Blintzes are traditionally served on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (Pentecost). Yesterday, I wrote about making blintzes or other holiday foods healthier. When I was growing up, my mother often served Empire frozen blintzes. When she first made them from scratch, almost certainly from Norene Gilletz’s book The Pleasures of Your Food Processor, the family […]
May 12, 2010
Greek Salad with Feta Cheese and Olives
Wednesday is Recipe Day at Cooking Manager. This guest post by Michelle is in honor of Shavuot (Pentecost), the Jewish holiday observed next week when it’s traditional to serve dairy. Greek salad, or horiatiki, is a rough country salad of juicy tomatoes, crisp cucumber, sliced red onion, pepper, crumbly feta cheese and plump kalamata olives. […]
May 10, 2010
Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Interview with Norma Ritter
Please welcome Norma Ritter for today’s reader interview. Norma, can you tell Cooking Manager readers about yourself? My name is Norma Ritter and I live in Glenville, New York, which is just outside of Albany, the state capital. I am an ex-pat Brit who moved to the USA to marry her American sweetheart, Glenn, 36 […]
May 5, 2010
Twenty Minute Dinner Challenge: Tuna Stir-Fry
A reader with small children asked for specific dinner ideas. She had the following requirements: 20 minutes preparation time No food processor Not using the food processor means that you are less likely to cook with vegetables because it is more work. And while most recipes on this site that call for a food processor […]
April 28, 2010
Mushroom-Barley Soup
This healthy, vegan/vegetarian low-fat mushroom barley soup takes ten minutes of preparation and a a little more than an hour to cook.
April 21, 2010
Rice and Chickpea Casserole with Tomatoes
Wednesday is Recipe Day at CookingManager.Com. Today’s recipe is vegetarian, gluten-free, easy and delicious. The morning after I made this, my six-year-old asked if she could have some of the leftovers. Serves 4-6 Ingredients: 2 tablespoons oil 1.5 onions, chopped 4 cloves garlic, chopped or minced 1.5 cups brown or white rice 3 fresh, ripe […]
April 14, 2010
Recipe: Low-Fat Turkey Chili in Crock Pot
This is an easy, filling, and very flexible recipe with a vegetarian option. Double it and save half for an extra meal (or two).
April 7, 2010
Make Pot Roast to Tenderize Cheaper Cuts of Beef
A recipe for tenderizing less expensive cuts on the meat by pot roasting it with vegetables, wine and tomato sauce.
March 24, 2010
One-Bowl Passover Cakes (Gluten-Free)
Most Passover cakes require separating eggs. If you grew up kosher, you may remember cakes with a layer of sticky goo at the bottom. But these cakes, from potato starch are mixed in one bowl. You can’t get simpler than that. And before you ask, many baking powders are certified kosher for Passover.
These flourless, gluten-free cake recipes were developed by Malky, who runs an email list for Jewish homemakers.
March 17, 2010
Chard Sauteed with Olive Oil and Garlic
Fresh chard is coming into season and the markets are full of this bright green delicacy.
Chard can be used in any recipe calling for spinach. The only difference is that the white stalks take longer to cook than the green, leafy parts.
I sauteed these, based on a recipe by Anna Wintour in The New Vegetarian Epicure.
