Category Archives: Dairy

Chocolate chip cookies are generally not pareve.

6th
Oct. × ’09
By Cheryl Katz

My daughter Sami and I made chocolate chip cookies last night.
I was out of butter, so we actually used coconut oil as our fat, which worked well, yielding a crispier cookie with added bonus hint of coconut flavor!
Not that I’d specifically set out to make pareve cookies, but I sort of got excited about the [...]

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Mindfulness.

1st
Sep. × ’09
By Cheryl Katz

In my last post, about omelettes, I ribbed on myself for cutting my teeth on easily kosher-ized recipes.
But something I’ve been percolating on lately is what kashrut is really all about, and I think that I obliquely touched on a piece of it in that last post.
To make a kosher meat omelette, one needs to [...]

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L’omelette Brouillée first try: The ugliest thing ever to be called an “omelette.”

27th
Aug. × ’09
By Cheryl Katz

Last night I was in the market for a simple, filling dinner. What ho! In skimming through Mastering, I was seized by Julia’s mention that omelettes take “less than half a minute to make,” making them “ideal for a quick meal.”
I don’t know how a book from 50 years ago read my mind, [...]

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Crépes Florentine; Gotta start somewhere.

5th
Aug. × ’09
By Cheryl Katz

I’ve been working through ideas for this project in my head for a week now, but it’s time to take the plunge and start writing.
So, here goes!
Inspired by Julie and Julia, the memoir by Julie Powell and new film featuring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams; as well as by an enduring love of food, cooking, [...]

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