This coming Monday is Memorial Day, which is the unofficial start of summer, and Lag BaOmer, which was this week, plays a similar role on the Jewish calendar. More importantly it signals the start of grilling* season, although I personally believe if you try hard enough, any season is grilling season. The staple of any … [Read more…]
Giveaway Before we get to the dish on Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship, don’t forget to enter our giveaway for the new cookbook Perfect Flavors: Creative, easy-to-prepare recipes inspired by my family and travels by Naomi Nachman: a Rafflecopter giveaway * Destination: Dallas About 3 weeks ago Rachel, Elliott (Rachel’s husband) and I headed down to … [Read more…]
Giveaway Before I get to the “dish” on the Dallas Kosher BBQ Championship, don’t forget to enter our giveaway for the new cookbook Perfect Flavors: Creative, easy-to-prepare recipes inspired by my family and travels by Naomi Nachman! a Rafflecopter giveaway * The Dish on Dallas Debbie didn’t do Dallas. At least not this year. 🙂 … [Read more…]
Giveaway Before we get into my epicurean adventures in the Seattle don’t forget to enter our giveaway for the cookbook Millennial Kosher by Chanie Apfelbaum of the amazing kosher food blog Busy In Brooklyn a Rafflecopter giveaway Hello Seattle For Labor Day weekend my friends Ari and Jessica Hoffman invited me to come out an visit … [Read more…]
Hang on folks because this one is a bit long (at least for my posts). If you like BBQ I promise it is worth it. If you make it to the end your patience will be rewarded with an award-winning rib recipe (or you could just scroll down to the recipe, I won’t tell). Back … [Read more…]
I have been meaning to get this post out for a while, but it was a pretty crazy summer and life got in the way. Back on June 25th, 2017, Rachel and I competed in the 2nd Annual St. Louis Kosher BBQ competition hosted by Nusach Hari B’nai Zion (NHBZ) under the banner of our kosher … [Read more…]
Last Sunday Rachel, Elliott (Rachel’s husband), and I went to the International Home + Housewares Show at McCormick Place on Chicago’s Museum Campus. For those of you not from around these parts, McCormick Place is the nation’s largest convention center with 2,600,000 square feet of prime exhibit space. Needless to say there was an insane amount of … [Read more…]
So what you may not know is Rachel and I have a kosher BBQ team known as 5 Dudes and a Vegetarian and until recently I was living in condo where I could not grill or smoke. On the first of the year I finally moved in to a house, and I bought myself a new grill and … [Read more…]
In honor of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim I challenged Rachel to hamantaschen throw down. I figure I should be able to best her easily, as they are usually high in sugar and carbs which are Kryptonite to my compadre. While hamantaschen usually take the form of a sweet triangular cookie, I went in a completely different direction creating … [Read more…]
This is a great all purpose sauce that takes advantage of that special something you get from the 23 secret flavors that are combined to make Dr. Pepper. If you don’t want to take the time to reduce Dr. Pepper to syrup you can use Soda Stream’s Dr. Peter Sparkling Drink Mix. I love this … [Read more…]