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Apricot Confection with Pistachios
2008-06-04 06:11:00
These are from Mansoura Middle Eastern Bakery, 515 King's Highway Brooklyn. The apricot paste is face-scrunchingly sour and centrifugal with fruitiness. The blanched pistachios are very fresh and vivid. The sweetness and sourness of this candy somehow stay completely separate, not melding into any recognizable sweet-and-sour combination. A real Steeplechase ride for the palate.
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2008-05-29 22:39:00
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This Has NEVER Happened Before (Chocolate Shortbread)
2008-05-20 20:09:00
I am out of bittersweet chocolate!I am out of semisweet chocolateI am out of milk chocolateI am out of unsweetened chocolate in usable form (I need to break up a ten-pound block)I will have to replenish my stores, since as Sweetnicks will tell you, chocolate is one of nature's most powerful antioxidants.I do have cocoa, which I used to make a batch of Maida Heatter's chocolate shortbread. This is also the dough I use to make chocolate homentashn (hamentashen), for which you will want to double the recipe.Chocolate Shortbread (Adapted from Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts)2 cups (8 ounces) flour1 cup confectioners' sugar2/3 cup cocoa8 ounces (1 cup, 2 sticks) cold sweet butter, cut into chunks1 or 2 teaspoons vanilla extractHeat the oven to 300f. Combine the first four ingredients in a processor and process to a fine meal. with the machine running, add the vanilla, and continue processing until the dough forms a ball. Roll the dough to about 1/2 inch thick (He...

Banana Man is My Hero
2008-05-15 04:57:00
My five-borough bicycle tour was largely chocolate-fueled (I brought along some of this cake), and I roasted and salted some mixed nuts very early that morning, but I was especially glad to have one of these bananas in Astoria. Not for nothing--If you season freshly roasted nuts with powdered salt, do not try to cool them by blowing on them, especially not if you just put in your new contact lenses. Yowch. The Verrazano Bridge: Quanto è bello, quanto è caro
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Chocolate Coconut Cake for Passover
2008-05-09 21:16:00
I have been making this deeply-flavored and remarkably easy cake every peysekh for something like fifteen years. Two years ago, inspired by the miraculous Indira at Mahanandi, I decided to try this (and all my other coconut-related recipes) with freshly grated coconut, rather than the packaged shreds. The results are, if possible, even more delicious, and a little therapeutic coconut-smashing is just the thing after several weeks of frenzied peysekh-preparation.The Lady?s Chocolate Coconut Cake Preheat oven to 325 7 ounces (2 bars) Maestrani noblesse bittersweet chocolate, broken up Shredded pulp from one coconut (about 9 ounces, or 2 1/2 cups) or 7 ounces dried shredded coconut 7 ounces sugar 7 egg whitesPrepare your coconut. Heat the oven to 375 (or, if you have something going in the oven, whatever temperature is needed). Pierce two of the three dots on the pointed end (a Phillips-head screwdriver is good for this), and drain out the coconut-water. Drink the water stra...
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2008-05-08 07:27:00
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Herbed Parsnip Soup with or without Matzo Balls
2008-05-07 23:24:00
Parsnips are at their sweetest and most intense in the early spring, and I have always felt they are particularly well-suited for peysekh. This was the soup I made for the last days of Passover this year, and it proved an amenable home for matzo balls. Other vegetables I love at this time of year are celeriac and parsley root (not the same vegetable as parsnip), both of which you may add if you have them on hand. As usual, I prepared a very large pot of soup. The recipe should be fine if you want to make only half. Find other restorative herbal brews at Laurie's amazing Mediterranean Cooking in Alaska (you really want to see this wonderful blog!). Herbed Parsnip Soup Olive oil (be liberal) 2 or 3 largish onions, sliced 5 cloves garlic, sliced 2 medium carrots, diced 5-7 ribs celery, diced 2 pounds parsnips (about 7 parsnips), sliced or diced 1 parsley root (optional), peeled and sliced 1 celeriac (optional), peeled and diced ¼ bunch parsley (about ¼ cup minced leaves...
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2008-05-07 00:41:00
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Lost, or Stolen , or Strayed
2008-05-02 03:46:00
I had had this giant fuzzy pipe-cleaner flower on my handlebars for years and yesterday it was stolen on East Broadway. I really felt unsafe riding home, as if I had no helmet, or even clothing. And she was so looking forward to coming on the tour. I was heartsick.Chocolate helps. Also bubblewrap.
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Intriguing Street Names of New York Part II
2008-05-02 02:58:00
Old New UtrechtBoro Park, Brooklyn
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The Chocolate Lady 2008 Vegetarian Peysekh Survival Guide
2008-04-25 21:18:00
The Chocolate Lady 2008 Vegetarian Peysekh Survival Guide This year I picked up this amusing little notebook plate at Fishs Eddy. You can write on them with dry-erase markers. I think I have time to convey two new recipes before yontif. For me the biggest revelation this year was baked plantains. I can?t think of anything easier to make. Baked Plantains Heat oven to 400F. Place whole ripe plantains on a baking sheet and bake for about 30 minutes. They will split open at exactly the right moment all by themselves. Serve with butter, coarse salt, and sour cream (or, if you prefer, butter, brown sugar, and sour cream) Red Pepper Puree for Asparagus (or Other Things) 2 red bell peppers 1 fresh chile pepper (optional) ½ cup olive oil ¼ cup balsamic vinegar salt Place the peppers on a sheet of aluminum foil and cook them under the broiler, turning a few times, until the skin is charred all over. Wrap them in the foil until they are cool enough to handle. Peel the ...

Peysekh Survival (Short-Term)
2008-04-18 03:31:00
Artichoke by CooperThe (abbreviated) Chocolate Lady's 2007 Vegetarian Peysekh Survival Guide is here. The more comprehensive 2006 Survival Guide is here. These will have to get you through the first two days of yomtov. Keep a lookout for this year's edition, featuring Banana-Free Banana Cake With Bananas. A sweet and kosher festival to all in mol araan.
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Intriguing Street Names of New York Part I
2008-04-17 04:05:00
Gravesend NeckSheepshead Bay, BrooklynNot as grim as it sounds. "Gravesend" means "the count's beach (graf's send)"
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Hot Bird
2008-04-15 05:14:00
Dean Street near Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn. I like the ?four blocks back? bit.
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Passover is Already on One's Nose ???? ??? ??? ??? ??? ????
2008-04-10 05:24:00
Major Kovalev's Nose by Vyacheslav Bukhayev based on Gogol's story (the building looks sort of matzo-like)?? ???? ??????? "??? ?????? ??? ????????? ????? ??? ???????? ??? ????? ??????? ??????????? ?????. ?? ????????? ??? ?? ??????? ???? ?????, ????????? ???, ???? ?????. ?????? ???????????? ??? ??? ????????? ???? ???????? ??????: ??? ?????????, ??????? ???????, ???? ??????????, ???? ??????????. . .??? ???? ????, ??? ??? ???? ?? ?????????. ??? ????? ??, ????????, ??????????? ????? ?????. ?????????, ??? ??? ???? ??? ??? ???????? ??????. ????? ??? ????????? ??? ?? ??????????. ??? ???? ????? ????????. ?????????? ?? ?????????? ??? ???? ??? ??????. . . ???? ??? ??? ??? ??? ????. ????? ??? ??????? ???? ????? ??????? ?? ?????? ??? ??????????, ???? ?????? ???? ?????, ???? ??????? ?? ???????? ??????????, ??? ?? ?????????? ????? ???? ???????????. . . ?? ??? ????? ??? ?? ?????. From Der Tunkeler?s ?In the Chariot with Pharaoh: a Passover Dream,? in which the narrator interviews a bitt...

Flowering Bok Choi
2008-04-09 00:13:00
Spring is in the air. The blossoms on the callery pear trees are at their beautiful peak and Yuno?s farm has returned to a somewhat smaller stand in for the duration of construction in Union Square. This thrilling vegetable is not flowering broccoli, as I first guessed, but flowering bok choi (look at the leaves). They call it ?over-winter bok choi? Flowering Bok Choi Trim the bottoms and cook in liberally salted water for ten minutes. Drain and dress with oil and salt.To preserve the pristine beauty of the blossoms I tried to do as little as possible to cook the bok choi, and this may have been a mistake. I was fooled by the slender stems into thinking that this might be another vegetable suitable for one-handed cooking, like this lovely yu choi, but the stems, while slender, are pretty tough. Even so, I urge you to try this if you can find it. Tricky as it is to describe the variations in flavor between different strains of bok choi, I would say this bunch at least was swe...

Spiced Black Lentils with Cilantro
2008-04-06 09:02:00
I was thinking I wanted to make something like Girgir Aloo (lentils with potatoes), but I did not have any aloo, and I didn?t really have any garden variety girgir either. My very last lentils of the year were some exquisite black beluga lentils. Tiny and very pretty and flavorful. Lovely with basmati rice?on our way to a kitnyes-free household Spiced Black Lentils with Cilantro Olive oil (be liberal) 2 medium onions, diced 5 cloves garlic, minced 1 ½ teasppons whole cumin seeds 2 cups black lentils 1 cup prepared tomato sauce (or 6 ounces tomato paste) 1 ½ teaspoons turmeric 2 teaspoons paprika salt ½ bunch cilantro (1/2 cup minced leaves) Heat oil in a heave saucepan and cook the onions over a moderate flame until soft and translucent, about fifteen minutes. Add the garlic and cumin seeds and cook until fragrant, another five minutes or so. Wash and pick over the lentils, and add them to the pot with the spices. Give a stir and add five cups of water and about tw...

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2008-04-06 06:46:00
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Hemp Seed Cookies (Gluten-Free)
2008-03-30 19:27:00
This dough is vegan and wheat free, but most decidedly not sugar-free. Wheat-Free Vegan Dough for Cookies or Tart Shells 2 cups (12 ounces) raw almonds 4 ounces hemp seeds 2 tablesppons golden flax seeds (or regular flax seeds) ¼ cup chickpea flour 1 cup sugar (These were quite sweet. Less sugar would probably be just fine) ½ cup coconut oil Grind the almonds to a fine meal in a processor or grinder. You will have about 2 ½ cups of almond flour. Toast the hemp seeds to a light golden color and grind them to a fine meal. Grind the flax seeds (or you can buy ground flax meal to start with). Combine the ground nuts and seeds with the chickpea flour in a processor with the sugar and coconut oil, or mix by hand to form a cohesive dough. Chill the dough for an hour or so. This makes a delicious sable-type pastry. It will not hold together quite well enough for homentashn, but you can make wonderful thumbprint cookies (prune filling will be a nice match) or tart shells. K...
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Prune Filling (Lekvar) for Cookies, Tarts, or Homentashn (Hamentashen)
2008-03-23 19:28:00
Plum illustration from Knoop's Pomologia, Nuremburg, 1766, reproduced from Pomona's Harvest by H. Frederic Janson, 1996For this filling, I specifically bought prunes with the pits in, because I recall reading or hearing that you get more flavor if you cook stone fruits with the stones. I can?t really tell if this is true or not without doing two batches of prunes side by side (perhaps this is a good project for peysekh, the joyous holiday currently hurtling towards us like a barn owl who has just spotted a dormouse). In order to give the correct measurement for pitted prunes, I weighed the pits after I removed them. I would only do this for you. Prune Filling (Lekvar) 12 ounces (about 2 cups) prunes with pits (or 10 ½ ounces pitted prunes) 1 bay leaf (optional) grated orange and lemon zest (optional) part of a vanilla bean (optional) 1 tablespoon slivovitz (optional, but really nice) ½ to 1 cup honey or agave put the prunes in a saucepan with 3 cups of water and the ba...
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2008-03-19 21:13:00
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Herbed Hemp Seed Balls
2008-03-16 21:24:00
These turned out a bit more like falafel balls than that other kind of ball (this makes me think it might be worthwhile to try hemp seed falafel next time), but they are still delicious on their own as finger food, and really just perfect along with pasta and sauce. Other herbals and herb balls for the weekend are to be rounded up by Kel at Green Olive Tree. Herbed Hemp Seed Balls ¼ cup (2 ounces) golden flax seeds, or regular flax seeds 1 ½ cups (8 ounces) hemp seeds olive oil (be liberal) 3 or 4 onions, diced 5-7 cloves garlic, minced ½ bunch parsley (1/2 cup minced leaves) ½ teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled between your fingers salt, pepper, and paprika Cover the flax seeds with ½ cup water and allow them to soak several hours or overnight. Grind the soaked flax to a paste. Toast the hemp seeds in an iron skillet until light golden brown. Lightly crush or process the seeds to a rough meal. Heat the oil in a skillet and cook the diced onions until soft and tr...

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2008-03-14 21:40:00
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?It Wants to Come Sideways? Julia?s French Bread
2008-02-29 06:54:00
The thirteen-page recipe for French bread in Mastering the Art of French Cooking is one of the landmarks of the genre, a recipe I talk about all the time, but never made. I was always a little suspicious of this recipe. Volume I of Mastering explains that no recipe for French bread is provided because it would be impossible to reproduce outside of France, and I was more inclined to credit this account. I was inclined as well to be intimidated by the notoriously detailed recipe in Volume II, but I need not have been. Having more details makes the recipe easier, not harder, and the writing is so intelligent and humane, it is really a brilliant analog to the wonderful bread itself. Some of my favorite crumbs: [W]hen you tear off a piece, it wants to come sideways; it has body, chewability, and tastes and smells of the grain. Use one hand only for the kneading and keep the other clean to hold a pastry scraper, to dip out extra flour, to answer the telephone, and so forth [to t...
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Just OK ???????????
2008-02-29 04:20:00
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Get Dressed and Cook Something (Red Lentil Soup)
2008-02-24 07:40:00
You can see the soup here in a Colombian clay pot. It is unlacquered?that?s the black river clay itself. I got it a beloved shop on Greenwich Avenue called ?Be Seated.? The fabric on which it is sitting is a jacket I bought in the same shop. So you see, Be Seated sells clothes and pots, but no chairs. They should really call the store ?Get Dressed and Cook Something? This recipe, like almost all my soup recipes, makes a very large pot of soup. You may halve or third quantities to get a more manageable amount. It started out as a vegetarian adaptation of the Minestra di Esaù in Edda Servi Machlin?s Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jews, but it has become almost unrecognizable. I really should have written about this wonderful soup by now. It is one of the reliable workhorses of the rotation. I make this all the time. Other herbal staples are to be found at Kalyn?s Weekend Herb Blogging, hosted this week by Lia from Swirling Notions. Red Lentil Soup with Parsley and Garlic P...

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2008-02-22 22:00:00
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Hemp Seed Filling for Tarts, pastries, and Homentashn (Hamentashen)
2008-02-17 19:50:00
Well, of course I am beginning to think of poppy seed fillings, even if we have (blessedly) an extra month to think about them this year, and it seemed to me that the qualities of richness, mild bitterness, and just general seedlikeness (seediness?) that makes mon, or poppy, such an ideal pastry filling all work in favor of hemp seeds too, maybe even more so. My very first hemp seed filling is so delicious that I will be making many more, possibly a hemp and poppy mosaic sometime. Erin from The Skinny Gourmet will be hosting Kalyn?s Weekend Herb Blogging, where you will find all manner of plant-based sweetness. Hemp Seed Filling for Tarts , pastries, and Homentashn (Hamentashen) 2 cups hulled hemp seeds 1 cup milk (in this recipe, you can easily substitute soymilk or coconut milk) ½ cup agave (or honey) 4 cardamom pods 2 pinches salt Zest from one largish lemon, grated or microplaned Toast the hempseeds in an iron skillet to a light golden brown, stirring constantly. Do n...
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2008-02-14 05:49:00
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Bamboo Honey Vanilla Pudding (Japanese Knotweed)
2008-02-08 22:49:00
I have been making this pudding, or something like it, almost every week for the last three months. Bamboo honey is made from Japanese knotweed, or Polygonum cuspidatum which looks like bamboo, but is unrelated. The knotweeds are related to buckwheat, and the honey, like buckwheat honey, is dark, spicy, and rich in life-giving antioxidants. Bamboo honey is milder and fruitier than buckwheat honey, and perfectly suited for any desserts made with milk, cream, or yogurt. The Yiddish word for knotweed is ????? (grike), so Japanese knotweed is probably ??????????? ????? (yapanishe grike). The word in Chinese is ?? H?zhàng. Ulrike will be rounding up other herbal gifts of the weekend at Kuchenlatein. Honey Vanilla Pudding 6 cups milk 1 fat bourbon vanilla bean 1 ½ cups bamboo honey, or other honey, or agave pinch salt 2 1/2 ounces cornstarch (1/2 cup, lightly spooned) 2 eggs 2 ounces (1/2 stick) butter 1 teaspoon vanilla-scented bourbon, or vanilla, or bourbon, or n...