Cool
Summer Menu from the Kosher Kitchen
Who wants to cook in July? Either you are cooked out or BBQ fatigued
or on vacation. You may be taking a vacation chez vous or renting
a cabin somewhere but even so, we all can agree – easy (versus
hot and complicated) does it. Not only easy does it but it's the
time of year we prefer to enjoy recipes that are cucumber-cool
- something to refresh those dog-days-of-summer palates.
How about a soothing, chilled summer beet borsht, with poached
salmon and summer dill sauce? Then top it off with a simple but
elegant, chilled cottage cheese sweet almond pie. Forgo the cheese
pie and opt for a crisp chaser of buttery poppy seed cookies?
Add a salad somewhere inbetween these recipes and you have a summer
feast for any and all.
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.
