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
In February 2013 I flew to New York for 50 hours to attend the Kosher Food and Wine Experience. As I made friends and mingled with foodies, there are two questions I was asked over and over again. First, “isn’t that where Kosher on a Budget is from?” Second, “why Kansas?”. After two years in this fine city, I answered that question my my recent Times of Israel Op-Ed. In short, these [...]
14 March, 2013 // By : Yosef Silver // 12 Comments
Some nights, I know exactly what I plan to make for dinner. The menu was planned, the groceries are in the pantry and it’s a done deal. Other nights, like tonight, I leave the office, wondering what on earth I can pull from the fridge and put on the table. Some of those unplanned dinners, become unplanned blog posts, and that is just one reason that I always keep my [...]
31 October, 2012 // By : Yosef Silver // 8 Comments
On Shabbat (Saturday) afternoon, we welcomed our baby girl in to our lives making us a family of four. My wife did an outstanding job, listening to her body and remaining in control throughout labor, and to quote her, she had “the perfect birth”. A few weeks ago my wife shared her first birth story. This time around the experience was completely different, positive in every way and I want to [...]
3 September, 2012 // By : Yosef Silver // 7 Comments
It’s true, I skipped a week, I’m sorry. In the midst of the preparing for our son’s second birthday I failed to blog last week. I have two wonderful guest posts lined up for you (including a long-promised Vegan Slow Cooker Giveaway) but after my hiatus, I raided the fridge last night to cook for you, and what a joy it was. In less than two hours I made strawberry [...]
12 March, 2012 // By : Yosef Silver // 1 Comment
Congratulations to Janet and Gina, winners of my Povitica giveaway! Thank you all for your entries! Next month I’ll be giving away a copy of The Vegan Slow Cooker. Oat Soup sounds strange to me and I can not take credit for this recipe, but while my mother visited a few months ago, we politely agreed to allow her to make this soup for dinner one night. I am glad [...]
10 January, 2012 // By : Yosef Silver // 4 Comments
Thursday night is usually a cooking marathon. We entertain six to eight people most weekends and spend much of the week thinking of menus, flavor combinations and dishes to share with our guests. Some of you will reading this opening line will be tired at the thought of a weekly dinner party. For us, it’s a way of life. We welcome Shabbat (the sabbath) around the dinner table every Friday [...]
2 January, 2012 // By : Yosef Silver // No Comments
The Godmother of my firstborn is a wonderful young lady. She fed us when hungry, given us a bed to sleep in when plans changed and we had no place to go, celebrated during the good, offered moral support during the rough, discovered the death of our pet hamster, helped raise our dog and helped deliver our son. What more could you ask for than a friend like this? Well, [...]
7 December, 2011 // By : Yosef Silver // 5 Comments
I’m not much of a fan of summer. I don’t sleep well, I sweat, I dehydrate, and my electricity bills are through the roof from running AC. We are raised to look forward to summer, school’s out and trips are planned, but if your career is not that of an educator, once you’ve graduated, summer is just like winter, spring or fall, except for hikes in air-fare and gas prices. [...]
14 November, 2011 // By : Yosef Silver // No Comments
One night in April I sat down in front of the TV with a can of beer and bag of chips fooling myself into thinking that was dinner. A light went on in my mind and I realized it was time to change. The next day, I walked in to Weight Watchers and met Ann.
10 November, 2011 // By : Yosef Silver // 4 Comments
Sunday didn’t really go quite a planned. We didn’t learn how to can our own produce at the farm. We didn’t make it to the Truman Museum or Clinton’s Soda Factory in Independence, MO. We did not even make it to a movie. Stomach flu kept my wife in bed and at 8.00 am I found myself in Whole Foods buying organic, local produce so I could get fresh chicken soup [...]
23 October, 2011 // By : Yosef Silver // 2 Comments
Growing up in England, fish was served in one of two ways – succulent cod fillets in a warm, crispy beer batter, wrapped in newspaper with a side of crispy chips (fries) and mushy peas. The second was gefilte-fish re-heated on a Friday night with watery beet-horseradish sauce. Needless to say, I am not much of a fish eater, and I am certainly a stranger to sea-food. Cod has become [...]
26 September, 2011 // By : Yosef Silver // 3 Comments
The radish is a strange vegetable. Crunchy and bitter when raw, soft and sweet when baked. A great source of vitamin B6, and the one ingredient I am never sure of. For a long time, I have had a childish dislike for this miniature vegetable but recently we’ve started to see eye to eye.
19 September, 2011 // By : Yosef Silver // 1 Comment
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