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 [...]

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 called [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tomato Soup

Sundays with Marlena Spieler This  soup was a part of our meal along with  latkes & Apple Cranberry Chutney. When we cook, we tend to compare to something familiar maybe? To us the flavors just felt like rasam, a go to soup that one is given in South India when we have a cold or [...]

Spicy Corn Soup with Jalapenos & Roasted Bell Pepper

When the weather is stormy, winds blowing and leaves are strewn all over the place., the only type of food that beckons me is soup and mind you, it should be spicy and hot. Soup has the tendency to warm your heart and soul. I am trying to empty my refrigerator before I buy the [...]

Curried Chicken Salad

The first time I had this kind of a salad was when my friend, Cyndi made this for July 4th block party. R & I both loved it and as always, I asked for her the recipe. She gave it to me, I made it a couple of times and then lost the recipe. This [...]

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