A Few Recipes for Rosh Hashanna

The Jewish New Year has crept up on me this year! All of a sudden it is upon us & i am now just going to think about a menu! Even if you do not celebrate the Jewish New Year, these recipes are delicious & you should give them a try! Here are some of the recipes I will make this year

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Kobe Marinade for Chicken on the BBQ

This is absolutely one of our favorite marinades for chicken pieces when we are going to BBQ chicken. We BBQ chicken a lot in the summer & I like a BBQ sauce on the chicken but sometimes, I just want to switch it up a bit!

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The Holiday of Shavout is this weekend!

We eat dairy on Shavout so here are a few dairy recipes and some desserts!

Cottage Cheese Noodle Kugel

Cottage Cheese Noodle Kugel is a delicious comforting dish! There are a few foods I like to have in my freezer ready to eat! I like to have Chicken Soup & this Cottage Cheese Noodle Kugel in the freezer so that we can have some anytime we want! This dish is dense with noodles… the…

Noodles & Cottage Cheese

Cottage Cheese is having a ‘day’ on social media lately! We have been eating Noodles & Cottage Cheese forever!! Mac & Cheese needs to step aside while you all try this comforting delicious pasta dish! Uncomplicated to make yet one of the best things you can eat! Noodles & Cottage Cheese is a meal that…

Dasha’s Cottage Cheese Pie

An old family recipe for a cottage cheese ‘pie’ baked in a square pan…so not really a ‘pie’ but not a square either! This recipe has a cake like bottom, cottage cheese filling & cake like top… slightly sweet but not too much sugar…baked to a golden brown. But it isn’t really a cake either!…

Easy Baked Mac & Cheese

I love baked Mac & Cheese but I do not always like the fuss of making a cheese sauce so when I saw this recipe I was so excited to try it! The recipe is by Melissa Clark and I saw it on The New York Times FROM THE PANTRY …. I love my Velveeta…

Blueberry Labneh Cheesecake

I used homemade Labneh in a cheesecake instead of cream cheese & it was delicious! Replacing the cream cheese in the cheesecake worked out really well. I worked out the calories on an online site for the same recipe with cream cheese & then using the Labneh…. there was a big difference…the one with the…

Cheesecake….. this one is light & fluffy!

So many cheesecake recipes… I won’t be trying them all :)) but this recipe looked so delicious I had to make it! The next one I am going to try .. .I am going to replace the cream cheese with homemade Labneh… if it works I will blog it! The recipe is from The Nosher…

Kraft No-Bake Cool Whip Cheesecake

This was just so quick & easy. Sometimes we just need this!!!Delicious simple dessert! I was doing a Zoom cooking demo for some seniors and thought they might like this dessert. It is just so simple! The crust is a pre-made graham crust! I have never bought one before but it is really good. Tehn…

Classic Norene Cheesecake

My daughter Jacki LOVES this cheesecake…my friend Marcia makes it & always tries to save Jacki a piece, which isn’t easy since everyone loves it so much! The recipe is from NORENE GILLETZ, THE PLEASURES OF YOUR PROCESSOR… EASY CHEESE CAKE. The cheesecake is made with basic ingredients which is great! Just a delicious vanilla…

Sprinkle Cheesecake

This is a no bake cheesecake recipe! Comes together quickly & is really pretty! The recipe is from the web site The Nosher No-Bake Funfetti Cheesecake Recipe It is really delicious. It was so good we did not want to eat it all so Murray took it the office ….and everyone could enjoy it! The…

Cottage Cheese Muffins

I love these cottage cheese muffins. The recipe is from over 40 years ago! Our family has been making them forever! I think the original recipe was given to my mom by a friend of hers. Sometimes I would play mahjong with my mom’s group & her friend  would make the Cottage Cheese Muffins to eat at the game. I always looked forward to them & playing with this group of lovely ladies.  Her name was Ronnie & I think of her fondly whenever I make these Cottage Cheese Muffins 

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Pomegranate Chicken

I have been wanting to make this Pomegranate Chicken for a very long time! I saw this recipe for the first time in 2015 on  THE NOSHER , myjewishlearning.com! That is a long time to want to make something!

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Cod & Spinach Casserole

This Cod & Spinach Casserole is just delicious! It is very easy to put together & does not take long to cook either! I have made this recipe so often! It is delicious & really quick. If I am having a busy day this is a perfect dinner! Serve with some rice if you want!

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Chicken Adobo

I lived in Yellowknife ,NWT for 6 years after Murray & I got married.  While I lived there I learned a lot about cooking and baking from my friends, I was a young bride and mother and needed help!

A friend of my MIL, who is from the Philippines,  gave me this recipe for Chicken Adobo which is the national dish of the Philippines. I called her up last night to ask if I could post this recipe and she said sure but not to post her name! I have been making this for years as well as the rest of my husband’s family. It takes a couple of hours to cook but the prep is super simple.

I will post the recipe as she gave it to me. Any questions just ask!

 Ingredients 

 1 regular size chicken (cut into serving pieces)

1/2 cup white vinegar

1/2 cup soy sauce *** she recommends using China Lily but I use whatever I have on hand

1 cup water

6 cloves of garlic, crushed

1 small onion, chopped

salt to taste (1/2 tsp)

black pepper

Method 

  1. Place chicken in a medium size pan, put in salt & pepper.
  2. Add the vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, onions & water. Mix  throughly.
  3. Cover the pot and cook over medium heat until it starts to boil. Do not uncover it until it starts to boil! Stir it once in a while to ensure even cooking.
  4. Simmer until chicken meat is tender and liquid has practically evaporated and meat is brown. If this starts to boil too hard, turn the heat down a bit.. you want a simmer hot enough to cook the chicken but not to boil all the liquid away.
  5. Serve hot with rice

 *** If the sauce tastes too vinegery add 1/2 tsp of sugar, stir , taste and continue to add a bit more sugar at a time as needed to your taste. The sauce should still taste of vinegar and not sweet but you don’t want it to have too strong a vinegar taste.

 NOTE: after coming to a boil it took approx 1 1/2 hours to be finished.

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Korean Style Ground Beef Bowl

There are so many recipes for ground beef and many on this blog but when I saw this recipe for Korean Style Ground Beef I had to make it! A delicious recipe & a very quick dinner.

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