Shavuot: Festival of Milk and Honey (2010 menu)

Gnocchi Pomodoro (recipe linked below) Shavuot is an annual Jewish festival of dual significance. Agriculturally, it commemorates the time when the first fruits were harvested and brought to the Temple, historically, it also celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. To mark Shavuot 

Mother’s Day Menu 2010

Birds in my mother’s garden (May 2010) Happy Mother’s Day everyone. Hope it is a happy and safe one 🙂 Am getting an early pre-dawn start on this year’s menu 🙂 • Fresh Green Bean Salad • Fillet A La Veracruzana (Rachael Ray Show) • 

Passover Menu 2010

Passover 2010 falls this year on the evening of March 29th. Even though it is some time aways I have already receiving requests for recipes, as well as for local seders. At the moment I am not sure if my health currently allows me to 

Valentine’s Day Menu 2010

Dessert, Valentine’s Day Dinner 2009 – Chaconia Inn Last year, J and I stepped out in style (or so we thought) to the Chaconia Inn for what we hoped would be a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner. Boy were we wrong. Unfortunately we ended up leaving 

Tu B’Shevat (New Year For The Trees) Menu 2010

Chive Blossoms – our garden Tonight marks the start of Tu B’Shevat, one of my favourite holidays on the Jewish calendar. There’s something whimsical and life-affirming about having a New Year’s celebration for the environment and the seder (religious) service which accompanies it has a 

Passover 2009 Menu

The past two weeks have been a blur, and I’ve fallen behind on food events and posts. Not that I haven’t been cooking, but finding time to sort and edit has been sorely lacking. In due in no small part to my having a heavier 

Valentine’s Day Menu 2009

Valentine’s Day Menu 2009

Some simple and quick recipes that I’ve enjoyed and hope you will as well. I myself, won’t be cooking this Valentine’s as J and I are heading out to dine. I will however have camera in tow, as where there is food, there is a 

Jason’s Kosher Antipasto Platter

Sunday October 19, was my sweetie’s birthday and I wanted to do something special for him to mark the occasion. Last year I went all out so I felt some pressure to not lower the bar this time around. The only problem was that the 

Rosh Hashana & Eid 2008: A Holiday Week in Review

Wow, so much went on last week! With Rosh Hashana and Eid overlapping this year I decided to cook up a storm! So what did I make? Here were my menus for each day. Raisin Challah Day 1 – Rosh Hashana menu Honey Raisin Challah 

Independence Day Menu 2007

Happy Independence Day to all the Trini readers and passersby 😀 Hard to believe but our nation has now been free of colonial rule for 45 years! 😀 My menu inspiration today is the old red, white, and black. I’ll be making: • Sarina’s Independence 

Mother’s Day 2007!

I’m sitting here watching a Japanese chef on Discovery Travel & Living and finishing up my menu plan for this Mother’s Day. We’re gonna be having the following for a late lunch, and Tuesday mom and I will have a girl’s day out to see 

Lag B’Omer – Picnics are Fun!

One thing that many people (both Jewish and non-Jewish) don’t know is how many holidays and festivals there are in the Jewish calendar. Although the best known celebration is Hannukah (because of the proximity it shares at times to Christmas), Hannukah is actually a relatively 

Trinidad Hot Baked Fish, ‘Bang Bang Salsa’, and Caribbean Rice and Peas

Trinidad Hot Baked Fish, ‘Bang Bang Salsa’, and Caribbean Rice and Peas

This is what I made for dinner last weekend 🙂 Trinidad Hot Baked Fish, “Bang Bang’ Salsa (kudos to Marsha for putting me back into a Dave Koz frame of mind, and Caribbean Rice and Peas (from a recipe that I developed for Nandita at 

Corn, Callaloo and Sorrell

Corn, Callaloo and Sorrell

A true inter-generational feast. My aunt’s sweet corn casserole, my mother’s callaloo, and my sorrel rum punch. All together on the same stage 😀