Beans and Barley Soup

Sunday with Marlena Spieler
The earliest memories I have of Barley is my dad asking amma to make him Barley water. As kids, we would shun away from it. My mom would incorporate barley water in vegetable soup and I would slurp on it happily clueless that it had barley water. But now, I embrace it. [...]

Oriental Salad Dressing

Spring is around the corner and we have started having spring themed salads in the house. Tonight the theme was Asian- so an Asian inspired salad dressing drizzled over organic spring greens, sliced mushrooms, clementines and almonds. I was so good, I wrote down the recipe as I measured diligently. This is a go to [...]

Coleslaw

Sunday with Marlena Spieler
The first time I ever had coleslaw was at KFC. After eating some really gross oily chicken, coleslaw was a welcome diversion.  I have later had some really kick ass coleslaw and wondered how I liked the other one. Ah well, I guess it was not as gross as the chicken.
This was [...]

Curried Cabbage Salad

Sunday With Marlena Spieler
You either love cabbage or you hate it. Can you tell we love it? We cooked braised cabbage with apples in class yesterday and that was one of my favorites.  We had white and red cabbage at home. With one we made coleslaw and the other this salad. Coincidentally, the Jewish also [...]

White Bean Salad

Sunday with Marlena Spieler
You ask how in the world does Candied lemon peel get incorporated in this recipe? Read on . This  journey of cooking through Marlena’s cookbook is a truly a world tour. We travel through different countries and our kitchen now smells of foods from all over the globe.
The recipe [...]

Mung Beans & Wild Rice Soup

This is not the weather we particularly love, now don’t start on how much colder the East coast is or Alaska is. All that matters is Sacramento is really cold for us and soups calls out to us. we wanted soup, but something that is filling and had Indian spices to it, guess that is [...]

Roasted Eggplant Salad

Sundays with Marlena Spieler
This was a relaxing weekend for us. We spent time with friends and family and today we get to relax and start the week ahead. We did not cook much at home, but definitely ate a lot of food. We wanted something light today and this recipe came in handy. Our nephew [...]

Matzo Ball Soup

Sundays with Marlena Spieler
When we started on this culinary journey, We knew we had Marlena Spieler’s blessings, but did not imagine her aunt to also be a part of this wonderful project. Estelle Opper is a fun lady to hang out with. What was going to be a day with Estelle, ended up being a [...]

Egg Salad

Sundays with Marlena Spieler
Although Egg salads are a part of deli style menu, chopped egg and onions is one of the oldest dishes in Jewish history according to Marlena Spieler. Some even say that it goes back to the Egyptian times and it is also considered an Ashkenazi  dish. (The Jews descended from the medieval [...]

Root Vegetable Soup

Sundays with Marlena Spieler
We love to have hearty soups in winter and when we chose to cook this recipe, it was wonderful because were truly playing with vegetables we haven’t usually even glanced at- Turnip, Parsnip & Rutabaga. The title of the recipe in the book is Russian spinach & Root Vegetable soup with Dill- [...]

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