Kosher Cuisine with Marcy Goldman
Recipe
Archives
2007
December
- Milder
(and early) Hanukah, Same Wonderful Treats
Classic
Latkes Almost
Ok – these are not too classic but are they good!
Hanukah
Orange Spritzer Cake
Those meals of latkes and brisket need a citrus respite. Here
is an oil-based or pareve cake that is packed with flavour and the
zesty goodness of a whole orange grove.
Honey
Cake Cupcakes
Why didn’t I think of this sooner? Mini honey cake takes
on a whole new appeal when you present them as bite-sized cupcakes.
Sweet Cheesecake
Filo Coffee Pastries
A little sweetened cream cheese and semolina custard batter
in a filo foundation yields a marvelous Danish style pastry, with
a Middle East touch.
Hanukah
Gold Fruitcake
I’ve made this cake since I was a teenager learning to
bake and wanted something for Hanukah that was a cake that would
also last for eight days.
November
- Fabulous
and Flavorful Non Dairy Desserts Grace the (Kosher) Thanksgiving
Table
European
Cranberry Apple Strudel
This is a tender pastry and cake-like strudel that you make 2-3
days ahead.
Golden
Apple Sauce Pound Cake
Moist and golden, replete with apples, butter, and a gentle touch
of spice.
Sweet Pumpkin
Spice and Pecan Cake
This is a great snacking loaf or hospitality gift bread.
Double
Fudge (Dairy Free) Thanksgiving Chocolate Cake
Here is a rich, moist cake that is milk-and-butter free but
absolutely decadent and flavourful.
October
- Harvest Holiday Abounds in Fruity Recipes
Pear,
Cranberry, & Apple Rolly Polly Biscotti
Is this strudel or a new wave biscotti? This features a biscotti/cookie
dough, that is rippled through with apple pie filling (the homemade
filling is included; but you can also use a can of apple pie filling
to speed things up).
Succot
Harvest Challah
A harvest rich challah, replete with fruits
and a sweet, vanilla-tinged challah dough.
Fresh
Apple Quick Bread
Apples and pecans in a buttery little loaf that bakes up golden.
September
- New Years Desserts
- Rosh Hashanah
Sticky
Chewy Honey Mandelbrot
Sweet pecans, vanilla halvah, and honey make this the ultra
Mandelbrot for a sweet new year.
Orange
and Tea Honey Cake
This high and moist cake is easy, elegant, and is medium-hued
in color. Apricot preserves add flavor, sweetness, and moistness.
Apple Bubka
Bread
Lightly sweetened dough cradles chunks of apples, tossed in
sugar and cinnamon. This is really a gorgeous, sweet yeasted coffeecake
masquerading as bread...
You Tube
Apple Cake
Apples, batter, spice and a nice, leisurely bake, result in
a fragrant, autumn, apple cake fit for the Jewish New Year and You
Tube? When You Tube first got its big break in fame, I created something
special to go with it.
August
- Kosher Chips and
Kosher Coney Island Corn Dogs? What’s Next?
Coney
Island Kosher Corn Dogs
Hebrew National makes particularly great corndogs but any kosher,
all-beef hotdog will do.
Turkey
BBQ Burgers
Turkey is the original other white meat. Adding liquid smoke
to these is a cool kosher trick that adds a zesty BBQ flavour to
them whether you cook them indoors or on the grill.
Fast
Food French Fries
The best fries are fried twice. There is a special method here
that is the trade secret of bistro chefs. Just follow the recipe.
Honey
Whole Wheat Challah Dough Hamburger Rolls
Why not boost this lovely, lofty bun with a touch of white-whole
wheat flour and complex-up those carbs. It’s fast food but
better fast food.
Play
Ball! Baseball Brownies
Bake these oil-based, rich, fudge brownies in a jellyroll pan.
July
- Cool Summer Menu from the Kosher Kitchen
Summer
Beet Borscht
This appetizing, scarlet, chilled soup is the Jewish kitchen's
answer to vichyssoise.
Poached
Salmon Steaks or Filets with Dill Sauce
I love this herb coating on fresh salmon steaks or filets. Make
this in the oven or in papiotte, a parchment papger envelope to
quickly cook this in the microwave.
Almond
Cottage Cheese Pie
Bake and chill and then luxuriate in this rich but not too rich,
cottage cheese based sweet almond pie. Serve with sour cream or
fruit or plain. This freezes well too. Dry cottage cheese is a kosher
style cottage cheese also called hoop or baker's cheese. You can
also use drained curd cottage cheese.
Buttery
Poppy Seed Cookies
A bit of a switch in poppy seed cookies. A rich, crisp buttery
dough, filled with requisite poppy seeds makes this homey but slightly
upper crust, in 'mon' cookies. Make these tiny and thin, and serve
with tea.
June - Barbeque for
Father's Day
Cola BBQ
Sauce
This quick and easy BBQ sauce turns anything into a smokehouse
gourmet event.
Smokey
Cola Texas Brisket
Thinly sliced and served on warm rolls and homemade Cola BBQ
Sauce, this brisket doesn't have a grandma feel to it at all.
Mesquite
Short Ribs
Beef ribs are usually available in most supermarkets but kosher
butcher shops always have them on hand.
Dad’s
Horseradish Coleslaw
My dad loved horseradish on anything.
May
- Mother’s
Day Month and Shavuot Combine for Delicate Dairy Sweets….
April
- Specialty
Kugels Expand the Passover Horizons
Laura’s
Passover Carrot Pudding
Laura is a friend who shared this fabulous carrot pudding treasured
recipe with me. It can be pareve or dairy but is always a hit.
Matzoh
Apple Schalet
A lovely, updated, apple laden kugel or pudding, that is perfect
Passover.
The vanilla is optional, depending if you use it at Passover and/or
you find kosher-for-Passover vanilla.
Almond
Pudding
This would be nice with a dairy meal or alongside an elegant
sole almandine.
My
Famous Mushroom Onion Passover Kugel
This doubles as a stuffing but it really shines as a heat and
serve kugel side dish.
If you have some kosher white wine on hand, add 2-3 tablespoons
to make this kugel that much more flavorful.
Sweet
Apple Farfel Kugel
A lovely, updated, apple laden kugel that is perfect for Passver,
and is lovely and spring-ish...on any menu.
March
2007 - Have Yourself a Nutty Purim
Toasted
Almond and Plum Jam Crescent Cookies
Plum jam adds flair to this delicate Purim pastry/cookie.
Key
Lime Cashew Cookies
Thick rounds of cashew cookies with a Key Lime accent. Nothing
beats the tropical scent of lime in the middle of March, Purim or
not. Boyajian Inc. makes pure lime oil and is widely available or
can be ordered online. If you do not have it, substitute lime extract
(try Spice Etc.).
Purim
Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies with Hazelnut Cream
Nutella, that popular hazelnut and chocolate paste is sheer
decadent when sandwiches inside this classic shortbread. There are
also kosher versions of this wonderful baking ingredient. These
cookies are crowd-pleasing.
February
2007 - Tu Bishvat -
Halvah
Cranberry Orange Scones - These are delectable sweet scones,
with a Biblical ingredient: halvah and a touch of fruity goodness.
Gummy
Bear Chewy Fruit Mini Strudels - This is sometimes referred
to as "haimish strudel" or dried fruit strudel and is
a holiday delicacy that is a cross between a confection and a pastry.
Raspberry
Brown Sugar Bars - Ultra sweet squares, nicely broken up
by the zing of raspberries and buttery pecans.
Tu Bishvat
Plum Tart - A sophisticated, plumy pastry offering. Plums
add vibrant color to the winter dessert table.
January
2007 - From Russia With Love, Part
1*
Cooking with Russian Roots
Russian Cabbage Borsht
- If you were doing well, in turn of the century Russia, it
is possible; you had meat to give this soup some more oomph.
Sweet and Sour Red Beet Salad
- Cooked beats, touch of vinegar and sugar makes this classic
a perky side.
Chicken Kiev - Garlic
and butter filled chicken breast, deep fried to perfection yields
bundles of goodness.
2006
December
- Have yourself a black and white Chanukah
Master
Bagel Dough - This recipe makes New York Style bagels, amazing
bagel dough pizzas, soft pretzels, or an ‘everything’
bialy or ‘Jewish Foccaccio’.
Bagel Dough
Pizza - Crisp, rustic, extra thin pizzas on a superb dough.
Bagel Dough
Soft Pretzels - These are similar to New York City soft pretzels
from a street vendor.
Bagel Dough
“Everything’ Foccaccio - This is essentially a flatbread,
that has the shape of Foccaccio but tastes like an Everything bagel.
October
- Succot Hop
Desserts Crowd Pleasin’
Succot
Party Honey Cake - Jewish bakeries often sell huge honey
cakes that are cut in mammoth slabs. Those are honey cakes that
are just splendid, simply for their girth. But they are also something
you can do at home, if hosting a Succot hop/party. This makes a
huge cake but it also keeps for a good week or freezes well.
Prune Danish
Pastry Torte - This is a multi-layered extravagant Icelandic
treat. It is really cookie dough, rolled thin, in discs and baked.
Sticky
Chewy Italian Chocolate Honey Cake - This is more of a confection
than a cake; it is spicy, sweet and memorable.
September
- A
Sweet New Year Always Welcomes More Sweet Apple Recipes
Honey
Apple Cake
Spice and ginger ale, plus marmalade makes a great, moist honey
cake. A garnish of apples echoes the honey and apples theme in a
visual way.
Apple
Cinnamon and Vanilla Crostata
A rich pastry crust lines a cheesecake pan which is then filled
with mounds of apple slices, kissed with pure vanilla and fresh
lemon juice. Strips of pastry, cut in odd shapes with a serrated
pastry wheel create the unusual top crust. Any way you patch together
the pastry over the fruit will yield a beautiful finished crostata.
The cheesecake pan helps whip the crostata, otherwise a free-form
pastry, into shape for fine dining.
Yeasted
Apple Rugulah
These are very New York bakery styled. They are tiny puffs,
of Danish like dough that encases apple pie filling, raisins and
cinnamon.
August
2006 - Lemonade
– Refreshing Desserts For Summer Palates
Recipes:
Lemony
Bundt Cake
Tall, moist, majestic – this cake needs bragging rights.
The Bundt © cake pan was invented by the Nordicware Company
in response to a trio of Hadassah Ladies who asked David Dalquist,
to replicate their Old Country ‘boondt’ pan. It was
1946; the rest is history. Nothing says ‘we’re having
a celebration’ than the word ‘Bundt cake’.
Blueberry
Lemon Loaf
Summer berries update the classic lemon loaf. This is richer
than a quick bread; rather like a muffin in a lofty loaf.
Lemon Butter
Cookies With White Chocolate Glaze
Adding lemon extract to the white chocolate makes these a double
lemon punch….but it’s a mellow yellow in this case.
Grinding the sugar a bit finer, with the zest, is as trick that
helps distribute the perfume of the lemon throughout the cookie.
July
2006 - Stone Fruit
Baking Yields Fruity Reward
Recipies:
Warm Apricot
Pastries
Puff pastry from a French-style bakery is usually better, but
most commercial varieties will do.
French
Sour Cherry and Cream Cake
A shortbread bottom with a pastry cream topping – all
baked together for a unique, European tart.
Open-Faced
Peach Kutchen Tart
This has the flavor notes and homey-ness of a peach kutchen
but is a trifle more sophisticated.
Belgium
Sugar Plum Tart
A lean but tender yeasted pastry dough, touch of sugar, smidge
of butter, topped with diced plums.
June
2006 - Open Faced
Pies, Kool and Kosher Finale
Cherry
Cheese Pie in a Graham Crust
A sumptuous little cheesecake in no time flat.
Key
Lime Ice Box Pie
An elegant dessert that is creamy and piquant at the same time.
Bridge
Party Lemon Ice Box Pie
No need to worry about meringues. This is like lemon sherbet
on a stick.
Chocolate
Malt Shop Pie
Creamy, dreamy chocolate pie – what’s not to like?
May
2006 - Shavuot
is just a good excuse to make some!
Pineapple
and Custard Strudel
Filo, pineapple and a bit of baked in custard makes this scrumptious.It
has a cheesecake like taste but is whipped together in minutes and
needs no chilling.
Apricot
Sunrise Cream Cheese Tart
Smooth and light, and pretty as a picture.
Swiss
Blintz Casserole
Béchamel, Parmesan, and Gruyere stacked between blintzes
make a super Shavuot Brunch dish. A nice change from the sweet blintz
casseroles usually served.
April
2006 - Passover
Desserts Always in Demand
Passover
Fallen Chocolate Soufflé Cake
This cake is a truffle, done in Passover style: totally flour
free, but flavor rich. It also can be made ahead and frozen.
Blitz
Passover Banana Cake
Ok – a cake cheat sheet. Sometimes you want it quick and
easy and at Passover, this is just the thing.
Apple
Cherry Almond Macaroon Crisp
Quite a mouthful! This is fresh fruit and a delightful
matzoh meal, brown sugar and crumbled up macaroon crisp topping.
March 2006 -
Delicate, Sweet, Buttery Treats for your Purim Gift Baskets
Purim
Amaretti
Who wouldn’t want to find a batch of these in the Purim
package?
Purim
Jam Shortbread Sandwich Cookies
A delicate pastry cookie that is a great keeper –
perfect for hosting with or packing in a gift bag. You can use raspberry
jam or apricot hamantashen filling.
Queen Ester
Chocolate Decadence Cookies
You would expect cookies named for a queen to be decadent and
regal. These flour-free chocolate cookies are tiny gems, fallen
soufflés that morph into rich, chewy, crisp cookies, perfect
for Purim.
Caramel
Chocolate Pecan Purim Bars
Nothing beats this brown sugar blondie bar, stuffed with added
goodies. Cut these small, for they are rich, wrap in colored paper
and stuff them into Purim bags.
February
2006 - Fruit
and Nuts Treats for the Passover of the Trees…..
Dried Strawberry Challah
Dried strawberries, honey and ingenuity make this a new and
beautiful sweet challah for the holidays.
Toasted
Coconut Cookies
Coconut makes perfect sense of a Middle Eastern spin on a biblical
holiday.
Jaffa Orange Tuttti
Frutti Mandelbrot
Sunny flavors in a traditional treat not only make a superb
Tu Bishavat cookie but inspire the taste buds at a time of year
we can use all the extra sunshine we can get – even by the
baker’s expertise.
January
2006 - January Baking is Quick and Easy – but no shortcuts
on taste…..
Pie
Dough Apple Strudel
This recipe makes big hunks of strudel,
which are solid enough to eat out of hand, versus plate and fork
strudel.
Ice-Box Black Forest Cake
This is something we all remember making
at least once.
Mock Puff Dough Cheese Danish
This quick and easy mock puff dough is flaky and delicate.
Deli Rye Beer Quick Bread
This is a quick rye bread, not yeast
but quick and easy.
December
2005 - Is it time for latkes and donuts –
is the season of oil and light already here? Time To Make the
Donuts…..Kosher Style
French Pastry Doughnuts
These are lighter than air and baked, not fried. A batch of
these never lasts over an hour.
Spice Donuts
Donuts but not fried. Little spice cakes that are perfect,
after a huge latkes and brisket meal.
Classic Chanukah
Donuts
A little baking powder makes these yeasted donuts fry up a
touch lighter and more tender. Baker’s trick for a Chanukah
treat.
Custard and Chocolate
Glazed
These are my favorites. If you are in a hurry, you can substitute
a packet of kosher, instant vanilla pudding for the filling.
Herb
Slathered Turkey, bonus recipe
Another perfect turkey -this one takes a short brining to tenderize
it and then a slather of oil and fresh herbs paste under the skin
makes this a turkey no holiday should be without.
Harvest Pumpkin Challah
What is more appropriate for celebrating U.S. Thanksgiving with
a kosher, post-Succoth flair? Pumpkin Challah of course! Add chopped
cranberries and raisins if you like.
Cranberry Apple and
Apricot Strudel Tart
Kosher filo dough does the trick here in a tart that is European
by virtue of the use of pastry dough but American harvest in filling.
Sour Cream Pumpkin
Pie Cookies
In-between the big meals and big clean up – this is just
a perfect treat. Anything is better with raisins in it – wouldn’t
you agree?
October 2005 - Apples
for the New Year’s, Part 2 of the Rosh Hashanah Bake Fest
