Category Archives: Pareve

Kicking Up The Pantry With Preserved Lemons

By Alexa | Published: May 2, 2013
Lemons + salt = sunshiney day. Preserved lemons are a relatively new addition to my pantry since my friend’s mother, Josiane, coached me through making my first batch last year. Josiane is Moroccan, and assured me they were easy to make, and essential to have on hand. How right she was! Once they were in my fridge, they [...]
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Wild Lunch: Foraging in Queens

By Alexa | Published: April 23, 2013
A few weeks ago on a Friday afternoon, I was tuned in to my local NPR station listening to Leonard Lopate while doing some Passover baking. Leonard Lopate, who hosts a daily interview show from 12-2 each weekday on WNYC,  has been dedicating Friday’s shows to all things food for 10 weeks. On this particular afternoon, [...]
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5-Element Kitchen: Chopping into Spring

By Alexa | Published: April 11, 2013
In the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) 5-element system, spring corresponds to the Wood element. If you think of Wood as bamboo, and not an oak tree, it’s a bit easier to see how wood’s correspondences make sense: the wood element exhibits characteristics of upward movement and flexibility, birth and new growth and it’s color is bright green. Those [...]
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The Eggs of Affliction: Beet-Pickled Deviled Eggs

By Alexa | Published: April 1, 2013
Yesterday I made the prettiest thing I’ve ever made ever. No contest! Can you pick it out in the picture above?! Those beautiful ruby-red beet-pickled deviled eggs were the perfect addition to our pre-meal nosh. I had been meaning to make these eggs for a while, since I first came across them at brunch at [...]
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Mushroom Walnut Spread

By Alexa | Published: March 29, 2013
Even more than chametz, the leavened bread and wheat products that are avoided during passover, I lament the other category of forbidden foods, kitniyot, even more. What is categorized as kitniyot varies from community to community, but generally corn, rice, lentils, dried beans and legumes are included. Avoiding kitniyot during passover is an Ashkenazic tradition dating back [...]
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