There are millions of latke recipes for Chanukah, each with its own flavor twists. I like to include spices to make my recipes unique. The addition of curry powder and…
Curried Spaghetti Squash Latkes
Black Pepper Honey Fried Carrots
The miracle of Chanukah is alive in the air fryer, where a magical tiny amount of oil turns any vegetable or latke into a crispy fried treat. These carrots are…
Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup
Beet borscht is undoubtedly the most popular sweet and-sour soup within the Ashkenazi soup canon. But this cabbage-based soup, called krautsuppe in German, is just as delicious. It is traditionally…
Coconut Oil Banana Bread
The coconut oil in this banana bread creates a soft, moist loaf that is full of banana flavor with a hint of coconut. Nothing like some tropical flavors to get…
Earl Grey and Chocolate Sufganiyot
As a doughnut-crazed Levine, over the years I’ve scoured the nation in search of the most unconventional and artisanal doughnuts (Sufganiyot 2.0, if you will): Voodoo Donuts and The Salty…
Moroccan Chicken
Many Jewish families in the US are familiar with the traditional Eastern Europe dishes of brisket, matzah ball soup, gefilte fish and chopped liver. I do prepare many of these…
Roasted Tzimmes
I developed this recipe for Beaver Creek WinterFest. We were serving buffalo, and I remembered the first time I had had tzimmes at a restaurant in DC years before. It…
Crispy Brussels Sprouts with Garlic Aioli and Sicilian Hot Sauce
I’ve always associated brussels sprouts with Passover. My mother would roast them every year, and they would usually sit untouched on the table for most of the night (the tiny…
Hungarian Jewish Flódni Cake
On a visit to Hungary last summer, I discovered flódni, a traditional cake of Jewish Budapest. The Jewish community preserved the flódni tradition, which now has a wider audience in…
Ellen’s Falafel with Pickled Vegetables
A plant-based dish—because in the biblical times they ate a mostly (80-percent) plant-based diet! We love this dish because it has all the foods we learned how to make the local way…
