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Showing posts with label KCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KCC. Show all posts

Monday, February 07, 2011

Jblogosphere News

This week's edition of Haveil Havalim is here.

The latest Kosher Cooking Carnival is here.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Monday, March 31, 2008

Two Minute Pizza

It's that time of year again. On one hand we have to get rid of all of the Chametz before Passover. On the other hand, who has time to cook when there is so much work to be done?

Usually you need at least an hour to make pizza. Kneading the dough, cooking the sauce and baking the pizza is a time consuming and labor intensive endeavor. Do you want to eat pizza? Here's my recipe for making pizza in only two minutes!

First you start off with a healthy whole wheat pita. We don't have time to make dough, there is pesach cleaning to be done. Another advantage of using pita is that there is no doubt with regards to the bracha that is to recited: HaMotzi Lechem Min HaAretz.

We don't have time to make tomato sauce either. Instead we just pour some ketchup on the pita.



The next step is the za'atar. Don't forget that za'atar!



Finally, we top the whole thing off with a couple of slices of yellow cheese. A minute and 20 seconds of microwave radiation later we have the finished product.



Don't forget! This pizza needs netilat yadayim, hamotzi, and birkat hamazon. Take the time out to do the mitzvot properly even if you are in a rush to finish your pesach cleaning.

Lasova!

Monday, June 25, 2007

Carnivals All Over And I Was Off Line!

I've been off line for the past few days and a lot has happened in the jblogosphere:

1) In a land down under, the Balebusteh hosted the 19th Kosher Cooking Carnival. It is a truly mouth-watering experience.

2) The Balebusteh's other half, Mr. Bagel, put up Jpix #10. I was quite honored to see one of my pics leading off the carnival.

3) In the shadow of the ancient tabernacle of Shiloh, we find of all things, Haveil Havalim.

I've got a lot of catching up to do.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Za'atar Eggs

Every so often I get an email from Batya telling me to submit recipes for the KCC, that's the Kosher Cooking Carnival.

Batya must think that I know how to cook. So I decided to demonstrate my great culinary skills in this post. I'm sure that you all will be awed.

This dish is the za'atar egg. To make it we need two eggs, preferably organic ones from Giv'ot Olam:




We also need a little bit of canola oil , and a lot of za'atar . Za'atar is a spice usually made out of thyme, sesame seeds, sumac, and salt. I never heard of it until I came to Israel. The main ingredient in za'atar is the thyme (in Hebrew Eizov). It grows wild in the mountainous regions of Israel. It is mentioned in the Torah several times, and is usually translated as hyssops. For instance:
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them: 'Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover lamb. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

The chumash lesson is over and now the cooking class begins.



Pour a little bit of canola oil in a frying pan. While the oil is heating up, crack open an egg into a clear cup in order to check it for blood spots from all angles:




If the egg is blood free, pour it into the pan. Do the same for the second egg.

Now you have to smother these eggs with za'atar:



Be sure to flip the eggs over to make sure that they are well fried. The result:



La'Briut!