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Archive: August 2007

RECIPE FOR THOSE LAZY, HAZY, CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER

Posted on August 17, 2007

MANGO, JICAMA AND CORN SALAD Here’s a bright and refreshing salad. Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less but requires additional unattended time. 6 ears fresh corn 6 small mangoes, peeled, pitted, coarsely chopped 2 pounds jicama, peeled, chopped 1 cup chopped red onion 1/2 cup fresh chopped cilantro 1/2 cup fresh lime juice Continue Reading »

MY KINGDOM FOR A BROWNIE- AND WELL WORTH THE PRICE!

Posted on August 16, 2007

Start the teletype sound effects (we are showing our age with this one!)…….. Breaking News!!!! Start the flashing lights!! Cue the news anchor…….. Coming to the next edition of KosherFest this coming November will be a new gourmet product that will blow your socks off. If you are like us, you believe that there is Continue Reading »

SHIBUTA- THE FISH THAT TASTES LIKE PORK!

Posted on August 15, 2007

Great article from the L A Times: A chance to sample the diversity of kosher foods Marlin, elk — even yak — are on the menu at a learning and tasting event in Beverly Hills. And then there’s the strange fish said to taste like pork. By Tami Abdollah, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August Continue Reading »

Ash Reshteh Soup

Posted on August 14, 2007

We went to Patoug the other night. It is a Persian restaurant located on Horace Harding Blvd at Springfield Blvd, in Bayside, Queens. Hashgacha is by the Queens Vaad. We had an incredible soup there called Ash Reshteh Soup. It was an amazing soup! All three of us there raved about the soup. We wondered Continue Reading »

TAKE THE (KOSHER) A TRAIN

Posted on August 13, 2007

SUBWAY® BALTIMORE KOSHER SUBS To Open in the Fall July 30, 2007 (Baltimore) – Come Fall, Baltimore will join Cleveland and Brooklyn offering a Kosher SUBWAY®. The anticipated location will be at the 700-718 Reisterstown Road Shopping Center in Pikesville, MD. Kosher Subway will offer the authentic Subway menu available for dining in, catering or Continue Reading »

CAFE BLOSSOM ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE

Posted on August 10, 2007

You just gotta love press releases. Nowhere else will you get such open self praise! Here is a good one about a new kosher restaurant about to open on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Cafe Blossom to Open on the UWS in October Full Press Release from Blossom: “With the ever-increasing demand for Blossom’s Continue Reading »

APE SNOT AND OTHER CANDIES

Posted on August 9, 2007

We were hot and thirsty as we wandered the streets of a small town in Holland. We stopped in a corner store and bought some bottled water. All of a sudden, out of the corner of our eye we spotted a candy bag with a somewhat weird name on it. The candy was called Ape Continue Reading »

BRENT AND SAMS COOKIES

Posted on August 8, 2007

Ok, sure sure- you know about these unreal cookies. You know that they are a taste bud O boy! When we were at the Fancy Food Show, we could not just walk past their booth. Nope. No way, Josefina. We had to stop, several times in fact, to check out all their offerings. We have Continue Reading »

CATCHING UP WITH KETCHUP

Posted on August 6, 2007

Big news indeed: Tomatoes that will become ketchup, salsa, spaghetti sauce and other products are now being harvested in the Central Valley, and farmers report above-average yields from their fields. Canneries will pay farmers higher prices for processing tomatoes than they’ve seen in several years. But rising water costs will offset some of the benefit Continue Reading »

SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN

Posted on August 3, 2007

It apparently is not enough that we all have to put up with those frisky evangelicals and others who ring our doorbell, anxious to share what they call the “good news.” It is not enough to we often sit in traffic behind cars with the somewhat ubiquitous Christian fish on the back of the car Continue Reading »