June 19, 2016
Author: Shayna Halliwell
Ingredients:
2 cups chopped, peeled gala apples
1 cup chopped, peeled, granny smith apples
¾ cup coarsely chopped walnuts
3 tbsp sweet malaga wine
1 ½ tbsp honey
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
Preparation:
Combine all ingredients
Refridgerate for 2 hours in airtight container
March 12, 2013
Author: JDCEntwine
Recipe courtesy of Larisa Simonova from Tallinn, Estonia. Read more about the JDC and Estonia.
Ingredients:
1 large turkey
For the stuffing:
• 10 pieces of matzah, crumbled • 1 1⁄2 cups white wine
• Vegetable oil
• 2 medium-sized onions, cubed • 2 tablespoons soup mix
• 1 stalk celery, diced
• 10 rosemary twigs
• 3⁄4 to 1 cup walnuts, chopped
For the basting oil:
• 1⁄2 cup olive oil
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons mustard
• 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper • 1⁄2 teaspoon paprika
Preparation:
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Clean turkey thoroughly.
To prepare the matzah stuffing: soak matzah in a dish with the white wine until soft. Fry the onion in vegetable oil until the onion turns golden. Mix the onion together with the matzah, then add the celery, rosemary, and walnuts.
Mix olive oil, mustard, black pepper, and paprika in separate dish and then smear on turkey using your
hands. Stuff turkey with the matzah stuffing, placing any additional stuffing under the turkey. Cover with foil and roast for at least 3 hours, turning it from time to time, until bird is tender and golden.
January 3, 2014
Author: Gloria Kobrin
For 60 years, my parents employed a wonderful woman named Annie Mae. In fact, I wrote an article about her for this site last year. While Annie Mae was not my biological Grandmother, she was my Grandmother in many ways I wish my real Grandmothers had lived long enough to be. Annie Mae listened to me whine. She introduced the world of “Soaps” to me; watching in secret because my Mother would have been furious at us both. Most importantly, Annie Mae let me hang out with her in the kitchen and watch her cook-and eventually, help her cook. Amongst the many recipes that she made that we all loved and wish we had written down, was Beef Stew. Chunks of soft meat in thick gravy with carrots and potatoes- YUM!
While Beef Stew is considered as American as Apple Pie, there are variations of it in every cuisine. My parents gave my brother and me the opportunity to travel with them when we were teenagers. It was in Paris, that I was introduced to Boeuf Bourguignon. This was Beef Stew of a different kind. After I was married, I turned to Julia Child’s books to learn about French cooking. I took her recipe from Mastering The Art of French Cooking and worked on it to make it kosher. Success-my Boeuf Bourguignon was delicious. More recently, I’ve gone over many of the recipes in which I used a great deal of margarine and substituted much of it with oil. In the case of Boeuf Bourguignon, I brown the beef cubes in a very hot pre-heated t oven with no extra fat at all. Not only is it kosher but more healthy as well. I have no doubt that you will enjoy this recipe as much as we do.
Ingredients:
4 pounds lean chuck beef-cut into 1 inch cubes
4 ½ cups dry red wine (you’ll need 2 bottles)
2 cups beef stock (fresh/boxed)
2 bay leaves
2 large garlic cloves
1 ½ tablespoons tomato paste
1 teaspoon crushed thyme
½ teaspoon crushed marjoram
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 ½ pounds white mushrooms
One 14-16 ounce bag frozen white onions-defrosted
herb bouquet: 2 parsley sprigs, 1bay leaf, ½ teaspoon thyme, 6 peppercorns tied in cheesecloth
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 tablespoons non-dairy margarine-softened
6 tablespoons flour
Equipment
Large roasting pan-tin foil pan is fine
Large skillet
10-12 inch Dutch oven
Slotted spoon
Whisk
Preparation:
SERVES: 8
The combination of red wine, vegetables, and spices turn the humble beef cube into something spectacular.
Prep time: 45 min. Braising: 2 ½ -3 hours Mushrooms & Onions; 30 min. Finishing: 30 min.
Preheat oven to: 425 F.
Trim beef cubes of all loose fat, rinse and pat dry.
Arrange beef cubes in a single layer in roasting pan. Sprinkle with 1½ tablespoons flour. Place pan in oven and cook beef for 10 minutes. Shake pan vigorously and sprinkle remaining 1½ teaspoons flour over beef. Cook for 8 minutes longer. Remove pan from oven. Reduce oven temperature to: 325 F.
Using a slotted spoon, remove browned beef cubes from pan and put into Dutch oven. Reserve liquid from pan.
Pour 4 cups wine over beef cubes. Add just enough beef stock to cover meat. Refrigerate remaining stock.
Crush garlic cloves and add with herbs, spices, and tomato paste to meat. Stir well. Bring mixture to a boil, then reduce to a simmer, cover and place in lower level of oven. Cook 2 ½ to 3 hours or until meat is very tender. Check casserole 2 or 3 times to be sure that a simmer is being maintained. While meat is cooking, prepare mushrooms and onions.
Wipe mushrooms clean and quarter them. Cut them in sixths or eighths if they are very large.. Heat 4 tablespoons oil over medium high heat in skillet. Add mushrooms. Toss quickly so that they brown lightly. Remove mushrooms from pan with a slotted spoon and set aside. Leave mushroom liquid in the pan.
Add remaining ½ cup wine, herb bouquet, reserved beef gravy and onions to skillet. Simmer for 20 minutes. Remove onions with slotted spoon and add to mushrooms.
When beef is done: remove from liquid and cool. Mix beef with onions and mushrooms. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate. Chill gravy separately-either several hours or overnight- until fat has congealed. Remove fat.
Cream 3 tablespoons margarine and remaining flour. Bring gravy to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Whisk flour and margarine paste into gravy stirring vigorously until sauce has slightly thickened. This treatment of the sauce not only thickens it but also gives it a beautiful sheen. Return meat, mushrooms, and onions to gravy. Simmer until beef is hot. Serve Boeuf Bourguignon piping hot with rice or noodles.
Note: This recipe gets even better when prepared one or two days in advance.
This post was submitted by Gloria Kobrin.
Posted in Main Courses
Tags: beef, wine, mushrooms, onions
February 1, 2013
Author: Mo Rocca
Grandmother and math teacher Ruth Teig teaches Mo Rocca how to make classic Jewish cuisine on My Grandmother’s Ravioli. On the menu is kreplach (or Jewish ravioli.) Ruth surprises Mo with a large live Carp in her bathtub to teach him how generations of Jews in Europe would keep their fish fresh before the invention of refrigeration. Mo also gets to taste Ruth’s magical coffee cake that she uses as currency to feed household workmen and to allows her to skip to the front of long lines at the DMV.
Ingredients:
Filling:
• 2lbs Boneless Chuck or Brisket
• 1 bottle of dry red wine
• 1 large onion chopped plus 3 large onions sliced
• 2 carrots chopped
• 2 celery stalks chopped
• canola oil
• salt and pepper to taste
Dough:
• 3 cups flour
• 4 large eggs
Preparation:
1. Place the meat, the chopped onion, carrots and celery in a large dutch oven. Add the bottle of red Wine and cook in a 375 degree oven until meat is fork tender. This should take about 1-2 hours. Let cool.
2. In a large skillet, over a medium flame, sauté the 3 sliced onions in canola oil until they are completely caramelized. remove from heat and let cool.
3. Chop cooled meat into large pieces that will fit into the spout of a meat grinder. Using a meat grinder, alternate grinding the meat and the caramelized onions until it has all been ground together. taste mixture and if necessary, adjust for seasoning with salt and pepper.
4. Place all of the flour and the eggs in a food processor and let it run until it forms a dough.
5. Remove the dough from the food processor, cover it with a dry dishtowel, and let it rest on the counter for a half hour.
6. While the dough is resting, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Once it’s come to a boil, lower the flame so the water is simmering.
7. Cut the dough in quarters. Leaving the other sections covered, take one of the sections and on a well-floured board roll it out until it’s approximately 1/4” thick.
8. Using a knife, cut the dough into approximately 2” squares.
9. Place a teaspoon of filling onto the center of each piece of dough.
10. Wet the sides of the dough with water and fold the dough corner to corner crimping the dough together with your fingers to form a triangle.
11. Join the two ends together like a little ring, as with tortellini or wontons. Repeat with the rest of the dough.
12. To cook the kreplach, in small batches place them carefully into the pot of simmering water. when they rise to the top of the water cook for another 5 minutes.
13. When the kreplach are cooked, remove with a strainer and place them in a bowl with a little bit of oil. This will prevent them from sticking together.
14. Serve in chicken soup, as a side dish, or put them in a 350 degree oven until they get crisp and brown around the edges.
