Susie Fishbein’s Wild Mushroom Velouté Soup for Passover Recipe

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A special thank you to Susie Fishbein for sharing this delicious sounding kosher for Passover mushroom soup recipe with the KOAB audience! A velouté is a thickened soup, similar to a bisque. It is quick-cooking and so simple to prepare. In some markets, the wild mushrooms are packaged together. You can just buy 18-20 ounces [...]

Passover Recipe Round-Up

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As I continue to work on my seder menu, I thought I’d put together a quick round-up of all the Passover and Passover-friendly recipes I’ve shared here on KOAB over the last year and a half. Roasted Zucchini and Eggplant Salsa from Rivki at Kosher Cooking for Ordinary People Chilled Berry Soup – This is [...]

Charoset for Passover Recipe

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PHOTO CREDIT: Flickr Creative Commons If you’re on Facebook or Twitter with me, you know that I’ve been in the kitchen today cooking for Pesach – and I’ve definitely got a lot of company out there in internetland. Next on my to-do list is the seder plate “stuff”. The eggs are boiled, the potatoes are [...]

Passover Recipes: Vegetable Kugel, Matzah Lasagna, Oven-Baked Matzah Brie

Kugel with zucchini, sweet potato, red potato, onion and squash

We are in the Leil HaSeder home stretch, so I thought we could use one last Pesach recipe post. I’m breaking with tradition and posting this on Thursday, since I figure most of us need all the time we can get (maybe I’m just projecting, though?!). Anyway, today I’m sharing not one, but THREE, recipes [...]

KOAB Recipe Exchange: Pesach Dessert (Levana Cooks!)

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Today’s recipe exchange is kind of an unusual one for me. Typically, I share one of my personal favorite recipes, but today I have the honor of sharing a Passover recipe from the well-known Jewish cookbook author, restaurateur, and kosher food blogger, Lévana Kirschenbaum. Chocolate Walnut Brownies The Passover version of this timeless classic is [...]

How I Learned to Love Passover by Eating Like an Israeli (Guest Post)

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Today’s guest post comes from KOAB reader Becky Goldberg. Like many of us, Becky used to dread Passover food… until she learned to eat like the Israelis. I used to hate Passover. There, I said it. It was, without a doubt, the time of year I dreaded most. I had tried recreating wonderful childhood memories [...]

Passover Side Dishes

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I’m in denial. Pesach is two and a half weeks away and I haven’t even made my  menu plan yet! Uhh… Meat? Vegetables? Matzah ball soup? DE.NIAL. Now I don’t know about you, but I find that by the time we get to the actual meal, I am so … weighted down… with all the [...]

Red Cabbage Salad

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I got some great ideas from all of you on Facebook last night for Recipe Exchange themes. Thank you, thank you! Rest assured, I will get to all of them. But today I am starting with salads – specifically, I’m thinking about the Shabbat salad course. But really, any yummy salad recipe you’ve got is [...]