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Hanukkah Cocktail Recipe — The Liquid Latke
There are two versions of this holiday-themed, milk-based cocktail. The first is faster, and the milk stays white. The second takes time, because the milk is put through a “clarification” process that turns it completely clear. Combine this mini miracle with ingredients that bring latkes to mind and you have the perfect Hanukkah-party potable. Version…
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Recipes Pro Tips For Creating A Miraculous Hanukkah Cocktail
When challenged with the task, Chaim Dauermann, bar manager of The Up & Up in Greenwich Village, devised a drink that sounds harder to make than it is. A take on a classic “milk punch,” the milk undergoes a seemingly miraculous transformation from the white stuff you pour over cereal to a perfectly clear concoction…
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Recipes Taco Night Made More Healthful — And Just As Easy And Fun
Tacos are fun for the whole family. Season your filling with modern and healthy ingredients. Most taco seasonings have way too much salt and some have chemicals (we’re talking to you, taco spice envelope). We like a good quality chili powder (with just cumin and dried chiles) or chipotle powder (ground and dried smoked chiles…
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Recipes One-Pot Cauliflower Mac and Cheese
This recipe is here to replace that box with the packet of orange powder. Whether you serve it only for emergencies or regularly, it is time to change up your source of orange. This one-pot recipe can be whipped up with pantry and freezer staples, using only one pot and no strainer — and it’s…
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Recipes Make Your Own Everything Spice For An Easy One-Pan Chicken Dinner
Spiced chicken does double time as either a schnitzel or nuggets. We made this a complete dinner kit on a sheet pan so you can have dinner on the table with no fuss and no muss. If you really prefer your schnitzel fried, go ahead and fry in a little olive oil. It adds some…
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Hanukkah’s A Perfect Excuse To Talk ‘Donuts’ With Star Chef
It was thoughtful of the James Beard-Award winning chef Michael Solomonov and his business partner, Steve Cook, to come out with the “Federal Donuts” cookbook close enough to Hanukkah that I could write about it within the context of the holiday. The book, so says its cover, is “the (partially) true, spectacular story” of Philadelphia’s…
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Holier Than Thou: Donuts vs. Bagels
To the untrained eye, bagels and donuts can seem virtually identical. Take, for example, their common circular shape, or the hole in the middle, or the way they’re both sold by the dozen. But beneath these superficial similarities, donuts and bagels are actually quite different. Take it from us – we’re donut experts. And now,…
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Brooklyn BBQ King Set To Conquer NY-Style Deli
“I’m a kid from Brooklyn. I grew up around every deli you can imagine,” says Billy Durney, the pitmaster of New York’s most acclaimed barbecue restaurant Hometown Bar-B-Q. Among those delis, some Polish, others Italian or Russian, were Jewish spots like the Mill Basin Deli, and across the bridge in Manhattan, Carnegie, Second Avenue and…
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Recipes Here’s The (Gorgeous) Recipe Book You Wish Your Bubbe Had Written
When Sarah Rich and Wendy MacNaughton were browsing at an antiquarian book fair in San Francisco four years ago, they couldn’t believe what they found tucked into a display case: an unpublished 1945 sketchbook filled with hand-lettered recipes for everything from borscht to brisket, accompanied by hand-painted gouache paintings. They soon learned that “Leave Me…
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Recipes Brisket Of Beef From ‘Leave Me Alone With The Recipes’
Brisket is a Jewish classic and, when done right, one of the most delicious ways to eat a piece of beef. This recipe hews close to Cipe’s original, with the addition of caraway seeds, which she uses elsewhere in the book, and which stays true to the Eastern European flavor palette. Be sure to start…
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Recipes Cipe Pineles’s Caraway Soup With Dumplings
Cipe’s recipe for caraway soup with dumplings may make you wonder what kind of strange dish it will yield. The broth consists only of caraway-steeped water — essentially a tea — combined with a flour-and-butter roux, finished with spoonfuls of dumpling dough. It’s a traditional Hungarian dish called Köménymagleves, and, like the painting Cipe created…
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