Every Jewish person I know has a strong opinion about what makes a good matzo ball, and a story about the worst ones they ever had. I love, love, love matzo balls, and it’s time to make them! (Quite honestly, I make them other times of year for no more compelling reason than I want […]

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  • April 14, 2014 - 9:18 am

    Peggy Gilbey McMackin - These look great Nancy and will definitely give them a try!
    These would be great to share on Spiced Peach Blog if you are interested. Peggy@spicedpeachblog.com I live in the Philadelphia area. Have a blessed Passover.ReplyCancel

    • April 14, 2014 - 9:45 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Thanks Peggy! Always great to find a local fellow blogger. I will definitely check you out!!ReplyCancel

  • April 10, 2017 - 6:31 am

    Why Is This Night Different? » Chefs Last Diet - […] second course at every Seder I’ve attended is matzo ball soup. I love matzo ball soup and make it autumn through spring. I used to bring a large batch to […]ReplyCancel

So often someone comes to my house for dinner, or I go to theirs, and one of us asks, ‘can I have that recipe?’.  Sometimes the recipe is from a cookbook, or website, and then it’s easy, they look it up and either have success or not, but when you give someone a recipe you […]

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  • April 8, 2014 - 9:26 pm

    Alisa - I loved this post. It reminded me of the Judy Blume book Frecklejuice. I also appreciated the clarification about the chopped pecans. I always wonder about this in recipes and just guess. Now I can do it right.ReplyCancel

    • April 9, 2014 - 9:16 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Alisa,
      Glad you liked it! I didn’t read Frecklejuice, maybe I should check it out. That measuring thing is one thing I look for when I’m considering buying a cookbook- are their directions for things like this clear?ReplyCancel

There is a certain allure to Chinese take-out. Movies and television shows are filled with images of conference and coffee tables littered with open, stained Chinese take-out food containers. The characters sit among a sea of these containers, digging in with chopsticks, and talking with their mouths full. In fact scenes like this pepper so […]

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  • September 28, 2015 - 10:06 am

    Comfort Food » Chefs Last Diet - […] Take-out Chinese food has been a constant in my life, and I still turn to it when I am too tired to cook, or don’t manage to get to the store. I rarely order shrimp with lobster sauce, that is for emergency purposes only, and though it’s never as good as I remember it being, when it’s in a bowl, poured over fried rice it calms me in the most primal way.  I close my eyes and spoon this mess into my mouth and I am a little girl and there are people who will fix everything for me. When I open my eyes I return to reality and I am standing alone in my kitchen, holding my blue bowl, eating lousy food, and hoping for something magical to happen. […]ReplyCancel

  • November 28, 2016 - 8:10 pm

    Life Moves Fast These Days » Chefs Last Diet - […] Chinese Take-out […]ReplyCancel

As March ends so does a month of kale, quinoa and chicken. Some recipes more successful than others, all fun, and I’m glad to be moving on to April, or am I? After this endless, snowy, dreary, cold, really endless, winter, which I seem to have spent 99% of in my kitchen, cooking and eating, […]

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  • March 31, 2014 - 2:01 pm

    Jhanis - I’ve never had Green Tea and White Chocolate Chunk Cookies in my entire life. Or any green cookie at all! So it sounds interesting! Good luck on the challenge Nancy! I have to admit, I really need to cut down on sugar too. 🙁ReplyCancel

  • March 31, 2014 - 8:32 pm

    Kat - Good luck on your April challenge! Cutting out sugar is SO hard and you like many of the things that I’d have a hard time giving up too.

    Those cookies look really interesting. The colour of them is kind of odd (green) but I bet that they are delicious once you get past the green 🙂ReplyCancel

  • April 1, 2014 - 8:58 am

    Deborah Wiley - Green tea and white chocolate in a cookie!
    Perfect for the first day of April.
    Thank you!ReplyCancel

  • February 29, 2016 - 8:22 pm

    Jane - hmmm! the pictures says it all. It’s Y U M M Y!ReplyCancel

I recall living in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, and going to the Middle Eastern restaurants on Atlantic Avenue to have chicken bisteeya. It is a marvelous dish, and one I haven’t made at home before. Though it isn’t difficult, it is time consuming and working with filo dough can be challenging. If you’re not familiar […]

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  • March 28, 2014 - 9:02 pm

    Sarah @ Thank You Honey - Thanks for sharing Nancy on Whatever Wednesday at Thank You Honey! Have a fabulous weekend! Hope to see you next week!ReplyCancel

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