The Scone of Stone was stolen! It was stolen from the most unexpected and the best guarded place, The Dwarf Bread Museum. Of course, dwarf breads were substantially different from our breads; that is, different in substance. In fact, they included gravel as one of the main ingredients. According to the late Sir Terry Pratchett,…
Tag: Blueberries
Patience to Wait for Blueberry Pie
This recipe is created for my favorite purple person, an amazing, quirky, and funny blogofriend Melinda of http://www.purpleslobinrecovery.com. I promised her a few months ago to create a purple cake. A while later, I made a purple pie and photographed it (before it was gobbled up!), getting ready to post the recipe. Unfortunately, it took…
When Two Plusses Equal a Minus
A while ago, we had a chance to visit with my cousin and his wife in New Jersey and take them to dinner at a lovely Kosher Italian restaurant. Imagine my surprise, when my cousin Leo, normally a healthy eater with a robust appetite, had only a few leaves of lettuce (no dressing), and a…
Cranberry Pizza for Thanksgiving
Happy National Cranberry Day, Beautiful People (https://foodimentary.com/november-holidays)! Dear Beautiful People, I am cheating! I don’t have a step-by-step set of photographs of this crazy creation because I’ll assemble it tomorrow, right before serving. All I have is my cranberry sauce, ready for tomorrow. However, I promised a recipe for Cranberry Pizza, so here it…
Patriotic Fruity Pizza
Happy Independence Day, Beautiful People! I’ll take independence any day; to quote Janis Joplin, Here is a fun patriotic dessert for you, offered by https://www.womansday.com/food-recipes. INGREDIENTS Flour, for the parchment 1 (16-oz.) package refrigerated sugar cookie dough 2 tbsp. Strawberry jam 2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice 1 lb. strawberries, hulled and cut into pieces 1 1/2 c. blueberries 1 (8-oz.) package…
Kings, Coconuts, and Blueberry Muffins
I was all set to write a brand new post to celebrate a major benchmark – 2000 followers, when I found out from https://foodimentary.com that today is a National Muffin Day. I am repeating a delicious and healthy muffin recipe, and I promise, Beautiful People, to have a proper celebration tomorrow: via Unfair Trade: Muffins for…
How Stanislavsky Ate the Grandmother
Technically, these are also retchene latkes, even though they don’t look or taste anything like my grandmother’s stellar creations. What makes them different is a ton of plump juicy HUGE blueberries which we obviously did not have in Russia in December. Enjoy this healthy treat, Beautiful People, and don’t forget, Kool Kosher Kitchen e-book is…
Cranberry Pizza for Thanksgiving
Happy National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day, Beautiful People! There are definitely no anchovies on this one, but only fruit and berries, and some non-dairy whipped cream. You can use is as a fruit salad or a dessert, but no matter at which point you serve it, you will surprise your Thanksgiving guests with Cranberry…
The Scone of Stone
The Scone of Stone was stolen! It was stolen from the most unexpected and the best guarded place, The Dwarf Bread Museum. Of course, dwarf breads were substantially different from our breads; that is, different in substance. In fact, they included gravel as one of the main ingredients. According to the late Sir Terry Pratchett,…
Immersion Pie Featuring Freud, Elephants, Polar Bears, and Noah’s Ark
This story was shared by Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson, a fantastic public speaker with a great sense of humor. A renowned psychologist was giving a lecture on his theory of the flood. According to him, a myth about the flood of catastrophic magnitude has been present in every culture and religion in the world. He postulated…
Unfair Trade: Muffins for Tobacco
Are muffins bread? Are they cakes? Are they supposed to be eaten for breakfast, lunch, snack, dessert, or all of the above? Are muffins really cupcakes without frosting? Thomas Jefferson thought so, and called muffins “a luxury to us.” Today, you can get a recipe for Monticello Muffins at http://www.monticello.org. But those are not American…
Gambling for Education and Retchene Latkes
To continue with the story of Chanukkah and latkes, Judea was eventually captured by the Romans. Some of the Roman rulers could care less about various religions of the occupied territories, or provinces, as long as the taxes were collected regularly and accurately. Some others, however, persecuted Jews relentlessly; Emperor Hadrian even earned the nickname…
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