Kimchi and Kishke

It has been quite some time since I last updated the blog. Now I finally have some breathing room after an extremely busy year of being...

It has been roughly nine months since my last post. In that time, I finished my dissertation, earned my PhD, and started a new job as a...

This recipe for roasted squash is inspired by a few of the root vegetable & squash recipes from Meera Sodha's cookbook, Fresh India. I...

Charoset is one of those Jewish foods with a very specific utility, and it is a shame that we do not eat it more often. It is a chutney...

On this day last year, I was at a Cambodian-style crawfish boil at Kitty Cohen's, one of my favorite Austin bars with a real Boogie...

Last week was a rough week in Texas. We had a major snowstorm and days of sub-freezing weather that resulted in ERCOT—the poorly named...

This recipe is inspired by similar recipes for labneh cheesecakes in Bottom of the Pot by Naz Deravian and Falastin by Sami Tamimi. My...

Every Friday night, I test a new sheet pan roasted chicken recipe.I was really missing the mark the past few weeks, but last night I...

When I lived in Chicago, walking up to the historically-Swedish Andersonville neighborhood for glögg was one of the few things that got...

I write a lot about the Jewish heritage foods that I grew up eating, the recipes that my mother had to follow Bobe around to collect, the...

I don't know why matzo brei is so delicious, but it is. It's one of those dishes that is delicious with all sorts of flavors. My mother...

This salad is quite simple but really lovely for the fall/harvest season. It would make a great addition to a Sukkot dinner, and would...

Even though I was vegetarian for almost ten years, discovering my gluten allergy was probably the most difficult rupture between my diet...

I was so excited when I finally got my non-Jewish husband to like a kasha dish. Surprisingly, it was not kasha varnishkes—a classic kasha...

I have been reading my dad’s book Gastronomic Judaism and Culinary Midrash, and it has me thinking a lot about kashrut, Jewish dietary...

Growing up, the only type of Chinese food my parents cooked was a meat (or tofu) and vegetable stir fry, using whatever veggies we...

I read culinary histories and cook my way across the world in the COVID-19 moment, when I don't know when the next time I can travel to...

All right...here it is. A recipe to earn the name of this blog. Traditionally, the Rosh Hashanah—Jewish New Year—table includes a fish or...

Left: Maia and Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus's Bobe's Apple Pie You won't see a lot of baking recipes on this blog. I'll make blini and dosa,...

Stuffed cabbage is one of those heritage dishes that all manner of Slavs and Ashkenazi Jews make as soon as the weather cools and cabbage...