This American Bite

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]