf will stock the fridge with the ingredients needed for a delicious dinner if we just [...]
29 April, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 11 Comments
There are dozens of recipes in the book Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi that I want to make. Each and every page of that book inspires me to get cooking and the photography in this title brings both food and Israeli culture alive. Preserved lemons are front of mind as I turn the pages. They are not something I have ever made but have wanted to for a long [...]
25 April, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 15 Comments
I have a childhood memory of seeing stuffed zucchini (or courgette as it was called back there) on TV and being enamoured by the dish. Why this image has stayed with me for so many years is a mystery. Perhaps more mysterious is the fact I have never attempted to stuff zucchini squash, acorn, butternut or any or any other type of squash. My wife’s stuffed cabbage (coming soon) are [...]
22 April, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 11 Comments
The last time I cooked with and wrote about KOL Foods I made a lamb wellington which proved to be very popular with our dinner guests and everyone that read the post. The dish was a lot of fun to prepare and the same is true about this stuffed turkey breast. Turkey breast often has the reputation for being the dry and flavorless, left to snack on when nursing that post-Thanksgiving [...]
18 April, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 19 Comments
A good shawarma has the potential to be the best thing you will ever eat but a bad shawarma recipe will send you running to the hills. Perfecting shawarma is an art that many of Jerusalem’s street vendors haven’t quite mastered. The Israeli shawarma, similar to the Greek gyro, Turkish doner kebab and the Armenian tarna, is prepared on a vertical roasting spit and can be prepared from lamb, beef or turkey. Often you’ll [...]
15 April, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 21 Comments
The Kosher Cooking Carnival is hosted by a different kosher food writer each month and this is the third time I am hosting the round up on my site. The carnival is arranged by Batya of Shiloh Musings and many of the contributing foodies also live in Israel. All the recipes are kosher and will often reflect seasonal holidays or celebrations. With that being so, some of the recipes might be [...]
11 April, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 10 Comments
Every time I step into The Milky Way in Los Angeles’s Pico Robertson neighborhood, I feel like I have entered a vacuum of tranquility. The hustle and bustle of Los Angeles stays outside as the owner, Leah Adler, welcomes each and every guest. Leah, a proud Jewish mother, has tastefully decorated the restaurant with movie memorabilia and posters, a subtle reminder to all that her son is the Hollywood mastermind, [...]
8 April, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 14 Comments
Back in December Lottie and Doof introduced me to a whole new world of Roast Chicken. I was enamored by the photos of the Pimentón Roasted Chicken and when I made the dish at home I was impressed that this high-temperature method of roasting chicken created a crisp and flavorful bite that is moist and delicious. The recipe wasn’t the only thing I admired, I became an instant fan of the Falcon [...]
3 April, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 186 Comments
I am a little obsessed with my brand new Falcon Enamel cookware. Everything I cook in this bake set has an authentic farm-to-table feel about it that can only come from cook ware made with love. As a tribute to Falcon, shipped from London to my home in America’s Mid-West, I decided to share a traditional British dish with you today, Shepard’s pie. Thanks to the kind people at Falcon, [...]
28 March, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 10 Comments
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